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The syntactic bases for French liaison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Yves-Charles Morin  and
Jonathan D. Kaye
Yves-Charles Morin
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal and Université du Québec a Montréal
Jonathan D. Kaye
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal and Université du Québec a Montréal
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Recent transformational analyses of liaison in French have postulated in one form or another a simple general syntactic basis for this phenomenon (Schane, 1968; Selkirk, 1974; Klausenburger, 1978). This contrasts with the traditional approach in which all the syntactic contexts in which liaison is obligatory, impossible, or depends on stylistic factors are painstakingly listed (Fouché, 1959; Delattre, 1947, 1955, 1956). This may appear to be due to the fact that the traditional approach lacked an appropriate syntactic theory which would unify the apparently unmotivated series of contexts in which liaison capriciously wandered. Working within the framework of the Syntactic theory, Selkirk (1974) was able to discover a small set of simple rules to account for a wide array of previously recalcitrant data. This success has sometimes been taken as an argument for the superiority of the syntactic theory, cf. Jackendoff (1977).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , September 1982 , pp. 291 - 330
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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