rarity of preposition stranding

Mon Oct 4 07:57:53 UTC 2010

On Oct 4, 2010, at 4:03 AM, Angus B. Grieve-Smith wrote:

> Again, this is just armchair speculation on my part. Is there a functional account of preposition stranding published anywhere?
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> 				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
> 				grvsmth at panix.com
There is a brief discussion of preposition stranding in my 2005 book, Exploring the syntax-semantics interface (§5.4.3), along with references to other functional accounts.

Robert Van Valin