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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-820. Sat Jun 17 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  78
 
Subject: 6.820, Misc: Synthetic Compounds
 
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Date:  Mon, 05 Jun 1995 13:20:35 CDT
From:  hmanders at indiana.edu (heather marie anderson)
Subject:  Synthetic Compounds
 
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Date:  Mon, 05 Jun 1995 13:20:35 CDT
From:  hmanders at indiana.edu (heather marie anderson)
Subject:  Synthetic Compounds
 
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> Subject: Re: 6.758, Sum: Synthetic compounds
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> Heather Marie Anderson (hmanders at indiana.edu) compares agentive
> compounds to choose between (1) the theory "that the surface form of
> synthetic [compounds] will differ as much as possible in ordering and
> affixation from the corresponding VP", and (2) the theory that they
> simply follow VP order.
>
> In the languages she cites, support for the theory (1) comes mostly
> from languages that have relatively recently changed the order of verb
> and object, but not the order of compounds, e.g. all the Germanic
> languages listed (V O < O V, compounds OV) and Finnish (same).  There
> are similar examples (with mirror image ordering changes) in the Munda
> languages of India, which had word order changes V O > O V, but retain
> their old compound order VO, and in fact also retain it even in finite
> verbs and objects which are incorporated (compounded).
>
> Are there examples of opposite ordering of verb phrases and compounds
> that could not be explained as due to the lag of morphological change
> behind syntactic change?
>
> David Stampe
> Univ. of Hawai`i
>
>
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