Subject: synthetic compounds

on sat , 3 jun 1995 , the linguist list wrote : > date : sat , 3 jun 1995 01 : 37 : 59 - 0500 > from : the linguist list < linguist @ tam2000 . tamu . edu > > to : hmanders @ indiana . edu > subject : forwarded mail > > > from stampe @ uhunix . uhcc . hawaii . edu fri jun 2 14 : 02 : 50 1995 > return - path : stampe @ uhunix . uhcc . hawaii . edu > received : from relay1 . hawaii . edu ( relay1 . hawaii . edu [ 128 . 171 . 41 . 53 ] ) by tam20 00 . tamu . edu ( 8 . 6 . 12 / 8 . 6 . 12 ) with smtp id oaa16738 for < linguist @ tam2000 . tamu . ed u > ; fri , 2 jun 1995 14 : 02 : 47 - 0500 > received : from uhunix3 . uhcc . hawaii . edu ( [ 128 . 171 . 44 . 52 ] ) by relay1 . hawaii . edu with smtp id < 11438 ( 5 ) > ; fri , 2 jun 1995 03 : 00 : 10 - 1000 > received : by uhunix3 . uhcc . hawaii . edu id < 148528 > ; fri , 2 jun 1995 09 : 00 : 29 - 1 000 > from : david stampe < stampe @ uhunix . uhcc . hawaii . edu > > to : linguist @ tam2000 . tamu . edu > in - reply-to : < 199506021008 . faa11257 @ tam2000 . tamu . edu > ( message from the lingu ist list on fri , 2 jun 1995 00 : 08 : 49 - 1000 ) > subject : re : 6 . 758 , sum : synthetic compounds > message - id : < 95jun2 . 090029hst . 148528 @ uhunix3 . uhcc . hawaii . edu > > date : fri , 2 jun 1995 08 : 59 : 51 - 1000 > status : ro > content - length : 1036 > > heather marie anderson ( hmanders @ 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 > >
