Browsing Theses and Dissertations(library) by Author "Sabbagh, Joseph"
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On the syntax of West Kalimantan: Asymmetries and A'-movement in Malayic and Land Dayak languages
Sommerlot, Carly Joann; 0000-0001-6462-9287 (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 ... -
Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee
Cornelius, Samantha; 0000-0001-9004-6202 (2018-09-10)In this dissertation, I provide an analysis for word level prosody in Cherokee, a Southern Iroquoian language spoken in Northeastern Oklahoma and Western North Carolina. Focusing on Cherokee as it is spoken in Oklahoma, I ... -
Reconstraining massive pied-piping in English: A non-interrogative CP analysis
Amy, Daniel Garrett; 0000-0001-8338-7850 (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 Structure Of Jarai Clauses And Noun Phrases
Jensen, Joshua Martin (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 ...