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Prosodic Inconsistency in Tohono O'odham
(University of Chicago Press, 2012)
This paper makes a typological contribution by describing a stress system that uses syllabic trochees while also displaying characteristics more typically associated with a quantity-sensitive language. The description comes ...
Azerbaijani-Russian Code-switching And Code-mixing: Form, Function, And Identity
(Linguistics, 2010-03-03)
From incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1828, through the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 governmental language policies and other socio/political forces influenced the Turkic population of the Republic of Azerbaijan ...
Articulations Of Identity Within High School Cliques: Language Choices In Boyat And Emo Filipino Youth Groups
(Linguistics, 2010-07-19)
This dissertation adds to work exploring where language stands in the shaping of adolescent speakers' social identities, since identities emerge through discursive and social practices, and social selves are produced through ...
American Sign Language Verb Categories In Constructed Action
(Linguistics, 2012-07-25)
The American Sign Language construction commonly known as "role-shift" superficially resembles mimic forms, however unlike mime, role-shift is a type of depicting construction in ASL discourse (Roy 1989). The signer may ...
The Structure Of Jarai Clauses And Noun Phrases
(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 ...
Voice And Valence-altering Operations In Falam Chin: A Role And Reference Grammar Approach
(Linguistics, 2011-03-03)
This dissertation describes and analyzes voice and valence-altering operations in Falam Chin, a Tibeto-Burman language of Burma. The data is explained within the framework of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), which supplies ...
A Revised Phonology Of Kabiye Segments And Tone
(Linguistics, 2011-03-03)
This study suggests revisions to the segmental and tonal phonology of Kabiye following a reanalysis of consonants, vowels, and tones in the speech of 7 male native speakers. Acoustic investigations are also included to ...
Swahili Word Order Choices: Insights From Information Structure
(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) ...
Truth Is, Sentence-Initial Shell Nouns Are Showing Up Bare
(Palacký University, 2014)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In one subtype of English shell noun construction, the noun serves as the subject in a pre-clausal unit, e.g., “The thing is.” Shell noun NPs have mainly been ...
Inquiries into Korean Linguistics V: Selected Works from the Eighteenth International Conference and the 2012 Xuzhou Conference on Linguistic Sciences
(MavOpenPress, 2012-07)
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