whose death she lost the motivation to paint after/the hotel I am staying at

[Annabel Lee]

Could you please give examples of sentences with relative clause where stranding is not possible, but the relative pronoun is other than "whose"?

Here's a sentence that I came upon today in a famous old essay, titled "Self-Reliance" (1841), by Ralph Waldo Emerson:

"There are two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven."​

To me, that sentence would sound hideous with stranding, though I shan't call it impossible, lest others should differ.

?? There are two confessionals, which we must be shriven in one or the other of.​

 

[Vladv1]

Well, it's possible, but "whose" by itself can work fine in a related relative clause:

He is the man whose death caused her to lose the motivation to paint.​

Also, when a prepositional phrase containing a "whose"-phrase is a complement within the relative clause (consider relative clauses with "put," which takes a prepositional-phrase complement), there is no problem:

a) She is the woman in whose purse I put my book.​

b) She is the woman whose purse I put my book in.​

So, I tend to think the bad apples here have to do with the "whose"-phrase being nested in an adjunct (i.e., an only peripherally modifying) prepositional phrase within a relative clause in which the preposition is stranded:

c) She is the woman in whose house a dog has been barking.​

d) ?? She is the woman whose house a dog has been barking in.​

Could you please tell whether the pattern that you kindly explained here can apply to relative clauses that have words other than WHOSE?