22.1059, Qs: Preposition Stranding in Right Node Raising

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Subject: 22.1059, Qs: Preposition Stranding in Right Node Raising

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Date: 03-Mar-2011
From: Lena Ibnbari [ibnbari at bgu.ac.il]
Subject: Preposition Stranding in Right Node Raising
 

	
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Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:25:34
From: Lena Ibnbari [ibnbari at bgu.ac.il]
Subject: Preposition Stranding in Right Node Raising

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English allows Preposition stranding (P-stranding) in Right Node 
Raising (RNR):
 
(a)   Girls arrived with, and/but boys arrived without a textbook.
(b)   John left before, and/but Mary left after the chairman's speech.
(c)   The cat sat on, and the dog lied under the bed.

Russian also allows such sentences:
(d)  Petja zabolel   do _,   a     Ma?a   zabolela  posle èkzamena.
     Peter fell-ill  before   but  Masha  fell-ill   after the-exam

The preposition can be present in the second conjunct only:
(e)   Mary ignored, but John spoke to the boss.
(f)   Petja prosto ne    zametil _, a    Olja   tak   naro?no        ne   
      Peter just   neg.  noticed    but  Olya   part. intentionally  neg. 

        obratila  vnimanija   na    razbitoje okno.
        paid      attention   on    broken    window
'Peter just didn't notice, but Olya intentionally didn't pay attention to the 
broken window.'

If the single preposition is stranded in the first conjunct, however, the 
result is still good in English but bad in Russian:
(g)   John spoke to, but Mary ignored the boss.
(h)   *Olja naro?no        ne   obratila  vnimanija  na _ , 
       Olya intentionally  neg. paid      attention  on     
 
        a     Petja prosto  ne    uvidel   razbitoje  okno.
        and   Peter just    neg.  saw      broken     window
Intended: 'Olya intentionally didn't pay attention to, and Peter just didn't 
see a broken window.'

I'm interested to learn how other languages behave in these 
environments. Do you speak an English-type language in which all of 
these examples are good? A Russian-type language in which (a-f) are 
good but (g)-(h) are bad? A different type of language?  

I'm especially curious about the data in Scandinavian languages, but 
also Romance languages. I'll be grateful for any relevant data or 
comments.

Looking forward, 
Lena Ibnbari. 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


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