Fwd: 24.3186, Diss: Welsh, Syntax: Hirata: 'Preposition Stranding in Welsh'

Wed Aug 7 14:56:14 UTC 2013

FYI - A new dissertation on Welsh preposition stranding was announced on LinguistList.

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> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:31:49
> From: Ryuichiro Hirata [ryuichirohirata at gmail.com]
> Subject: Preposition Stranding in Welsh
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> Institution: Bangor University 
> Program: PhD in Linguistics 
> Dissertation Status: Completed 
> Degree Date: 2012 
> 
> Author: Ryuichiro Hirata
> 
> Dissertation Title: Preposition Stranding in Welsh 
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> Dissertation URL:  http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/001868
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> Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
> 
> Subject Language(s): Welsh (cym)
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> Dissertation Director(s):
> Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto
> Dirk Bury
> Pam McDonald
> 
> Dissertation Abstract:
> 
> This dissertation investigates preposition stranding observed in Colloquial
> Welsh using a generative grammar approach.
> 
> Welsh traditionally disallows P-stranding. In Literary Welsh, prepositional
> relatives require a resumptive pronoun which is licensed by the rich
> agreement of P, and wh-questions require pied-piping of the entire PP.
> However, the use of uninflected stranded preposition can be found
> colloquially, both in relatives and wh-questions.
> 
> This dissertation proposes an account of the different syntactic behaviour
> between the two varieties, based on the notion of PF feature checking
> proposed by Ackema and Neeleman (2004). I claim that if PF checking takes
> place between a P head and its DP complement, the DP will be unable to move
> out of the complement position. This means that P-stranding is impossible.
> On the other hand, if PF checking does not hold between P and its
> complement, P-stranding is possible.
> 
> Chapter 1 provides theoretical assumptions and background of previous
> research on P-stranding.
> 
> Chapter 2 describes wh-constructions in Welsh and investigates the
> (un)availability of P-stranding in the literary and colloquial varieties.
> 
> Chapter 3 considers formal properties of Welsh resumptives. Following
> Willis (2011), I assume that Welsh wh-dependencies with resumptive pronouns
> obey successive cyclicity.
> 
> Chapter 4 presents the PF feature checking approach to P-stranding. I
> assume that the crucial difference between the two varieties is that P in
> Literary Welsh possesses AGR-features, but in Colloquial Welsh does not. I
> claim that the availability of PF checking regulates the availability of
> P-stranding.
> 
> Chapter 5 investigates P-stranding generalizations, observed in Abels
> (2003), on pseudo-passives, clitics, verbal particles and sluicing.
> 
> Chapter 6 discusses diachronic implications of the occurrence of
> P-stranding. I consider how the P-stranding option came into Welsh grammar,
> using the notion of bilingual mode developed by Grosjean (2001).
> 
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