English elliptical constructions allow an alternation between remnants with prepositions and remnants\u00a0without prepositions when the remnants\u2019 correlates are prepositional phrases (A: I\u2019m here for the audition. B: Which audition? \/ For which audition?).\u00a0I dub this alternation ellipsis\u00a0alternation.\u00a0This alternation is found outside English, and available crosslinguistic data show that remnants with\u00a0prepositions are more acceptable than remnants without prepositions (Rodrigues et al. 2009, Merchant\u00a0et al. 2013, Nykiel 2013). However, English doesn’t follow this pattern in the sense that remnants\u00a0without prepositions have higher frequencies than remnants with prepositions (Nykiel 2016).\u00a0This raises two questions, which I address in this talk: (1) why remnants with prepositions should\u00a0be the crosslinguisticallly more common option, and (2) why this is not the case in English.\u00a0I propose a processing account of ellipsis alternation, arguing that it is best suited for handling\u00a0English data and the available crosslinguistic data in terms of both the availability of this alternation\u00a0and the frequency of remnants with prepositions vs. the frequency of remnants without prepositions.\u00a0The data collected for this study total 411 items\u00a0harvested\u00a0from three corpora of spoken American English\u00a0and analyzed by means of binary logistic regression and conditional inference trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Processing preferences and ellipsis alternation Joanna Nykiel (Uniwersytet \u015al\u0105ski) English elliptical constructions allow an alternation between remnants with prepositions and remnants\u00a0without prepositions when the remnants\u2019 correlates are prepositional phrases (A: … Continue reading 22.04.2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhlunch.ijppan.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}