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BI-CONSONANTAL REDUPLICATION IN AMHARIC AND ETHIO-SEMITIC
(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 ...
CONTINUITY AND GIVEN-NEW STATUS OF DISCOURSE REFERENTS IN ADZERA ORAL NARRATIVE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2002-12)
This thesis analyzes the encoding of discourse referents in oral narratives in Adzera, an SVO Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. First, it classifies overt referents on a given-new continuum according to Prince's ...
SECONDARY PALATALIZATION IN ISTHMUS MIXE: A PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2002-12)
This dissertation is a study of the process of palatalization in Isthmus Mixe, in which every consonant in the inventory has a palatalized counterpart. This type of palatalization occurring as a secondary [i]-like articulation, ...
Tohono O'odham stress in a single ranking
(Cambridge University Press, 2002-08)
Western Attitudes toward the Korean Language: An Overview of Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Mission Literature
(University of Hawaii Press, 2002-06)
Descriptions of Korea’s linguistic situation written by Westerners during the nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries not only reveal native and foreign attitudes toward the Korean
language but also provide insight into ...