| Автор | MILLER, PHILIP H. |
| Автор | PULLUM, GEOFFREY K. |
| Автор | ZWICKY, ARNOLD M. |
| Дата выпуска | 1997 |
| dc.description | 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. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | The Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax: four apparent counterexamples in FrenchThe authorsʼ names are listed alphabetically; equal shares of credit and responsibility attach to each. French grammaticality judgments where sources are not cited are those of the first-named author, a native speaker. English translations from French sources are also his. We thank Bernard Fradin, Aaron Halpern, Jean-Paul Lang, Marc Plénat, and two anonymous referees for their comments, and we acknowledge the following sources of support: Millerʼs work on this paper while he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, where the facilities of the Center for the Study of Language and Information proved most useful (special thanks to Trudy Vizmanos); Pullumʼs work on the paper began while he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences during 1990–1991 and completed during a sabbatical leave provided by the University of California, Santa Cruz in Fall 1995; and Zwickyʼs work was completed with the assistance of a Distinguished University Professorship grant from The Ohio State University. An earlier discussion of some of this material was previously published in French (Miller, Pullum & Zwicky 1992); this paper supersedes that one, including additional material and incorporating some substantive revisions. |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-7742 |
| Print ISSN | 0022-2267 |
| Журнал | Journal of Linguistics |
| Том | 33 |
| Первая страница | 67 |
| Последняя страница | 90 |
| Аффилиация | MILLER PHILIP H.; Université de Lille 3 and URA 382 SILEX du CNRS |
| Аффилиация | PULLUM GEOFFREY K.; University of California |
| Аффилиация | ZWICKY ARNOLD M.; The Ohio State University and Stanford University |
| Выпуск | 1 |
