Ordre des mots, ordre dans les mots

Patrick Sauzet : « World Order, Order within the Words » Instead of being thought of as an inherent property of morphemes, linearity should be derived from a lexical state where phonological primes are only related to each other via attenance (unoriented adjacency). It is shown that order within words can be construed as an effect of phonology. However, such a phonological process sometimes interprets syntactic configurations. Hence the interaction between phonological ordering (order within words) and syntactic ordering (word order) is also explored in this paper. Cliticisation, it is argued, may represent the maximal relevance of phonological ordering, whereas syntactic (external) ordering effects may in turn be embedded within phonological domains (compound tenses).Sauzet Patrick. Ordre des mots, ordre dans les mots. In: Langue française, n°111, 1996. L'ordre des mots, sous la direction de Henning Nølke et Hanne Korzen. pp. 10-37