TY  - JOUR
A1  - Radford, Andrew
A1  - Felser, Claudia
A1  - Boxell, Oliver
T1  - Preposition copying and pruning in present-day English
JF  - English language and linguistics
N2  - This article investigates the nature of preposition copying and preposition pruning structures in present-day English. We begin by illustrating the two phenomena and consider how they might be accounted for in syntactic terms, and go on to explore the possibility that preposition copying and pruning arise for processing reasons. We then report on two acceptability judgement experiments examining the extent to which native speakers of English are sensitive to these types of 'error' in language comprehension. Our results indicate that preposition copying creates redundancy rather than ungrammaticality, whereas preposition pruning creates processing problems for comprehenders that may render it unacceptable in timed (but not necessarily in untimed) judgement tasks. Our findings furthermore illustrate the usefulness of combining corpus studies and experimentally elicited data for gaining a clearer picture of usage and acceptability, and the potential benefits of examining syntactic phenomena from both a theoretical and a processing perspective.
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674312000172
SN  - 1360-6743
VL  - 16
IS  - 2
SP  - 403
EP  - 426
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - Cambridge
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Radford, Andrew
A1  - Felser, Claudia
A1  - Boxell, Oliver
T1  - Preposition copying and pruning in present-day English
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - This article investigates the nature of preposition copying and preposition pruning structures in present-day English. We begin by illustrating the two phenomena and consider how they might be accounted for in syntactic terms, and go on to explore the possibility that preposition copying and pruning arise for processing reasons. We then report on two acceptability judgement experiments examining the extent to which native speakers of English are sensitive to these types of 'error' in language comprehension. Our results indicate that preposition copying creates redundancy rather than ungrammaticality, whereas preposition pruning creates processing problems for comprehenders that may render it unacceptable in timed (but not necessarily in untimed) judgement tasks. Our findings furthermore illustrate the usefulness of combining corpus studies and experimentally elicited data for gaining a clearer picture of usage and acceptability, and the potential benefits of examining syntactic phenomena from both a theoretical and a processing perspective.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 527 
KW  - syntactic blends
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414898
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 527
ER  -