Volume 17, Winter 1995
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Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 17, Winter 1995
(University of Calgary, Arts, Linguistics, University of Calgary, 1995-01)The editors of this issue, Sandra Kitch, Julie Bailey and Lorna V. Rowsell, are pleased to present the seventeenth issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics published by the Department of Linguistics at the ... -
A longitudinal study of the acquisition of English stress
(University of Calgary, Arts, Linguistics, University of Calgary, 1995-01)The study that I discuss today differs in two respects from my previous studies. One, it is a longitudinal study, and two, it involves different first languages. Ideally, it might have been better to change only one of the ... -
Thematic roles: a semantic feature analysis
(University of Calgary, Arts, Linguistics, University of Calgary, 1995-01)Frawley has proposed three argument roles which are grouped under the category of logical actors: the roles of agent, author and instrument. Based on his descriptions of the category of logical actors, and the roles ... -
Greek-English code-switching
(University of Calgary, Arts, Linguistics, University of Calgary, 1995-01)The purpose of this paper is to investigate and discuss the social significance of codes witching with a concentration on Greek-English bilingual codeswitchers. Codeswitching is defined as the use of two or more linguistic ... -
Chilcotin tone: an autosegmental analysis*
(University of Calgary, Arts, Linguistics, University of Calgary, 1995-01)Chilcotin is an Amerindian language belonging to the Athabaskan family. Athabaskan languages are characterized as prefixing languages with rich morphological agreement. They are also categorized as tone languages, although ... -
The incompatibility of lexical derivation and post-lexical arguments*
(University of Calgary, Arts, Linguistics, University of Calgary, 1995-01)In the present paper we demonstrate that the aspectual role CAUSER is syntactically assigned. This assumption allows a principled distinction between indirect causers and agents; it also accounts for restrictions on ... -
External arguments and ter- in Malay
(University of Calgary, Arts, Linguistics, University of Calgary, 1995-01)The verbal prefix ter- in Malay is associated with three unrelated meanings: adjectival passive (be V-ed), accidental (happened to V) and abilitative (able to V). We argue that the prefix ter- has no independent semantic ...