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Proper name-marking via 'liaison' in French

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2019
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Pomino, N., & Stark, E. (2019). Proper name-marking via “liaison” in French. Language Typology and Universals, 72(4), 627–652. https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2019-0024

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The liaison consonant [z] in French noun phrases has traditionally been assumed to function as a plural marker. The realization of “plural [z]” in N(oun)-A(djective)-combinations is becoming, however, very rare in naturalistic data – except for contexts which allow a proper-name reading. On the one hand, one might think that we are dealing with a recent phenomenon, the beginning of a potential linguistic change in French in the sense of exaptation, reuse of former morphophonological material such as plural markers to signal proper-nam

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  • Pomino, Natascha
  • Stark, Elisabeth

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72

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4

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627

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652

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Journal Article

Keywords

Liaison, plural inflection, proper names, French, adjective position, univerbation

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English

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2019-11-07

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2019-12-05

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1867-8319

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Green

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48 since deposited on 2019-12-05
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Pomino, N., & Stark, E. (2019). Proper name-marking via “liaison” in French. Language Typology and Universals, 72(4), 627–652. https://doi.org/10.1515/stuf-2019-0024

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