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The English compound preposition into, as in He went into the shop, is not formed in the way that it is interpreted. Its semantic interpretation, [TO [IN [SHOP: DEF]]], is constructed in the reverse order of its two components in and to. A growing body of analyses of this opposite nature assumes that one component (in) is incorporated into the other (to) to form the compound preposition (into). This paper addresses and discusses issues that arise from this incorporation theory with respect to modification, complementation and alternation. It argues that the preposition is not incorporated at the level of phrasal syntax, but listed in the lexicon through associations between its two components and their modular properties. It also offers an analysis of the lexical item in the spirit of both parallel architecture of grammar and relational morphology.