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PDF pending restorationGuy, Gregory R. – 1978
A careful examination of the location of variation in the grammar is advocated as opposed to attempts to cover linguistic generalizations with a single rule. Such an examination may lead to non-deterministic solutions, since there may be two distinct possible derivations for a single surface structure. For instance, in Portuguese, the variation…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Phonology, Grammar, Language Research
