Search
Now showing items 21-30 of 96
A Comparative Tone Analysis of Several Bantu D30 Languages (DR Congo)
(2018-05-23)
This dissertation presents an analysis of the tonal systems of the Bantu D30 languages. There are 34 Bantu D languages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), few of which have developed orthographies (Lewis, Simons, ...
EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF TWO DIAGNOSTICS OF KOREAN UNACCUSATIVITY
(2016-01-14)
According to the Unaccusative Hypothesis (UH), intransitive verbs can be
divided into two classes: unaccusative verbs (e.g. fall) and unergative verbs (e.g.
dance) (Burzio 1986, Perlmutter 1978). Several approaches have ...
Artificial Operators: Function and Use in English
(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 ...
Morphological decomposition in heritage language speakers
(2019-07-24)
This dissertation investigates the grammatical processing in a heritage language (HL), or the first language (L1) in a home or minority setting that has become a non-dominant language, and a more dominant second language ...
Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee
(2018-09-10)
In this dissertation, I provide an analysis for word level prosody in Cherokee, a Southern Iroquoian language spoken in Northeastern Oklahoma and Western North Carolina. Focusing on Cherokee as it is spoken in Oklahoma, I ...
Politeness Devices In The Tuvan Language
Whereas a few core areas of the Tuvan language (such as phonology and morphology) have been fairly well described by linguists, pragmasemantic topics in the language, including politeness, have until now not been probed ...
The Emergence Of Pragmatic Softeners In Spanish By Instructed Learners Of Spanish In The Study Abroad And Immersion Contexts
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)
This dissertation explores and expands the term pragmatic softening as produced and perceived by L2 learners of Spanish. The learners included 36 intermediate-level learners studying in a U.S.-based immersion academy and ...
Talking To Strangers--a Sociolinguistic Experiment: Variation In Initial Dyadic Interactions Between Spanish-speakers In Early 21st Century Buenos Aires, Argentina
(Linguistics, 2011-03-03)
What are the chances of a dyad of Spanish-speaking strangers using informal address in casual, initial interactions in Buenos Aires, Argentina, today? To discover the pattern(s) of contemporary address, the Principal ...
A Corpus-based Analysis Of Discourse Anaphora In English And Korean: A Neo-Gricean Pragmatic Approach
(Linguistics, 2013-07-22)
This dissertation explores discourse anaphora in English and Korean by using a neo-Gricean pragmatic approach with corpus-based data. Very little study of Korean discourse anaphora has yet taken place at the inter-sentential ...
"Does Your Throat Hurt More In The Morning Or Throughout The Day?" "Yes.": Intercultural Medical Discourse
(Linguistics, 2008-04-22)
An increasing number of immigrants to the United States do not use English as their first, or even second, language. Members of the medical community who treats such patients often do not speak the range of home languages ...