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Syntax outranks phonology: evidence from Ancient Greek*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Chris Golston
Affiliation:
Heinrich Heine UniversityDüsseldorf

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What influence do syntax and phonology have on one another ? Two types of answer to this question appear in the literature. The consensus view is probably best expressed by Zwicky & Pullum (1986) (see also Myers 1987; Vogel & Kenesei 1990), who claim that the relation is one-way: although phonological phrasing above the word is affected by syntactic structure, syntax itself is phonology-free.

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