Preposition Stranding : From Syntactic to Functional Analyses.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Preposition Stranding in VPs or Ss -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Arguments against the syntactic analyses of Hornstein - Weinberg (1981) and Chomsky (1981, 1986b) -- 2.3. Arguments against some other syntactic analyses -- 2.4. An alternative functional explanation -- 2.5. Functional approaches to preposition stranding in NPs -- 2.6. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 3. Preposition Stranding in NPs -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Previous syntactic analyses and their problems -- 3.3. An alternative functional explanation -- 3.4. Other functional approaches to preposition stranding in NPs -- 3.5. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 4. Pseudo-Passives -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. A review of syntactic analyses: reanalysis and five pieces of evidence -- 4.3. Arguments against the above syntactic analyses -- 4.4. A critical review of some functional analyses -- 4.5. An alternative functional explanation -- 4.6. Pseudo-passives and single-verb passives -- 4.7. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 5. Tough-Movement on Prepositional Phrases -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Review of previous syntactic analyses -- 5.3. The functional explanation of Riddle et al. (1977) -- 5.4. An alternative functional explanation -- 5.5. Concluding remarks -- 5.6. A unifying look at chapters 2 to 5 -- Chapter 6. The Violin-Sonata Paradox Revisited -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Previous syntactic analyses and their problems -- 6.3. An alternative explanation -- 6.4. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 7. Stranding of Displaced Prepositions -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Syntactic analyses by Hornstein - Weinberg (1981) and Baltin (1984) -- 7.3. Problems with the above syntactic analyses -- 7.4. An alternative functional explanation -- 7.5. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 8. Preposition Stranding in Danish and Swedish -- 8.1. Introduction.

8.2. Danish and Swedish preposition stranding in VPs or Ss and in NPs -- 8.3. Pseudo-passives in Swedish -- 8.4. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

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