Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions

This study attempts to explain a systematic phenomenon that has been described in interlanguage grammars crosslinguistically: Null-Prep, which consists of omitting the obligatory preposition in certain movement constructions. We propose that Null-Prep is not related to lack of knowledge of wh-moveme...

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Autores: Perpiñán, Sílvia, Cardinaletti, Anna
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56493
https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02676583221132198
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Palabra clave:Null-Prep
Llenguatge i llengües--Gramàtiques
Llengua segona--Adquisició
Interllengües
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spelling Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructionsPerpiñán, SílviaCardinaletti, AnnaNull-PrepLlenguatge i llengües--GramàtiquesLlengua segona--AdquisicióInterllengüesThis study attempts to explain a systematic phenomenon that has been described in interlanguage grammars crosslinguistically: Null-Prep, which consists of omitting the obligatory preposition in certain movement constructions. We propose that Null-Prep is not related to lack of knowledge of wh-movement, as previously assumed, but to structural complexity; indeed, we consider Null-Prep a movement-derived structure. With evidence from prepositional relative clauses, wh-interrogatives, and sluicing constructions in L1 and L2 Spanish (English and Arabic L1s), we predict the potential appearance of the Null-Prep with a two-way complexity hierarchy that takes into account the syntactic position displaced, as well as its derivational complexity, in such a way that we calculate Null-Prep to occur more often in Relative Clauses, followed by Sluicing, and finally by Questions. This scalar phenomenon uniformly applies to all participants, native and L2 learners, emphasizing its universal nature.SAGE Publications202320232022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/56493https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02676583221132198reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésSecond Language Research. 2022. 42 p. DOI: 10.1177/02676583221132198Perpiñán S, Cardinaletti A, Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: Evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions, Second Language Research, 42 p. Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). DOI: 10.1177/02676583221132198info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/564932026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions
spellingShingle Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions
Perpiñán, Sílvia
Null-Prep
Llenguatge i llengües--Gramàtiques
Llengua segona--Adquisició
Interllengües
title_short Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions
title_full Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions
title_fullStr Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions
title_full_unstemmed Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions
title_sort Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Perpiñán, Sílvia
Cardinaletti, Anna
author Perpiñán, Sílvia
author_facet Perpiñán, Sílvia
Cardinaletti, Anna
author_role author
author2 Cardinaletti, Anna
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Null-Prep
Llenguatge i llengües--Gramàtiques
Llengua segona--Adquisició
Interllengües
topic Null-Prep
Llenguatge i llengües--Gramàtiques
Llengua segona--Adquisició
Interllengües
description This study attempts to explain a systematic phenomenon that has been described in interlanguage grammars crosslinguistically: Null-Prep, which consists of omitting the obligatory preposition in certain movement constructions. We propose that Null-Prep is not related to lack of knowledge of wh-movement, as previously assumed, but to structural complexity; indeed, we consider Null-Prep a movement-derived structure. With evidence from prepositional relative clauses, wh-interrogatives, and sluicing constructions in L1 and L2 Spanish (English and Arabic L1s), we predict the potential appearance of the Null-Prep with a two-way complexity hierarchy that takes into account the syntactic position displaced, as well as its derivational complexity, in such a way that we calculate Null-Prep to occur more often in Relative Clauses, followed by Sluicing, and finally by Questions. This scalar phenomenon uniformly applies to all participants, native and L2 learners, emphasizing its universal nature.
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