The Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax
Four apparent counterexamples in French
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10140484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Miller (0000-0002-1436-9533, Université de Lille, corresponding author), Philip H Miller, Geoffrey K Pullum (0000-0002-7748-8847, University of California, Santa Cruz), Arnold M Zwicky (The Ohio State University) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-90 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022226796006305 |
| OpenAlex | W2120128863 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 9 |
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
Adjective · Adverbial · Attributive · Clitic · Complementizer · Ellipsis (linguistics · Grammar · Linguistics · Noun · Phonology · Section (typography · Syntax · Word order · Computer Science · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |