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SOME MAJOR ASPECTS OF THE FOCUS SYSTEM IN ISNAG
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-08)
This study attempts to specify how the syntactic form signals the semantic and pragmatic aspects of the focus system in the Isnag language. It specifies the correlation between the semantics and grammar of focus by proposing ...
SEX-BASED DIFFERENCES IN ENGLISH ARGUMENTATIVE TEXT: A TAGMEMIC SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)
This work applies insights from sociolinguistics, text-linguistics, social psychology, women's studies, informal logic, and tagmemic theory to the task of investigating sex-based textual differences in argumentative text. ...
PROTO-QUICHEAN KINSHIP
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)
The Quichean languages are comprised of a family of related languages of the Mayan stock, spoken principally in the highlands of Guatemala in Central America. Some of the kinship terminologies currently in use by the ...
COMPUTER ASSISTED DIALECT ADAPTATION: THE TUCANOAN EXPERIMENT
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)
This dissertation provides the theoretical basis for a computer program that adapts textual material from one language of the Tucanoan family to another. Tucanoan languages are spoken by small groups living in southeastern ...
THE STRUCTURE OF THAI NARRATIVE DISCOURSE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-08)
This study presents the interrelated concerns of Thai narrative discourse which include macrostructure, texture, constituent structure, and cultural information. The macrostructure is the global meaning of a discourse which ...
ON THE INTERACTION OF LINGUISTIC TEXTS AND HUMAN KNOWLEDGE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1986-05)
This study examines some aspects of the interaction of linguistic texts and human knowledge. The quest for greater context in linguistics suggests the focus of this study, viz., the effect of a text on the knowledge of its ...