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Yang, Meng; 0009-0009-2699-2056 (2023-08-23)
This dissertation examines a group of Metalinguistic Comparatives (MCs) in Mandarin Chinese, exploring what they suggest about the universality of comparatives. I show that Chinese MCs encode a more fine-grained scalarity ...
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Williams, Emily AE; 0000-0002-6283-3126 (2022-08-12)
This dissertation provides a descriptive account of the use of ‘artificial operators’ on Reddit. I adopt the term artificial operators to refer to written symbols (e.g., #, ™, ©, ®) with overlapping linguistic and ...
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Alzahrani, Alhassan Abdullah J; 0000-0003-4547-6582 (2021-08-10)
This dissertation is intended to investigate if, and to what extent, a web-interface parallel corpus known as Reverso Context can assist Arabic EFL learners in addressing two aspects of word knowledge: semantic prosody and ...
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Chiung, Wi-Vun Taiffalo (University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-05)
In order to address the question of whether or not to abandon Han characters (Hanji), it is important to evaluate empirically the efficiency of Han writing. The purpose of this study is to compare the efficiency of learning ...
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Wright, Shirley A. (University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2000-08)
This study focuses on native English-speaking business professors to explore issues of stereotyping and error gravity in terms of university ESL (English as a Second Language) students. Specifically, this dissertation has ...
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Larson, Mildred Lucille (University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 1977-12)
The study of the functions of reported speech makes five major contributions to the current literature on discourse. (l) It highlights the multifunctional characteristics of reported speech; (2) it correlates these functions ...
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Walrod, Michael Ross (University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-12)
This work applies the insights of textlinguistics to the study of normative or persuasive discourse. Although textlinguistics is already somewhat interdisciplinary in character, it was found to be too narrow to account for ...
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Christian, Imanuel Gulabbhai (University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-05)
This study represents an attempt to place linguistic analysis in the cultural setting. The linguistic aspect of this study is presented in the framework of discourse grammar following the model developed by Longacre (1976, ...
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Hwang, Shin Ja Joo (University of Texas at Arlington, 1981-05)
A dominant trend in linguistics has been sentence grammar, which deals with structures leading up to the sentence level. With more studies on semantics and pragmatics, however, there has been a growing concern for discourse ...
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Walter, Stephen Leslie (University of Texas at Arlington, 1980-05)
Underlying the dominant theory of language today is the assumption that language is innate to homo sapiens. Theoretical and analytic work at all levels of linguistic inquiry are predicated upon this assumption. The present ...
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Gallman, Andrew Franklin II (University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-12)
This study reconstructs Proto East Mindanao, the ancestor language from which the East Mindanao languages have developed. This is accomplished by tracing the development from the ancestor language through the intermediate ...
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Manabe, Takashi (University of Texas at Arlington, 1984-12)
In recent years, so called Speech Act Theory (a branch of the philosophy of language) has focused on such concepts as 'intention' (or 'intentionality'), 'interaction' and 'comprehension'. The author believes that this ...
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Hopple, Paulette M. (University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-05)
Nominalized sentential elements have long been observed in Tibeto-Burman languages, but the role and extent of nominalized patterns have not been explored as a base of formative structuring. This dissertation examines ...
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Blackburn II, Perry Louis (University of Texas at Arlington, 1999-12)
The concept of communication is a fundamental notion in the metatheory of linguistics. This study explores the historical development and influence of a particular model of communication, labeled the ‘code model’. This ...
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Starwalt, Ervin Ray (University of Texas at Arlington, 2005-05)
The study focuses on two problems. The first concerns the structure of the text. The text is considered to be notoriously difficult to outline. The second problem is the function of the participle in 1 Peter. The letter ...
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Johnson-Evans, Deborah Ann (University of Texas at Arlington, 2000-08)
Every two years, candidates for national-level public office participate in pre-election debates as part of their campaign. In debates, candidates attempt to distinguish themselves from their opponents and persuade the ...
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Kolgjini, Julie M. (University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-05)
Palatalization is a very common process cross-linguistically; it has been widely attested in both Indo-European (e.g. Slavic) and non-Indo-European languages (e.g. Bantu and Chinese). Palatalization can be broken down into ...
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Woods, Frances Margaret (University of Texas at Arlington, 1980-07)
The mythology of the Halbi people reveals and reflects their cognitive orientation (and, in the process, validates their cultural values). The Halbis' myths are expressed through the linguistic form of narrative discourse ...
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Frank, David Benjamin (University of Texas at Arlington, 1983-12)
Until recently, conversation, considered even now by some to be outside the scope of linguistics, has been neglected in linguistic research. Chapter One of this dissertation argues that the popular distinction between ...
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Unseth, Peter Edward (University of Texas at Arlington, 2002-05)
This dissertation is a study of the consonant reduplication process in Amharic, a process which is herein named “Bi-Consonantal Reduplication.” In this process, the last two consonants of a root are repeated, a process ...
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