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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781592703321

Autore

Love Nigel

Titolo

Generative phonology [[electronic resource] ] : a case-study from French / / Nigel Love

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : John Benjamins B.V., 1981

ISBN

1-283-32890-9

9786613328908

90-272-8090-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Lingvisticæ investigationes. Supplementa ; ; v. 4

Disciplina

441/.5

Soggetti

French language - Phonology

French language - Grammar, Generative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

U.S. place of publication stamped on t.p.

Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oxford.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

GENERATIVE PHONOLOGYA Case-Study from French; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; FINAL SEGMENTS AND GENDER INFLECTION IN FRENCH; 1. THE DELETION RULES; 1.1 Liaison as non-deletion; 1.2 Liaison as metathesis; 1.3 Liaison as syntax; 2. EXCEPTIONS TO THE DELETION RULES; 2.1 There are exceptions to the deletion rules; 2.2 There are no exceptions to the deletion rules; 2.3 There are exceptions to the deletion rules; 3. INVARIANT ADJECTIVES; 3.1 Vowel-final stems; 3.2 Consonant-final stems; 4. THE SCOPE OF THE DELETION RULES

4.1 Nasals and nasalisation4.2 Derivational augments and 'secondary derivation'·; 5. ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS; 5.1 There is no consonant deletion rule: liaison as epenthesis; 5.2 There is a (minor) consonant deletion rule; 6. THE FUNCTIONAL UNITY OF ELISION AND LIAISON; 6.1 Elision and liaison as natural rules; 6.2 Elision and liaison as conspiratorial rules; 7. SUMMARY; 7.1 Final segments; 7.2 Gender inflection; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

This study is a discussion of, rather than a contribution to, generative phonology. The central question posed, is: Does linguistic theory provide a basis for choosing between competing grammars - that is, an



evaluation procedure for grammars? If so, then what is its form? If not, then how are we to interpret controversies between linguists as to the relative merits of competing grammars? These issues will be discussed in relation to a particular problem of evaluation in the treatment of the morphonology of final segments in Modern French.