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WORD ORDER IN BIBLICAL HEBREW POETRY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-05)
Syntacticians generally focus on prose texts of a language when studying word order rather than examining poetry. The general consensus is that the stylization of poetry exercises too great an influence on the text to allow ...
LINGUISTIC VARIATION WITHIN GUMUZ: A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HISTORICAL CHANGE AND INTELLIGIBILITY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-05)
The Gumuz language is spoken by roughly 160,000 people across the Blue Nile region of Ethiopia and Sudan (Grimes 2004). Gumuz is the sole member of the Gumuz family which is part of the larger Nilo-Saharan super-family ...
SENTENCE FINAL PARTICLES IN BISU NARRATIVE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2000-12)
Particles are a vital component of many Asian languages. Nonetheless, they typically receive little treatment in grammatical studies. This may be due in part to the theoretical orientations of generative grammar which, ...
TRANSPARENCY AND SPREADING OF TENSE, ASPECT, AND MOOD IN KUCHE NARRATIVE DISCOURSE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-12)
Though clauses of Kuche can be grammatically marked—usually by verb prefixes or auxiliary verbs—for tense and/or aspect and/or mood (TAM), in discourse, very few clauses are actually marked for these categories. Instead, ...
A PHONOLOGICAL GRAMMAR OF NORTHERN PAME
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-12)
This dissertation describes the phonology and morphology of Northern Pame, an Otomanguean language of Central Mexico. Furthermore, it explains the grammatical relationship of these domains from an Optimality Theoretic ...
A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE 1998 UNITED STATES SENATE CANDIDATES' PRE-ELECTION DEBATES
(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 ...
PALATALIZATION IN ALBANIAN: AN ACOUSTIC INVESTIGATION OF STOPS AND AFFRICATES
(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 ...
THE STRUCTURE OF NOMINALIZATION IN BURMESE
(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 ...
CODE-SWITCHING IN THE SPEECH OF SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUALS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-05)
The purpose of this study is the investigation of (a) the motivations for code-switching; and (b) the process by which bilinguals perceive code-switching as meaningful. The empirical basis for the study is data gathered ...
A SOCIOLINGUISTIC COMPARISON OF THE SYNTAX OF MODERN STANDARD ARABIC AND JORDANIAN ARABIC
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-08)
This thesis investigates some of the syntactic differences between two forms of Arabic, the standard and the local vernacular of Petra. This vernacular has not been looked at from a syntactic perspective. The attempt here ...