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Connors, Kathleen – 1974
This article argues that QUE-deletion in Montreal French is a syntactic rule, rather than a phonological one, as earlier treatments had claimed. It is divided into five sections: (1) a discussion of why the rule accounting for the alternation of QUE with zero is a deletion, not an insertion rule, (2) a critique of the best known earlier…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Language Research, Linguistic Theory