The Parameter of Preposition Stranding: A View From Child English

In this squib we examine the time course of children's acquisition of English to evaluate the basic insights of Kayne's (1981; 1984) proposals on preposition stranding. Kayne argued that the availability of preposition stranding (P-stranding) in English is parametrically linked to the avai...

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Published inLanguage acquisition Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 349 - 361
Main Authors Sugisaki, Koji, Snyder, William
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Mahwah Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc 01.10.2006
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Psychology Press
Subjects
Binomials
Child Language
Child psychology
Children
English language
Form Classes (Languages)
Grammatical constructions
Language Acquisition
Language Patterns
Linguistic complements
Linguistics
Prepositions
Squibs and Replies
Statistical analysis
Syntactics
Verbs
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Summary:In this squib we examine the time course of children's acquisition of English to evaluate the basic insights of Kayne's (1981; 1984) proposals on preposition stranding. Kayne argued that the availability of preposition stranding (P-stranding) in English is parametrically linked to the availability of double object datives and the prepositional complementizer (PC) construction. We demonstrate that acquisitional evidence lends support to one component of Kayne's proposal, namely, that Universal Grammar (UG) contains a parameter that makes natural-language grammars permitting the PC construction a proper subset of those permitting P-stranding.
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ISSN:1048-9223
1532-7817
DOI:10.1207/s15327817la1304_4