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Artificial Operators: Function and Use in English
(2022-08-12)
This dissertation provides a descriptive account of the use of ‘artificial operators’ on Reddit. I adopt the term artificial operators to refer to written symbols (e.g., #, ™, ©, ®) with overlapping linguistic and ...
EMPLOYING A PARALLEL CORPUS-BASED APPROACH IN TEACHING SEMANTIC PROSODY AND COLLOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR TO ARABIC EFL LEARNERS
(2021-08-10)
This dissertation is intended to investigate if, and to what extent, a web-interface parallel corpus known as Reverso Context can assist Arabic EFL learners in addressing two aspects of word knowledge: semantic prosody and ...
Reconstraining massive pied-piping in English: A non-interrogative CP analysis
(2020-09-04)
This dissertation focuses on the distribution of "massive pied-piping" (Heck 2008) constructions in English. Compared to other forms of wh-movement and pied-piping, broadly speaking, massive pied-piping is limited in the ...
THE PLACE DEIXIS OF MODERN STANDARD ARABIC: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE DIMENSIONAL SYSTEM AND THE FACTORS THAT CONTROL THE CHOICE OF PLACE DEICTIC EXPRESSIONS
(2020-08-10)
This dissertation investigates place deixis in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) focusing primarily on two issues, 1) examining the dimensional system of place deixis in MSA as opposed to Classical Arabic, and 2) exploring the ...
On the syntax of West Kalimantan: Asymmetries and A'-movement in Malayic and Land Dayak languages
(2020-09-01)
This dissertation focuses on five Malayic and five Land Dayak languages of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, exploring voice, A’-movement, and extraction asymmetries through a Minimalist framework. The main goal of this dissertation ...
Automatic processing of tonal information during visual word recognition in L2 Chinese learners
(2020-08-10)
This dissertation investigates the automatic tonal processing in a second language (L2) and a first language (L1) during visual word recognition. Four experiments were conducted to examine -- (i) whether tonal information ...
Semantico-pragmatic aspects of the metalinguistic uses of comparatives in Mandarin Chinese and English
(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 ...