Re: THEORY: Ergativity and polypersonalism
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 20, 2005, 0:53 |
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:30:49PM -0500, Roger Mills wrote:
> Christophe's point, as I recall, was always about _spoken_ French, in which
> "je l'aime" is indeed a phonological unit or "word", /ZlEm/. Note too that
> the various parts never occur as independent words: /Z/ /l/ (one could say
> that the schwas are predictable, thus non-phonemic!) /Em/ etc. Also, of
> course, I like to think he was being only semi-serious :-))))))))
I never got that impression at all. I think he was quite serious that
spoken French should be reanalyzed this way, and that the traditional
analysis is of only diachronic value.
-Marcos
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