Objectless locative prepositions in British English
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https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4551Keywords:
locative prepositions, silent complements, have/with, British English, R-pronouns, crossing dependenciesAbstract
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.Downloads
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2019-03-15
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Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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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.