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Personal And Impersonal Passives In Seri, Stephen A. Marlett
Personal And Impersonal Passives In Seri, Stephen A. Marlett
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction: "In this paper I will examine and discuss passive constructions in Seri. My purpose will be basically two-fold: first, to present descriptive and typological facts concerning these constructions. My second purpose is to discuss how these facts should be accounted for in an explicit grammar. The paper is divided into three major sections in which alternative treatments of these clauses are discussed. In order to compare these alternatives, I will make them explicit in terms of relational grammar (Perlmutter (1978a, 1978b, in press, to appear), Perlmutter and Postal (1977, in press a, in press b, to appear)). …
A Diachronic Explanation For The Origin Of Ovs In Some Carib Languages, Desmond C. Derbyshire
A Diachronic Explanation For The Origin Of Ovs In Some Carib Languages, Desmond C. Derbyshire
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
Derbyshire and Pullum (1979, this volume) report on the evidence they have accumulated during the past two years showing the likely existence of twelve languages with object-initial basic order (OVS or OSV). Such languages are contrary to what had been generally predicted in the literature on word order typology until 1977. All twelve languages are found in what might broadly be termed the Amazon basin of South America. Seven of the eight OVS languages belong to the Carib family.
This paper suggests a possible diachronic explanation for the emergence of OVS as a basic order in Carib languages. It takes …
Grammatical Relations In Universal Grammar, Donald G. Frantz
Grammatical Relations In Universal Grammar, Donald G. Frantz
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction: "[W]e shall look at a number of recurring language phenomena involving grammatical relations. Because most of these allow a universal formulation only in terms of relational networks rather than linear or constituent structures, we shall make use of Postal and Perlmutter's promising framework, generally referred to as Relational Grammar (RG)."
Reduplication And Accent In Southeastern Tepehuan, Elizabeth R. Willett
Reduplication And Accent In Southeastern Tepehuan, Elizabeth R. Willett
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction: "In the early stages of analysis, Southeastern Tepehuan (SET) vowel length appeared to be conditioned by accent. Although accent fell in a majority of words on closed syllables, there were so many exceptions that no general statement could be made. Thus accent was relegated to being a feature of the underlying character of roots. Reduplicated forms, however, were a confusing body of unpredictable accent; if accent were phonemic, why did it occur on the root syllable of some forms, and on the reduplicated syllable in others? Some plurals were judged irregular because they seemed to lose or …
Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 23 (1979)
Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 23 (1979)
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
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The Abstract Consonant In Seri, Stephen A. Marlett
The Abstract Consonant In Seri, Stephen A. Marlett
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction: "The hallmark of generative phonology has been the postulation of unique underlying representations for morphemes and the derivation of surface allomorphs by means of a set of rules. In order for these rules to have the greatest generality possible, a number of linguists have proposed solutions involving underlying segments that never reach the surface with the same feature specifications that they had at the underlying level. These 'abstract' solutions have generally posited segments whose features are fully specified. [...]
"Abstract solutions have generated an abundance of discussion and some alternative proposals have been presented for most of …
Object Initial Languages, Desmond C. Derbyshire, Geoffrey K. Pullum
Object Initial Languages, Desmond C. Derbyshire, Geoffrey K. Pullum
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction: "The purpose of the present paper is to present some facts that have come to our attention recently concerning a number of Amerindian languages which we believe do exhibit object-initial basic orders. The languages we shall discuss belong to South American Indian groups which are known to have suffered more or less catatrophic decline in numbers due to the onslaught of European settlement in the New World over the past five hundred years (see Hemming 1978). Since the historical accident of European colonial expansionism has had such a devastating effect in this case, linguists might be well …