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

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• dc.contributor.author Perpiñán, Sílvia
• dc.contributor.author Cardinaletti, Anna
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-04-19T06:15:56Z
• dc.date.available 2023-04-19T06:15:56Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.abstract 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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• dc.identifier.citation Perpiñán S, Cardinaletti A. Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions. Second Lang Res. 2022. 42 p. DOI: 10.1177/02676583221132198
• dc.identifier.doi https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02676583221132198
• dc.identifier.issn 0267-6583
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56493
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof Second Language Research. 2022. 42 p. DOI: 10.1177/02676583221132198
• dc.rights Perpiñán 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: 10.1177/02676583221132198
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• dc.subject.other Null-Prep
• dc.subject.other Llenguatge i llengües--Gramàtiques
• dc.subject.other Llengua segona--Adquisició
• dc.subject.other Interllengües
• dc.title Null-Prep as a systematic interlanguage phenomenon: evidence from relative clauses, interrogatives, and sluicing constructions
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