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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 ...