TY - CHAP
T1 - Preposition Stranding
AU - Law, Paul
N1 - Research Unit(s) information for this publication is provided by the author(s) concerned.
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - This chapter surveys the phenomena of preposition stranding primarily in Romance and Germanic languages, reviewing the literature on the phenomenon spanning more than 40 years of research since the late 1960s. It discusses the insights and problems of three major theories of preposition stranding: (i) the reanalysis account, according to which preposition stranding results from the verb and the preposition being reanalyzed as one morphological unit; (ii) government‐theoretic accounts, according to which preposition stranding is permitted only if complements to verbs and prepositions are governed in the same way; and (iii) the D‐to‐P incorporation theory, in which prepositions may be stranded if D is not incorporated into P. Some languages in the Slavic, Turkic, Sinitic, Altaic, and Austronesian language families are briefly considered in the light of their not having D and not allowing preposition stranding.
AB - This chapter surveys the phenomena of preposition stranding primarily in Romance and Germanic languages, reviewing the literature on the phenomenon spanning more than 40 years of research since the late 1960s. It discusses the insights and problems of three major theories of preposition stranding: (i) the reanalysis account, according to which preposition stranding results from the verb and the preposition being reanalyzed as one morphological unit; (ii) government‐theoretic accounts, according to which preposition stranding is permitted only if complements to verbs and prepositions are governed in the same way; and (iii) the D‐to‐P incorporation theory, in which prepositions may be stranded if D is not incorporated into P. Some languages in the Slavic, Turkic, Sinitic, Altaic, and Austronesian language families are briefly considered in the light of their not having D and not allowing preposition stranding.
U2 - 10.1002/9781118358733.wbsyncom037
DO - 10.1002/9781118358733.wbsyncom037
M3 - RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)
SN - 9781118358726
VL - V
T3 - The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Linguistics
SP - 3164
EP - 3202
BT - The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax
A2 - Everaert, Martin
A2 - van Riemsdijk , Henk C.
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
CY - Hoboken, NJ
ER -