Thanks!!To be honest Rodineye, even though I don't see myself ever learning your language, I hope you manage to get some traction with this project of yours. You've obviously put a lot of effort into it and I respect that.
English does it too, with "at"/"in" in sentences like I am in/at school. Many other languages do it in other ways.If I were a criminal, stealing stuff could well be what I would normally normally do in shops. But anyway, why would we even need separate prepositions for shoppers and shoplifters? Why do you feel such a strong desire to let your prepositions encode not only location, but at also what people are doing at that location. Not even English (maybe the most prepositions-heavy language in the world...) does that.
The complement of event/situation exists, so does it seem logical to you to just forget about it?
What are the next verb complements to you?
I am in a hurry
I am in trouble
even:
I am under arrest
The law is under scrutiny
or:
The project is under development
...
To me, they are complements of event/situation. You can see how English uses different prepositions, with "in" or "under" being quite common. So this complement exists. Apart from these obvious examples, it is used as well when you want to specify that you are doing an activity in a location, related to that location.
It is logical and easy to use. Everyone knows what a situation is! And no, stealing things is not a usual thing to do in a shop, or it should not be.
Verb complements help the speaker to organize the information they have and they want to express, which I think is essential in order to create and in order to understand. That is why I pay a lot of attention to well defined and logical verb complements, because they are essential.
All the bullshit has been taken off. No prepositional verbs, not needed. Prepositions can introduce different verb complements. But there is a reality there about situations/events that need an answer. Same with the "o" preposition marking complements of quantity. It is funny how we understand the use of "o" because we can see its existance when using interrogative questions, but some people struggle to see that the situation complement exists too!
Anyway, preposition "i", as I said, is the unmarked version, so people not willing to use "e" or having difficulties will have no problem in using "i". They will probably want to use it later on.