Preposition Stranding: From Syntactic to Functional Analyses

✍ Scribed by Ken-ichi Takami

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 316
• Series: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]; 7
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Preposition Stranding in VPs or Ss
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Arguments against the syntactic analyses of Hornstein – Weinberg (1981) and Chomsky (1981, 1986b)
2.3. Arguments against some other syntactic analyses
2.4. An alternative functional explanation
2.5. Functional approaches to preposition stranding in NPs
2.6. Concluding remarks
Chapter 3. Preposition Stranding in NPs
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Previous syntactic analyses and their problems
3.3. An alternative functional explanation
3.4. Other functional approaches to preposition stranding in NPs
3.5. Concluding remarks
Chapter 4. Pseudo-Passives
4.1. Introduction
4.2. A review of syntactic analyses: reanalysis and five pieces of evidence
4.3. Arguments against the above syntactic analyses
4.4. A critical review of some functional analyses
4.5. An alternative functional explanation
4.6. Pseudo-passives and single-verb passives
4.7. Concluding remarks
Chapter 5. Tough-Movement on Prepositional Phrases
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Review of previous syntactic analyses
5.3. The functional explanation of Riddle et al. (1977)
5.4. An alternative functional explanation
5.5. Concluding remarks
5.6. A unifying look at chapters 2 to 5
Chapter 6. The Violin-Sonata Paradox Revisited
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Previous syntactic analyses and their problems
6.3. An alternative explanation
6.4. Concluding remarks
Chapter 7. Stranding of Displaced Prepositions
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Syntactic analyses by Hornstein – Weinberg (1981) and Baltin (1984)
7.3. Problems with the above syntactic analyses
7.4. An alternative functional explanation
7.5. Concluding remarks
Chapter 8. Preposition Stranding in Danish and Swedish
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Danish and Swedish preposition stranding in VPs or Ss and in NPs
8.3. Pseudo-passives in Swedish
8.4. Concluding remarks
Chapter 9. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects