Abstract
This article provides an analysis of the prepositional phrases of Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, an Eastern Algonquian language of New Brunswick and Maine. It establishes that these phrases may function as constituents, even though they are frequently discontinuously expressed, demonstrates that they are headed by the particles that characterize them, and explores their internal structure. This structure is shown to be parallel to that of noun phrases in the language: phrases of both types include an optional determiner that is sister to a subconstituent consisting of the head and any complement it may take, together with any modifiers. These conclusions are of interest since Algonquian languages have been suspected of lacking hierarchical constituent structure.
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