On the distinction between preposition stranding and orphan prepositions

• YVES ROBERGE ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Toronto

     University of Toronto

     Canadá

     
• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 15, Nº 2, 2012, págs. 243-246
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Poplack, Zentz and Dion (PZD; Poplack, Zentz & Dion, 2011, this issue) examine the often unquestioned assumption that the existence of preposition stranding (PS) in Canadian French is linked to the presence of a contact situation with English in the North American context. Although this issue has been the topic of previous research from a syntactic perspective (Bouchard, 1982; Vinet, 1979, 1984), to my knowledge, it has never been explored using variationist sociolinguistic methods applied to a large corpus of spontaneous speech, with emphasis on code-switchers as potential agents of contact-induced change.