Objectless locative prepositions in British English

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4551

Keywords:

locative prepositions, silent complements, have/with, British English, R-pronouns, crossing dependencies

Abstract

In British English, sentences like This film has monsters in are possible without the pronoun it. Descriptively, we refine landscape of the phenomenon, identifying restrictions on the distribution and interpretation of OLPs, including dialectal variation within British English, and observing an A-bar movement restriction on monsters. Analytically, we argue against an A-movement analysis (Griffiths & Sailor), and ponder alternatives from a cross-linguistic perspective.

Author Biographies

  • Richard Stockwell, University of California, Los Angeles
    Linguistics Dept.
  • Carson T. Schütze, University of California, Los Angeles
    Linguistics Dept.

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Published

2019-03-15

How to Cite

Stockwell, Richard, and Carson T. Schütze. 2019. “Objectless Locative Prepositions in British English”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 4 (1): 48:1–15. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4551.