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- Title
Plural marking in French NA/AN combinations: What liaison can tell us.
- Authors
Pomino, Natascha; Stark, Elisabeth
- Abstract
Our paper discusses different patterns of plural marking in N(oun)A(djective)/A(djective)N(oun)-combinations in phonic French. We first show, based on previous observations, that French has incomplete plural agreement in complex nominal phrases and that there is a striking asymmetry between AN-combinations (plural marking on the determiner and prenominal adjectives via liaison, where possible) and NA-combinations (usually, only plural marking on the determiner and infrequent liaison between N and postnominal A). In order to understand this discrepancy, we have analyzed all the occurrences of AN and NA in two French corpora and found a strong tendency for liaison in NA only to appear systematically and independently from register variation in 'proper-name like' expressions such as Jeux Olympiques 'Olympic Games' ([ʒøzolɛ̃pik]). In a third step, we discuss this empirical finding and consider it synchronically as a case of morphophonological 'proper name marking' (cf. Nübling 2005).
- Subjects
PHONICS; OLYMPIC Games; FRENCH corporations; CONTRACTS; TERMS &; phrases
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2016, Vol 35, Issue 2, p137
- ISSN
0721-9067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zfs-2016-0011