Volume 15, Fall 1992
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- ItemOpen AccessCalgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 15, Fall 1992(University of Calgary, 1992-09) Prevost, Margrit; Rogmans, Siv M; Rowsell, Lorna VThe editors of this issue, Siv M. Rogmans, Margrit Prevost, and Loma V. Rowsell, are pleased to present the fifteenth issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics published by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Calgary. The papers published here represent works in progress and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive. All the contributors to this issue are or have been associated with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Calgary. The collection of essays is quite diverse, drawing from several language families and different areas of linguistic study.
- ItemOpen AccessMechanisms of language change constraints on reinterpretation processes as evidenced in particle reinterpretation data from Homeric Greek(University of Calgary, 1992-09) Caswell, CynthiaLightfoot (1980) claims that the mechanism for syntactic change, reinterpretation, lacks constraints. An in depth study of particle reinterpretation in Ancient Greek will be presented to demonstrate semantic constraints on the process. Particle reinterpretation involves several steps, whereby adverbial particles are associated with Kase-phrases (KP) and are eventually reinterpreted as the case-assigning head of the phrase. The constraints on the process are specific and easily identifiable, but they should not be attributed to the "the very broad constraints of UG", as Lightfoot claimed. Familiarity with Lehmann and Venneman's (1974) theory of word-order change and Baker's (1988) theory of incorporation is helpful for understanding the issue, but not absolutely necessary to follow the argument as presented here.