Stranded/fronted P
postings on stranded (vs. fronted) P
ML, 10/10/03: Quoi ce-qu’elle a parlé about?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000032.html
stranded Ps in Canadian French
ML, 4/11/04: An internet pilgrim’s guide to stranded prepositions:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000743.html
BP, 6/19/04: What for:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001084.html
chains of stranded Ps
GP, 12/8/04: A Churchill story up with which I will no longer put:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001702.html
BZ (posted by GP), 12/12/04: A misattribution no longer to be put up with:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001715.html
ML, 4/25/05: Better a spectacular blunder than a hint of unseemliness:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002095.html
omitting stranded P
AZ, 5/17/05: Ending with a preposition:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002168.html
a stranded P cartoon
ML, 5/21/05: More on Canadian French preposition stranding:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002187.html
AZ, 6/2/05: Who are you writing to?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002219.html
a stranded P cartoon
AZ, 6/21/05: The CliffsNotes version:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002254.html
stranded P in the CliffsNotes grammar manual
ML, 6/29/05: If we look, simply, to the French:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002273.html
French as a model for English P use
ML, 6/30/05: The French aren’t really against:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002274.html
stranded Ps in (European) French
AZ, 7/4/05: That’s American:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002291.html
increase in stranding as an aspect of “colloquialization”
AZ, 7/5/05: Avoidance:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002292.html
including avoiding stranded P
AZ, 7/7/05: Get ’em while they’re young:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002298.html
Ruth Heller on prepositions, for children
GP, 9/20/05: New Yorker search engine stark staring mad:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002485.html
“I’m sorry I couldn’t find that for which you were looking.”
BZ, 11/27/05: Churchill vs. editorial nonsense:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002670.html
AZ, 11/4/06: Grammar on the gay beat:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003734.html
P stranding in Genre magazine
AZ, 11/23/06: Let’s meet at mine:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003811.html
stranding vs. fronting
ML, 3/3/07: Why are so many linguistic corrections incorrect?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004264.html
including corrections of stranded P
AZ, 3/3/07: Self-incorrection:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004266.html
“fixing” stranded prepositions
ML, 5/1/07: Hot Dryden-on-Jonson action:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004454.html
ML, 5/3/07: A note of dignity or austerity:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004464.html
combination of stranded and fronted P
ML, 5/4/07: Back to the future, redundant preposition department:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004465.html
combination of stranded and fronted P
ML, 5/14/07: A phenomenon in which I’m starting to believe in:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004493.html
combination of stranded and fronted P
GP, 5/15/07: Could preposition doubling be headed our way?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004498.html
combination of stranded and fronted P
ML, 5/19/07: Re-doubled prepositions:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004510.html
combination of stranded and fronted P
ML, 8/25/07: Prepositional anxiety and Voldemort’s wand:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004854.html
incorrection of stranded P
AZ, 5/10/08: Contamination:
Dryden’s Rule contaminating straded to
ML, 8/21/08: Heaping of catmummies considered harmful:
mostly about split infinitives, but with a bit on stranded P
GP, 4/25/09: Room for debate on Strunk and White:
GP on Colin John re Burchfield’s entry on “preposition at end”
AZ, 5/6/09: Interesting sentences:
“not a good sentence with which to begin a story”
6/19/09: Grammarville:
“Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of”
GP, 7/7/09: A “dumb copy editor” story from George Lakoff:
Metaphors We Live By
7/7/09: Stranded P postings:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2009/07/07/stranded-p-postings/
inventory of postings to this date
1/28/12: Wordless cartoons, words-only cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/01/28/wordless-cartoons-words-only-cartoons/
“postposition prepositions”
3/28/12: where … at:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/03/28/where-at/
obligatory stranding (among other things)
4/18/12: Who(m) to V:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/04/18/whom-to-v/
stranding/fronting in combinatination with two types of to-infinitival interrogatives
5/3/12: Damn you, Dryden!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/05/03/damn-you-dryden/
Dryden as “the sad source of years of utterly unnecessary grammatical unhappiness”
5/12/12: Quant of whom:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/05/12/quant-of-whom/
cases where stranded P is unavailable
2/16/13: Cosa Nostra Grammatica:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/02/16/cosa-nostra-grammatica/
the zombie rule against stranded P extended to a ban on stranded infinitival to
5/8/13: Brief mention: where … at:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/05/08/brief-mention-where-at/
more on where … at
7/23/13: Pied Piping Day:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/23/pied-piping-day/
fronting and Pied Piping
5/21/14: Three diverse:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/05/21/three-diverse/
cartoon #2, psychiatrist’s patient: “It’s not the voices themselves that drive me crazy, it’s the way they end their sentences with prepositions”
9/13/14: Not ending with a preposition:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/09/13/not-ending-with-a-preposition/
cartoon on ending a sentence with “a preposition”
10/9/14: Two for Thursday:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/10/09/two-for-thursday/
#1 grammar police dog: “he hates it when you finish a sentence with a preposition”
GP, 9/4/15: Economist sticklers trying to bug me:
“Of what is the universe really made?”
8/28/16: Iatrogenic grammar sickness:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/28/iatrogenic-grammar-sickness/
unfortunate avoidance of stranded P