Some Theoretical Hurdles

The present chapter is not an introduction to or even a survey of Government Phonology; listed in the Introduction are numerous sources available in the literature which can adequately serve the purpose of introducing or surveying the model. Here we would like to single out a few issues where clarfication seems particularly signficant in view of the use that will be made of them in the following chapters. Additionally, some ideas, while well entrenched with GP thinking, need not necessarily be obvious to followers of other frameworks, hence spelling out some details may remove misunderstandings. It should also make it possible for us to apply the model in the course of the analysis without interrupting the discussion by constant references to theoretical issues. Below we concentrate on three groups of problems which, needless to say, are interconnected.

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