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    • Semantico-pragmatic aspects of the metalinguistic uses of comparatives in Mandarin Chinese and English 

      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 ...

    • SENTENCE FINAL PARTICLES IN BISU NARRATIVE 

      Person, Kirk Roger (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, ...

    • SEX-BASED DIFFERENCES IN ENGLISH ARGUMENTATIVE TEXT: A TAGMEMIC SOCIOLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE 

      Peterson, Susan Lynn (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. ...

    • A SOCIOLINGUISTIC COMPARISON OF THE SYNTAX OF MODERN STANDARD ARABIC AND JORDANIAN ARABIC 

      Saidat, Ahmad Mahmoud (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 ...

    • A SOCIOLINGUISTIC SURVEY OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AMONG THE SHIPIBO OF AMAZONIAN PERU 

      Tacelosky, Kathleen Ann (University of Texas at Arlington, 1998-05)
      In the 1950s, the trend worldwide in public education was for classes to be conducted in the national (prestige) language. In Amazonian Peru however, an alternative was being considered: Bilingual Education (BE). Since ...

    • SOME MAJOR ASPECTS OF THE FOCUS SYSTEM IN ISNAG 

      Barlaan, Rodolfo Rosario (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 ...

    • Sounds Of Chinese Korean: A Variationist Approach 

      Jin, Wenhua (Linguistics, 2008-08-08)
      This study approaches the understudied Chinese Korean from a variationist perspective, with an aim to capture the variation patterns and potential changes in the sounds of Chinese Korean. More specifically, three variables ...

    • A SPEECH ACT THEORY BASED INTERPRETATION MODEL FOR WRITTEN TEXTS 

      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 ...

    • Speech Act, Evidentiality, and Implicature in the Korean Topic-Construction 

      Son, Jung Sun (Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)
      Is it possible to map pragmatic or discourse-oriented features onto the syntax level? The Korean topic marker -(n)un has a contrastive reading that induces conventional implicature, and is closely associated with a modal ...

    • Stress management: Corpus-based insights into vernacular interpretations of "stress" 

      Stvan, Laurel Smith (Equinox, 2013)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Examination of the term stress in naturally occurring vernacular prose provides evidence of three separate senses being conflated. A corpus analysis of 818 instances ...

    • The Structure Of Jarai Clauses And Noun Phrases 

      Jensen, Joshua Martin (Linguistics, 2014-09-17)
      This dissertation provides a syntactic account for the Jarai noun phrase and for the three regions of the Jarai clause: the operator domain, the inflectional domain, and the theta domain. Within the noun phrase, I argue ...

    • THE STRUCTURE OF NOMINALIZATION IN BURMESE 

      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 ...

    • THE STRUCTURE OF THAI NARRATIVE DISCOURSE 

      Burusphat, Somsonge (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 ...

    • Students' Noticing And Incorporation Of Written Feedback: A Snapshot Of ESOL Writing Instructors' Commentary On Adult ESOL Students' Essays 

      Clark, Heather Leilani (Linguistics, 2008-04-22)
      Combining descriptive text analysis with qualitative interviews, the current study addresses the student-teacher written feedback interaction. Reflecting upon the existing debate within second language acquisition research, ...

    • A STUDY OF ICONICITY IN KOREAN: WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO LONG AND SHORT FORMS 

      Kim, Kyu-Cheol (University of Texas at Arlington, 1989-12)
      This study of iconicity if Korean has examined the iconic relationship (non-arbitrariness) between form and meaning in phonology, morphology, and syntax. There are many pairs of linguistic expressions that carry roughly ...

    • Subgrouping Of Nisoic (Yi) Languages: A Study From The Perspectives Of Shared Innovation And Phylogenetic Estimation 

      Lama, Ziwo Qiu-Fuyuan (Linguistics, 2012-07-25)
      In southwest China and neighboring countries, including Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar, there live over 100 ethnic groups who speak languages known as Nuosu, Naxi, Hani, Lisu, Lahu, etc. These languages belong to the ...

    • Subjectless sentences in English 

      Reiman, Patricia Willess (Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: One of the goals of modern linguistics is to develop a model of Universal Grammar which captures natural language features that are universal, while also accounting ...

    • Sugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy and Cultural Beliefs about Causation 

      Stvan, Laurel Smith (Department of Linguistics & TESOL, University of Texas at Arlington, July 20-22)
      Earlier studies showed some word pairs in health discourse being conflated. If some polysemes are not recognized as fully separate senses, is there a pattern of use showing if speakers feel that experiencing one sense ...

    • Swahili Word Order Choices: Insights From Information Structure 

      Mwamzandi, Mohamed Yusuf (Linguistics, 2014-07-14)
      Cross-linguistic pragmatic studies have shown non-canonical word order can often be explained if information structure is taken into consideration. This dissertation explores word order variation in Swahili (SVO, Bantu) ...

    • SYNOPTIC ASYMMETRY: AN INTER-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE SYNOPTIC PROBLEM 

      Boltz, David Herman (University of Texas at Arlington, 1981-12)
      In interdisciplinary studies, the question arises of how best to mesh interrelated disciplines. Here, linguistics (in the complementary disciplines of discourse analysis and perspective) is inter-phased with New Testament ...