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This paper is an exploration of the internal structure of the complex locational PP in English. Reviewing its standard analysis provided in Radford (1988), it points out a problem with the analysis. In section two,then, it reviews Baker's (1989) observation of major properties of the complex locational PP and his quite descriptive phrase-structure rules to account for them, and points out that those rules are not subject to the X-bar theory. In section three, it explores ways to account for the properties in a more principled way amenable to the X-bar theory. It suggests a cartographic structure comprising functional categories representing the concepts of "restoring", "path" and "distance" that can dominate locational PPs. In section four, it argues and shows that back is a preposition optionally requiring a PP complement only. Finally, in section 5, it summarizes the discussion and presents remaining problems.