Pronouns in PPs: Orphan Prepositions and Pronoun Types
Online-Workshop | Thursday, December 5th 2024, 2pm-5pm CET
About
Starting with Anne Zribi-Hertz’s seminal publications (Zribi-Hertz 1984a,b) orphan prepositions, as in (1), have received considerable attention from both an empirical and theoretical perspective.
(1) Cette valise, je voyage toujours avec. (Anne Zribi-Hertz 1984a: 1)
‘This suitcase, I always travel with (it)’
The investigation of such orphan prepositions has proven fruitful for our understanding of the properties of prepositions and pronouns alike. Recent research has scrutinized, amongst others, the properties of the prepositions which (dis)allow orphaning, different types of null elements as complements of orphan prepositions, as well as the animacy restrictions on pronouns in PPs. The talks at the workshop assess the current understanding of the phenomenon and further address remaining open questions (e.g., cross-linguistic distribution of orphan prepositions).
Workshop made possible with the support of Language between redundancy and deficiency, Austrian Science Fund SFB 10.55776/F1003.
Programme
| 14:00-14:15 | Introduction |
| 14:15-15:00 | Bare prepositions and the issue of ellipsis: some hints from Martinican Creole (Anne Zribi-Hertz, Université Paris 8/SFL, CNRS, Loïc Jean-Louis, GRGC, Université Paris 8/SFL) |
| 15:00-15:15 | Break |
| 15:15-16:00 | Adentro and là-dedans: inside deictic prepositions with null complements in Spanish and French (Michelle Troberg, University of Toronto) |
| 16:00-16:45 | Competition and animacy restrictions: French and Spanish PPs as a case (Yanis da Cunha, Steffen Heidinger, Alina Schwarzenberger, University of Graz) |
| 16:45 | Closing discussion |
Participation
You are cordially invited to attend the workshop. Participation is free and does not require registration. Please use the following link to attend the workshop.
Zoom Link: uni-graz.zoom.us/j/61255095583
Organizers
Yanis da Cunha, Steffen Heidinger, Alina Schwarzenberger
(Department of Romance studies, University of Graz)
Subproject “Animacy features and the flexibility of pronouns” (SFB Redundancy and Deficiency)
Contact
Yanis da Cunha
yanis.da-cunha@uni-graz.at
Selected references
Adler, Silvia. 2012. Ellipse et régimes des prépositions françaises. Louvain: Peeters.
Authier, J.-Marc. 2016. French orphan prepositions revisited. Probus 28(2). 231–270.
Heidinger, Steffen. 2024. Types of zero complements in French and Spanish prepositional phrases: New evidence from acceptability judgment experiments. Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 10(1). 1–29.
Troberg, Michelle. 2020. Les prépositions orphelines : un réexamen à la lumière du SP étendu. Arborescences 10. 185–206.
Zribi-Hertz, Anne. 1984a. Orphan Prepositions in French and the Concept of ‘Null Pronoun’. The Indiana University Linguistics Club.
Zribi-Hertz, Anne. 1984b. Prépositions orphelines et pronoms nuls. Recherches linguistiques 12. 46–91.