On Preposition Copying and Preposition Pruning in wh-clauses in English

Abstract

This paper reports on preposition copying and preposition pruning in what Milroy and Milroy (1993) term 'Real English', using data from unscripted live radio and TV broadcasts.We begin by discussing the nature of the two phenomena and showing that they cannot be given a straightforward characterisation in syntactic terms.We go on to propose a processing account, under which preposition copying and pruning errors have a common source, and may either involve the sloppy carrying forward of clause-initial material during the formation of filler-gap dependencies in language production, or result from the competition of two alternative structural representations during sentence planning.

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