Browsing PhD Dissertations - DO NOT EDIT by Title
Now showing items 88-96 of 96
-
Training Communities, Training Graduate Students: The 2012 Oklahoma Breath of Life Workshop
(University of Hawaii PressDepartment of Linguistics and TESOL, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2013) -
The Translator's Assistant: A Multilingual Natural Language Generator Based On Linguistic Universals, Typologies, And Primitives
(Linguistics, 2011-07-14)The Translator's Assistant (TTA) is a multilingual natural language generator (NLG) designed to produce initial drafts of translations of texts in a wide variety of target languages. The four primary components of every ... -
TRANSPARENCY AND SPREADING OF TENSE, ASPECT, AND MOOD IN KUCHE NARRATIVE DISCOURSE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-12)Though clauses of Kuche can be grammatically marked—usually by verb prefixes or auxiliary verbs—for tense and/or aspect and/or mood (TAM), in discourse, very few clauses are actually marked for these categories. Instead, ... -
#TWITTERDISCOURSEMARKERS: A CORPORA BASED STUDY OF THE PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS OF HASHTAGS
(2017-08-11)In this dissertation, I posit that hashtags can function as discourse markers, where space constraints of 140 characters on Twitter complicate their realization. Through the progression of research questions that shape ... -
UNRAVELLING MURDER AND MAYHEM: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF A WIRU DIVINATION ACCOUNT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1987-12)The endeavor to understand another emic view of reality offers a conceptual challenge to any observer-analyst. This paper presents the author's reflections upon his encounter with another culture and language and his ... -
The Verbs Of Esther: A Discourse Analysis Of A Post-exilic Text
(Linguistics, 2009-09-16)The Verbs of Esther: A Discourse Analysis of a Post-Exilic Text seeks to describe the narrative main clause verbs, the quotation formula verbs, and the verbs in quotations found in the text of Esther. These verbs provide ... -
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 ... -
“‘WELL I DON’T LIKE ABORTION’ WELL THEN DON’T HAVE ONE”: A CORPUS-ASSISTED DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE STANCE FUNCTIONS OF SOME DISCOURSE MARKERS IN MEDIATED ABORTION DEBATE
(2019-07-22)This dissertation examines the use of discourse markers as a stance-taking resource in written discourse on abortion. Drawing from four corpora collected from editorials, blogs, Twitter, and Reddit, I focus on the discourse ... -
WORD ORDER IN BIBLICAL HEBREW POETRY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-05)Syntacticians generally focus on prose texts of a language when studying word order rather than examining poetry. The general consensus is that the stylization of poetry exercises too great an influence on the text to allow ...