If nouns can function adverbially (e.g., "She left yesterday", "I'm 
leaving tommorrow night"), then "home" is a noun funcitoning 
adverbially. A nice case to argue for splitting form from function. 
"Locative complement" is an adverbial slot; PPs can be there: "We took a 
trip to the zoo"; and adverbs with other adverby meanings, can be there: 
"Celine will take a trip soon".

I don't know what to do with examples like "journey homeward", "way 
south", "an hour later", and "the week past". Only some of these can 
play switcheroo: "our homeward journey", "the past week", but *"a later 
hour" (different meaning), *"the south way".

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