The Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax: four apparent counterexamples in French

Autor:	Geoffrey K. Pullum, Philip H. Miller, Arnold M. Zwicky
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Grammar Computer science media_common.quotation_subject Ellipsis (linguistics) Phonology Attributive Syntax Language and Linguistics Linguistics Philosophy Clitic Adjective Adverbial media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Linguistics. 33:67-90
ISSN:	1469-7742 0022-2267
DOI:	10.1017/s0022226796006305
Popis:	The Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax (PPFS) is a proposed universal principle of grammar that prohibits reference to phonological information in syntactic rules or constraints. Although many linguists have noted phenomena that appear to them to be in conflict with it, the appearances are misleading in all cases we have examined. This paper scrutinizes four instructive cases in French that appear to falsify the PPFS. Section 1 deals with the alleged relevance of syllable count to the description of attributive adjective placement; section 2 addresses the validity of a rule mentioning consonantality in stating the agreement rule for adverbial tout; section 3 turns to the issue of preposition choice (e.g. en vs. au) with geographical proper names; and section 4 takes a look at a purported case of phonological reference in stating the rule for ellipsis of a clitic pronoun and an auxiliary in a coordinate structure. In each case we bring independent evidence to bear on the problem in order to show that the analyses employing phonology-sensitive syntactic statements are in error and the prediction of the PPFS is confirmed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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