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AN ARGUMENT FOR THE LUKAN AUTHORSHIP OF HEBREWS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1987-12)The question of the authorship of the New Testament epistle to the Hebrews has provided scholars with fertile ground for speculation from the earliest days of Church history until the present time. The purpose of this ... -
A STUDY OF ICONICITY IN KOREAN: WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO LONG AND SHORT FORMS
(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 ... -
Damage Progression in Laminates under In-plane and Edge Moment Loads
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 1992)Damage progression in laminates with in-plane loads and edge moments is investigated herein analytically. Simple-supported laminated composite columns subjected to off-center compressive loads are analyzed. They undergo ... -
A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF THE RHETORICAL STRUCTURE EMPLOYED IN ENGLISH TEXTS BY NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND NATIVE SPEAKERS OF SPANISH
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1996-08)It has often been observed that students of English as a second language not only speak with a foreign accent but write with a distinctively foreign accent as well. Two apparently conflicting theories have been proposed ... -
INTERRELATIONS OF PROSODY, CLAUSE STRUCTURE AND DISCOURSE PRAGMATICS IN TARIFIT BERBER
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1996-08)The interconnections that exist among prosody, clause structure, and discourse pragmatics have been noted by many linguists (e.g., Halliday 1967; Givon 1983; Longacre 1983). These interconnections have included such phenomena ... -
NON-NATIVE SPEAKER COLLOCATIONS: A CORPUS-DRIVEN CHARACTERIZATION FROM THE WRITING OF NATIVE SPEAKERS OF MANDARIN
(University of Texas Arlington, 1997-12)Non-native speaker difficulty in producing collocations (i.e., domain-specific recurrent word combinations) is widely acknowledged (see, e.g., Bahns 19 9, Channel 1981, Farghal and Obiedat 1995, Gitsaki 1996, and Zughoul ... -
A SOCIOLINGUISTIC SURVEY OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AMONG THE SHIPIBO OF AMAZONIAN PERU
(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 ... -
Towards a "critical regionalism" for rapidly developing areas of Texas.
(Landscape Architecture, 1998-12)The published intellectual discourse on "Critical Regionalism" is more prolific in the literature of architecture and planning than that of landscape architecture. As a result, the existing parameters used to define ... -
THE IMPACT OF E-MAIL USE ON FOURTH GRADERS' WRITING SKILLS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1998-12)The growing interest in computer use at home and in the workplace has led to the incorporation of computer skills into school curricula. Numerous claims assert the benefit of computers, but questions remain concerning the ... -
THE CODE MODEL OF COMMUNICATION: A POWERFUL METAPHOR IN LINGUISTIC METATHEORY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1999-12)The concept of communication is a fundamental notion in the metatheory of linguistics. This study explores the historical development and influence of a particular model of communication, labeled the ‘code model’. This ... -
FACILITATIVE OR FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR ADULT LEARNERS TO ACQUIRE ORAL PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1999-12)Social interaction in the language classroom has been said to contribute to the acquisition of oral proficiency in a target language by presumably facilitating comprehension and learner production through negotiation of ... -
A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE 1998 UNITED STATES SENATE CANDIDATES' PRE-ELECTION DEBATES
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2000-08)Every two years, candidates for national-level public office participate in pre-election debates as part of their campaign. In debates, candidates attempt to distinguish themselves from their opponents and persuade the ... -
ATTITUDES OF NATIVE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PROFESSORS TOWARD UNIVERSITY ESL STUDENTS
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2000-08)This study focuses on native English-speaking business professors to explore issues of stereotyping and error gravity in terms of university ESL (English as a Second Language) students. Specifically, this dissertation has ... -
SENTENCE FINAL PARTICLES IN BISU NARRATIVE
(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, ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
THE STRUCTURE OF NOMINALIZATION IN BURMESE
(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 ... -
LEARNING EFFICIENCIES FOR DIFFERENT ORTHOGRAPHIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HAN CHARACTERS AND VIETNAMESE ROMANIZATION
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-05)In order to address the question of whether or not to abandon Han characters (Hanji), it is important to evaluate empirically the efficiency of Han writing. The purpose of this study is to compare the efficiency of learning ...