Volume 11, Summer 1985

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    Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 11, Summer 1985
    (University of Calgary, 1985-06) Hildebrand, Joyce L
    This is the eleventh in the series of working papers published by LOGOS, the Student Linguistics Society at the University of Calgary. These papers represent the current research in proqress of students and faculty members and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive. Appearance of papers in this volume does not preclude their publication in another form elsewhere.
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    La Huasteca: correlations of linguistic and archaeological data
    (University of Calgary, 1985-06) Thompson, Marc
    In modern Mexico and Guatemala there are between 2 and 2.5 million speakers of 28 Mayan languages. As a group they rank next to Quechua speakers of Peru and Equador as one of the most impressive surviving Amerindian linguistic and cultural units in the western hemisphere (Vogt 1969). As geography and modern distribution suggest, with the exception of the Huastecs, various Maya groups have been in contact for many centuries. Linguists generally define three major subgroups of Mayan: l) Huastecan, 2) Yucatecan and 3) southern Mayan.
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    Language shift and code alternation: a study of the multi-lingual speech community of Mennonites at the First Mennonite Church, Calgary
    (University of Calgary, 1985-06) Funk, Vera
    The speech community being examined in this paper was founded in 1946 and included members who were immigrants from the post World War II migration and also of the post World War I migration. The community known as the Scarborough Mennonite Church originated with 29 members. Based on the church registry at the church's inception, all members' names were of Dutch origin. The comparison of this early list with that of today's membership indicates a definite change in the Mennonites' view of admitting 'outsiders' to the church and thus the accompanying shift in value placed on language within the church.
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    On determining grammatical relations in Slave*
    (University of Calgary, 1985-06) Hildebrand, Joyce L
    Although there is an extensive literature on the analysis of Athapaskan languages, the emphasis has been on the verbal morphology and the phonological systems of these languages. This focus is understandable, given the complexity of the verbal morphology of Athapaskan languages and the difficulty encountered in attempts to describe their syntax within any current theoretical framework. In this paper, however, I will concentrate on a syntactic phenomenon in Slave, a northern Athapaskan language, referring to the verbal morphology only as it relates to the phenomenon under discussion.
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    Some remarks on the phenomenon of reverse phonological interference in Polish speakers of Canadian English
    (University of Calgary, 1985-06) Iwanicka, Ewa
    The purpose of this paper is to investigate the manner in which the Polish/English language contact situation in Canada (Calgary) alters the phonology of the Polish language of speakers who have come into permanent contact with the English language in adulthood. The present study considers the system of Polish consonants. Since the study included only a small number of subjects (13 in the Main Study Group) it can be viewed as an initial attempt at describing and classifying the phenomenon of reverse phonological interference of English into the sound system of Polish. The results also provide valid insights into the three main aspects of the investigation, namely the nature and degree of the RI and also its correspondence, if any, to the duration of the language contact.