Suggested answer for Exercise 12

(1)	a.	Julie met the student of Physics from France and I met the one from Spain
	b.	*John knows the student of Physics from France and I know the one of English from Spain.
(2)	a.	Julie met a student of Physics of considerable intelligence.
	b.	*Julie met a student of considerable intelligence of Physics.
(3)	a.	Julie met a student of Physics and of Mathematics.
	b.	*Julie met a student of Physics and of considerable intelligence.

The noun student has a PP complement. The PP complement contains a preposition and a DP that is understood as the object of student. The prepositional phrase of considerable intelligence is interpreted as an adjunct.

(i) In sentences (1) the indefinite pronoun one is introduced in the second clause. Pronouns in general have the same distribution as Determiner Phrases (DPs) have. In fact pronouns are analysed as heads of DPs that do not take NP argument. One seems to have different distribution as it excludes the definite article as sentence (1a) illustrates and it covers the head and the complement as is shown in (1b). (1b) is ungrammatical as the pronoun is substituted in the position of the noun head and excludes the complement PP between the adjunct PP and the article.

(ii) In sentences (2) the contrast is due to the strict order of the adjunct PP and the complement PP. Complements are always closer to the head than adjuncts in English. In sentence (2a) the complement immediately follows the head, while in (2b) the adjunct follows the head hence the sentence is ungrammatical.

(iii) In sentence (3a) both PPs can be interpreted as the complement of the head, therefore they can be coordinated and as coordinated PPs, they can be understood as the complement of the head. In sentence (3b) the adjunct PP and the complement PP are coordinated and that renders the sentence ungrammatical. The adjunct and the complement have different statuses in the DP, therefore they cannot be coordinated.