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Prince, Ellen F. – Language, 1976
Shows that evidence exists for a rule of neg-raising in French. Neg-raising and its domain are then reconsidered from a functional perspective, whereby the transformation is shown to be hedging device. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, French, Linguistic Theory, Negative Forms (Language)
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Fauconnier, Gilles – Language, 1973
Shorter version of this paper read at the First California Linguistics Conference, Berkeley, May 1971. (VM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, French, Grammar
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Klausenburger, Jurgen – Language, 1978
An analysis of some of the historical rules of consonant deletion, vowel deletion, nasalization, and initial h-deletion--all recapitulated synchronically within the transformational generative accounts of French linking--showing that they have undergone morphologization in the form of inversion, and that h-aspire words have been assigned the…
Descriptors: French, Generative Grammar, Generative Phonology, Grammar