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3 - Prepositional Relatives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2019

Andrew Radford
Affiliation:
University of Essex
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This chapter will be concerned with prepositional relatives that involve doubled and intrusive prepositions, and with evaluating a number of different accounts of these. I begin by looking at preposition doubling, outlining and evaluating two alternative syntactic analyses (a copying account in §3.2, and a splitting account in §3.3) before going on to investigate intrusive prepositions in §3.4. I then turn to present and evaluate a sociolinguistic account of preposition doubling in terms of hypercorrection in §3.5, before going on to look at processing accounts of preposition doubling and intrusion in §3.6 and presenting experimental evidence. I conclude the chapter with a brief summary of my main findings in §3.7.

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Relative Clauses
Structure and Variation in Everyday English
, pp. 132 - 190
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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