Linguistics Department

Senior Theses Titles

Year Student Thesis Title Adviser
2022 Montreal William Benesch /S/tylizing the /s/elf : a first look into the concurrent fluidity of gender and language Khan
2022 Keely Booth These people, those words : a sociolinguistic analysis of demonstrative determiners in politics Becker
2022 Luna Levin Native speaker production and acceptance of focus particles and object shift in Mandarin Chinese

Pearson

2022 Hailey Poutiatine Đara boca andgytt unclyþ : focus and VO-OV order in two old English texts Pearson
2022 Sam Scull Shona tone depressors Khan
2022 Jie Sheng Antipassive reflexives in Romance languages Pearson
2022 Gregory Yoshiaki Tanaka
Where's the emphasis? : an analysis of Russian stress in Russian learners Khan
2021 August Bicket A Case of Mistaken Identity: An investigation of semantically-motivated argument marking in Meitei Pearson
2021 Andrea Bryant Beyond they/them: A typology of nonbinary pronoun and agreement innovation Pearson
2021 Sebastian Hogness BAG/BEG/BAGEL: Beyond the West Coast?: Examining Pre-/g/ Movement and Merger in Arizona, Idaho and Utah Becker
2021 Nalani McFadden Ghost Ride the Shift: African American English and Low Back Merger Shift in the East San Francisco Bay Area Becker
2021 Nemo Shen Go small or go big, there is no in-between: Mandarin-English Speakers’ Grammar Preferences in Code-switching Shen
2021 Xiaotian Wang Diphthongization of Shanghainese /e/ under the Influence of Language Contact with Mandarin Shen
2020 Tiffany Chang A Mouse Bravely Dancing in the Rain: A Study of Third Tone Sandhi Production Among Asian Mandarin Heritage Speakers Becker
2020 Paul Mitchell The Null Complement bǎ Construction Pearson
2020 Cecilia Bahls The low back merger shift in the Olympic Peninsula region of Washington state Burns
2020 Aidan J. Malanoski Had I'd've known better:"extra" auxiliaries in English conditionals Pearson
2020 Olivia Johnson Les alumnes Americanes: social factors and gender-fair language engagement Khan
2020 Justice del Castillo Look Ma, it's hands (and nonmanuals): message-focus in Turkish sign language Pearson
2020 Flora Carey Does this sound pointy to you?: word memorization through sound-symbolic mappings of tone and segments Khan
2020 Isaac Gray Acquistion of Russian intonation and Mandarin tone by English-speaking learners Khan
2020 Sophia Ruth Kongshaug Gaeilge na Rinne past and present: language documentation and preservation in an Irish-speaking area Burns
2019 Lucas Fagen Nominal reference in Mandarin Chinese Pearson
2019 Arthur Scott Garrison Not quite Canada, definitely not California: evidence of the low-back-merger shift in Moscow, Idaho Becker
2019 Michaella Véronique Joseph Afro-Portlandia: a comparison of /ai/ monophthongization between African Americans and second generation Caribbean Americans
Becker
2019 Adrianne Leary Hast thou not heard?: archaic language use and liturgical culture in the Episcopal church Becker
2019 Manamaya Peterson The Portlander's guide to back vowel fronting: the participation of women of color in regional variation Becker
2019 Liliana Santos-Vallejo "Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres": expression of identity through speech in the Chicano community Khan
2019 Mica Grayson Semrau The pen is mightier than the pin: second dialect acquisition through merger Khan
2019 Oskar Söderberg Swiping beyond simple sluicing Pearson
2019 M Stoddard Differential subject marking in Nepali: a study of ergative case assignment on unergative subjects Pearson
2019 Alexandrea Watson Beirut or Beyrouth: French-oriented identity in Lebanese Arabic Khan
2019 Elaina Wittmer Talking backwards, hearing forwards: the sound unit in Zezuru Shona
Khan
2018 Yuan Young Chang It's Gone to Shit, but It Could Be Worse: Constructing Identity Through Linguistic Condemnation Khan
2018 Terra Friedman Online Catcalls: a Linguistic Form of Sexual Terrorism? Becker
2018 Hunter Gill Tracing Topicality in Discourse Pearson
2018 Willis Jenks Age-Based Variation in the Conceptualization of Instant Messaging Pearson
2018 Liam Käch Vargas Gïs-ing in Amharic: a Study on Foreign Verb Adaptation Khan
2018 Gregor McGee A Semantic Account of Double Modals Pearson
2018 Samantha Peterson But We Don't Believe in It: Narrative Analysis of Lesbian Marriage Stories Becker
2018 Ellery Sloane-Barton Hearing-World Influence on Pro-Drop in ASL: a Variationist Approach to Syntactic and Lexical Differences in Deaf Signers of American Sign Language Becker
2018 Kristin Lifka Sullivan Grammaticality and Intelligibility of Intonation in Synthetic Speech Khan
2018 Caroline Wright Why Are We Always the Bad Guys?: Attitudes and Perceptions of Russians in the James Bond Film Goldeneye Becker
2018 Tomu Zhao Rollin': Chicago Footwork's Subversion of Linguistic Norms Khan
2017 Chase Re Doremus Parenthood and the Gendered Voice: A comparative acoustic analysis of transgender and cisgender parents' infant-directed speach Khan
2017 Philip Allan Georgis BCMS Lexical Prosody as a Marker of National Identity in the Former Yugoslavia Khan
2017 Maxwell Harrison Joslyn Mandarin A-not-A Questions: Surface Patterns and Syntactic Structure McKinney-Bock
2017 Abigail Claire Mosing Bridging the Gap Between Wh-Movement and Wh-in-Situ Languages: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Sluicing and Pseudo-Sluicing McKinney-Bock
2017 Shannon Christine Pearson Not-So-Split Ergativity: A Reanalysis of Case Licensing in Basque from a Progressive Perspective McKinney-Bock
2017 Molly Rose Worden Reading the Signs: Listener Perceptions of Emoji Swan
2017 Korina Yoo Tagalog-English Codeswitching and the Construction of Filipino American Identity Swan
2016 Richard Adcock Black Language in the New Golden West: African American English in Portland Becker
2016 Sarah Allen Adjectives and Multiple Modification in Malagasy  Pearson
2016 Manon Gilmore Dislocation in French: Sociolinguistic Character and Discourse-Pragmatic Function Pearson
2016 Miriam Gölz Since /taim/ Immemorial: An Investigation of Physiological Motivations for the Great Vowel Shift Gruber
2016 Knar Hovakimyan Eastern Armenian Consonant Clusters Gruber
2016 Sydney Low Enter the Wonderland: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Role of Orientalism in the Lan Su Chinese Gardens Becker
2016 Isobel Reed I hella love authenticity : black and white perceptions of San Francisco Bay area slang  Becker
2016 Emma Rennie Functions of the discourse markers so and but in turn-final position Pearson
2016 Arthur Sillers Speech Variablitity in Multicultural London English as Sociolinguistics Variable Gruber
2015 Kendra Chalkley Applied asymmetries: Syntax of applicative constructions in Tukang Besi Pearson
2015 Gabriella Chronis Structural aspects of figurative and literal word senses within a vector space model of semantics Pearson
2015 Frida Cruz Sound symbolism in SJQ Chatino Khan
2015 Maren Fichter Social and linguistic taboos in terms for women and their genitalia Becker
2015 Allesandra Geffen Haitian Creole genesis: Language contact and language creation Pearson
2015 Heather MacFarlane Professionalization as a method of native language revitalization in Alaska Becker
2015 Yevgeniy Melguy Hearing across languages: Bilinguals’ perception of (not-so-)non-native stop contrasts Khan
2015 Helen Seay Connections between second language German competency and national identity in a study abroad context Becker
2015 Molly Waggett The use of presupposition triggers in improv comedy Pearson
2014 Erin Appleby “We learn differently”: A sociolinguistic analysis of activists’ discursive construction of the LD identity Khan
2014 Genevieve Medow-Jenkins Trinidadian English Creole: Uncovering ethnolinguistic variation through an intonational model Khan
2014 Manuel Abreu Accusative Clitic Doubling in Dominican Spanish  Pearson
2014 Anna Aden Environmental Discourse: How We Talk About the Environment, and What We’re Really Saying Zimman
2014 Winifred Conrad Mirativity and Evidentiality in Lhasa Tibetan Pearson
2014 Rena Dimes The Language of Leading and Following: An Analysis of Dance Partners and Linguistic Accommodation in the Portland, Oregon Blues Dancing Community Zimman
2014 Abby Dufresne Insubordinate Conduct: Deontic Necessity Modals Hack the System McKinney-Bock
2014 Christina Gremore Written on the Body: Representations of ‘Non-Standard’ Speech and Embodiment in African-American Fiction Zimman
2014 Esmeralda Herrera Racializing Gay Speech, Sexualizing African American English: Style and /t/ Release Among Black Gay Men Zimman
2014 Eleanor Kinney When Sounds Speak for Themselves: An Exploration of Synesthetic Sound Symbolism in Shape and Affect Associations Khan
2014 Molly Krumholz Sufficiency Beyond the Scale: The Uncivilized Realm of Degree Semantics Across Possible Worlds McKinney-Bock
2014 Merritt Miles Language and Le Cri: Embodied Identity in the Moroccan Journal Souffles McKinney-Bock
2014 Katina Papadakis Nasal Spreading in Paraguayan Guaraní: An Acoustic and Aerodynamic Study Khan
2014 Ivan Rivera Spanish-English Codeswitching at the Aux-V Boundary: A Congruence Study of Grammatical Interaction McKinney-Bock
2014 Brice Roberts Searching for Stress in Shanghainese Tone Domains Khan
2014 Dean Schmeltz Effect of Bilingualism on Hyperarticulation in Foreigner-Directed Speech Khan
2014 Gabriele Slaughter It Is Known: Evidentiality and Mirativity in Tajik Persian Pearson
2013 Rebecca Kleinberg Structure and Function in Stand-up Comedy Pearson
2013 Jeannie Yoon Learning the Global Language: Language Ideologies and Cultural Perceptions of Korean English Students Khan
2013 Katelyn Best Talk to the Hand: Counterevidence to the Language Bioprogram Hypothesis from Nicaraguan Sign Language Becker
2013 Kim Durkin Computer Input Methods for Languages That Do Not Use the Latin Alphabet Khan
2013 Juan Flores Lavender Linguistics in the Rose City: A Linguistic Investigation of the Construction of “Top” and “Bottom” Stances by Gay Men in Portland, Oregon Becker
2013 Rosemary Ingham The Effect of Native Language Formality on Acquisition of Japanese Formality Levels Khan
2013 Haley Jacobson Blood Makes the Grass Grow: Athletic Communities, Political Bodies; Constructing Salient Linguistic Identities for Female Athletes in an Intellectual Powerhouse Becker
2013 Sara Mulliner “We’re Born Naked and the Rest is Drag”: A Sociophonetic Investigation of Stylistic Variation in the Speech of an African-American Drag Performer Khan
2013 Sydney Negus The “Hackey” Rink and the Binghamton “A”: A Study of Dialect Change in Upstate New York Becker
2013 Eugenia Plascencia Using Psycholinguistics to Investigate the Syntactic Structure of the Dative Alternation in Mexican Spanish Pearson, Canseco-Gonzalez
2013 Ian Strahan Word Order Variation in Mandarin Directional Complement Constructions Pearson
2013 Daniel Vedensky Georgian Medial Verb Nominalizations Pearson
2012 Kathleen Aston Don’t Touch Me With That Tone of Voice: An Investigation into Aspects of Audio-Tactile Integration Nycz
2012 Laura Backus Mish Mash(i): The Syntax of sh and Negative Polarity Items in Moroccan and Egyptian Arabic Pearson
2012 Jenny Calvert-Warren Smashing the Gender Binary: Suggestions for Sociolinguistic Research, and Some Acoustic and Perceptual Data Nycz
2012 Elena Fernández Collins Intonation and Narrative Structure in Sirat Bani Hilal, an Arabic Oral Folk Epic Becker
2012 Courtney Fraser And I Was Like :( : Emotive Features, Tone, and the Construction of Gender in Instant Messaging Becker
2012 Samantha Grenrock The Metaphoricity of Nonce Compounds in Contemporary Poetry Becker
2012 Ruth Linehan Is Upper-brow Raidió Anseo: An Analysis of the Use of English Discourse Markers in Irish-language Radio Pearson
2012 David Mondello Variation of Primary Stress Placement in Southern East Cree Pearson
2012 Stephen Paulsen Case and the Causee Argument: A Minimalist Approach Pearson
2012 Sasha Puchalski To Its Instance: Poetic Orientations in Speech Nycz
2012 Elizabeth Rutledge Left Behind? African American English and Dialect Bias in Standardized Testing Becker
2012 Nina Umont Prosodic Features of Narrative-Style Jokes Nycz
2012 Kathryn Wheeler “iM dA rEaLeSt U WiLL MeeT”: Constructing Black Linguistic Identity on Internet Dating Sites Becker
2011 Makenzie Barron Exploring the Discourses of Marriage, Monogamy and Mao Becker
2011 Margit Bowler The Spray/Load Verbal Alternation: Syntax and Subclasses Pearson
2011 Mattias Lehman The Semantic Underpinnings of Syntactic Subcategorization: A Lexically Decompositional Approach to Distinguishing Classes of Ambitransitives Pearson
2011 Lydda López Regias and Codeswitching: A Look Into Modern Identities Along the Mexican-American Border Becker
2011 Rachel Mossey Sext Appeal: Effects of Linguistic Form on Non-Platonic Desire in Text Messaging Antonyuk-Yudina, Becker
2011 JinYoung Park Microvariation in Ergative Alignment of Lhasa Tibetan and Amdo Tibetan Pearson
2011 Altove Rowley Characterizing the Cartoon: Dialect, Race, and Gender in Disney Becker
2011 Laura Sard Emphasis in Moroccan Arabic Loanwords from French Antonyuk-Yudina, Pearson
2011 Samantha Seagaard Exploring Feminine Gender Construction "Inna Dancehall Style": A Lyrical Analysis of Jamaican Dancehall Music Becker
2011 Anna Seymour The Prestige of a Californian Bob Dylan: Phonetic Variation in 90's Pop Music Antonyuk-Yudina, Becker
2011 Samuel Shemitz Extending the Relative Clause Extended Complement Model Pearson
2011 Robin Steitz To the Tune of the Schizophrenic Mode Antonyuk-Yudina, Brightman
2011 Julia Von Holt Time and Space in American Sign Language: Examining Iconicity in Aspect Inflections and Temporal Deixis Through a Peircean Lens Becker
2011 Henry White Villain, Victim, Rescuer: Government According to the President of the United States Pearson
2011 Katherine Wu Lost in Translation: A Study on the Difference Between Linguistic Relativity and Framing Antonyuk-Yudina, Pearson
2010 Jennifer Hawkins Retrying Scopes: A Study of Genre in the Revision of the Texas Science Curriculum, 2008-09, Or: How to Fight the Culture Wars Hibbard, Pearson
2010 Lauren Banister Linguistic Representations of Ideology and Identity in the Context of Creative Communities and Interactive Art Pearson
2010 Tara Barnett Language is a Life Full of Animals Hibbard
2010 Jordan Frand The Construction of a Terrorist Attack: A Discourse Analysis of Media Representations of 9/11 and 11-M Antonyuk-Yudina
2010 Matthew Hensley True North: Programmatic Desiderata for Contact Linguistics Based on Studies of French in Canada Pearson
2010 Sarah Kantrowitz Rhythm and Synchrony: Mechanisms of Engagement, Collectivity, and Cooperation Pearson
2010 Hilary McMahan An Application of Piercian Semiotics to Whorfian and Neo-Whorfian Linguistic Relativity Antonyuk-Yudina
2010 Jane Myers Ropes of Sand: A Semiotic Analysis of Soviet and American Propaganda Hibbard
2010 Amy Vaughan We Are Legion: The Linguistic Construction of Community on the Internet Antonyuk-Yudina
2010 Gene Wicks Flirtation as a Genre of Desire in Language Hibbard
2010 Francesca Mucciaccio "A Gaggle a' Y'ats" and Other Stories: Tracing the Effects of Ideologyon Language Change Through Indexical Formation in Y'at Brightman
2010 Savannah Naffziger "No One Thinks of Margaret Thatcher as a Sweetheart": Stereotypical Femininity, Psychological Androgyny, and the Language of Female Politicians Hibbard
2009 Lindsey Allen Iconicity in the Perception of Speech Rhythm Hibbard
2009 Dustin Bowers Ojibwe Gender and Derivation: A Final Analysis Sabbagh
2009 Peter Farago To Have and Have Not: Unifying Possession in the Sentential and Nominal Domains Sabbagh
2009 Irina Gladkova In Her Image: Iconic Modalities Driving Law, Gender, and Cultural Perceptions of Rape Hibbard
2009 Sarah Gould On the Hive Mind: Explorations in Social Semiotics Hibbard
2009 Wes Hilton The Status of Remote Past BIN in Standard American English M. Becker
2009 Katherine Judson The Legal Performative, Race, and the Modern Civil Rights Movement: A Study of the Battle Over Semiotic Production of Identity Sabbagh
2009 Molly Lewis A Parallel Formulation of Whorfian and Neo-Whorfian Linguistic Relativity Hibbard
2009 Will Pickett Language and the ‘White Horse’: Two Interpretations of the ‘Gongsun Longzi’ M. Becker
2009 Aviva Raskin Japanese Women’s Language as a Covert Standard: A Case Study on the Speech of the Gothic-Lolita Sabbagh
2008 Roslyn Burns Gender Stability in Germanic Languages: An Investigation of Plautdietsch in North America and Ingvaeonic Languages Pearson
2008 Jessica Love-Nichols “Who Does He Think He’s Kidding?”: A Linguistic Analysis of John Kerry’s Perceived Inauthenticity in the 2004 Presidential Election Hibbard
2008 Sarah Mitteldorf Where to Find the Missing: Ellipsis, Syntax, Semantics and Context Pearson
2008 Eavan Moore English and Identity: Native Language, Global Language Pearson
2008 Aurora Paulsen Resurrecting the Dead: Revisiting Benjamin Lee Whorf's Principle of Linguistic Relativity Hibbard
2008 Erin Price Evidentiality in Quechua : A Systemic Functional Analysis Pearson, Hibbard
2008 Ke Angie Wang The Brave and the Boldface: A Study of Prosody in Comic Books Hibbard
2008 Margarett Waterbury Talk To Me: A Bakhtinian Approach to Addressivity and Dialogism in Political Speech Hibbard
2007 Sahar Baharloo Words In Space: Is Word a Formal Unit in American Sign Language? Pearson
2007 Susan Barlow An Alignment Analysis of High Tone Spreading in Shona Pearson
2007 Justin Holguín The Status of Ergative Case in Basque: A Minimalist Approach Pearson
2007 Meg Biser “A Mississippi Girl Don't Change Her Ways”: A Linguistic Approach to the Construction of Authenticity in Country Music Hibbard
2007 Nick Callaway Judeo-Spanish and the Success of the Standard: A Case Study of Language Ideology's Role in Language Shift Hibbard
2007 David Freas Imitation Thesis Hibbard
2006 Jesse Hallett Lexical Semantics for Natural Language Processing Pearson
2006 Eliah Hecht The Syntax and Semantics of Focuser “Like” Pearson
2006 Robert Daly Language Revitalization and its Socio-Cultural Context: Chinook Jargon Hibbard
2006 Leah Johnston Sheng and the City Hibbard
2006 Alex Wallace The Linguistic Construction of Events and the Production of Knowledge: Reported speech and Translation in French Newspaper Reports Hibbard
2006 Aurora Davis The Function of -mIş in Turkish Pearson
2005 Roshni Gohil Possessive Constructions and the Morphology and Syntax of Noun Phrases in Turkish Pearson
2005 Laura Jean Long Non-configurational Word Order in Russian Pearson
2005 Kate Paddock The Prosodic Structure of Free Verse, Focusing on the Poetry of William Carlos Williams Pearson
2005 Annelise Uhlig Language Acquisition, Creolization, and the Language Evolution Debate: A Critique of Derek Bickerton's “Proto-language” Hypothesis Pearson
2005 Kirill Shklovsky Person Marking in Petalcingo Tzeltal Haviland
2005 Meg Mitchell The Generation of Referring Expressions in Natural Language Processing Haviland
2005 Heather Campbell Jokoa eta Jolas: Policy Instillation versus Playful Improvisation in the Basque Language Movement Haviland
2005 Mark Evans Rhythmic Asymmetry Haviland
2004 Rene Acosta Case Conflation and Case Attrition in Indo-European Languages Pearson
2004 Hannah Lynn Wh-questions in American Sign Language Pearson
2004 Jessica Coon Roots and Words in Chol (Mayan): A Distributed Morphology Approach Aygen
2004 Laurel Goldstein A Presentist Semantics for Tense Aygen, Hovda
2004 Hester Serebrin Topic, Focus, and Object-Verb Order in Mandarin Pearson
2004 Sarah Coffer To 'He' or not to 'He': The Linguistic and Social Implications of Gendered Pronouns in English Aygen
2003 Jaiva Larsen Merge, Move, and Mate: Is Syntax an Evolutionary Epiphenomenon? Pearson
2003 Nicholas Thornton Performative Differences of Gender in the Prosody of American English Speech Pearson
2003 Richard von Duerckheim Information Structure in Egyptian Arabic Pearson
2003 Chan MacDonald Language Planning and Language Policy: Socio-cultural Integration or Hegemony? The Case(s) of the Soviet Union Haviland
2003 Natasha Milenkaya Stories and Storytellings Haviland
2003 Natalie Tschechaniuk American Sign Language and Language Status: An Examination of the Conflict Haviland
2002 Chris Flink A'unaS a't'sexsa nemi' a't'ssiin: Some Topics in the Inflectional Morphology of Sahaptin and Some Topics in Linguistics Pearson

2002

Andrew Wallace Indexicality and Syntactic Register Variation in English Pearson
2001

Ann Clifton

Nominal constituents and obviation in Tenejapa Tseltal

2001

Mary J. Darin

Language-dependent domains: information access in Italian-English bilinguals

2001

Timothy Robert Sundell

Competence, normativity, and the problem of syntactic rule-following

2001

Torah Emmanuel Light Oglander

Residual effects of morphosyntactic patterning on the observation of chickens : an exploration in linguistic relativity

2000

Luke Barrett

The "explicable pe" : a new analysis of Coptic verbal morphosyntax
2000

Alexis Heather Pott

How many real Mods are there on this 'Modslist'? : the linguistic construction of space in a non-spatial environment

2000

Courtney Stevens

Waiting for an answer : the effect of TTS voice profiles on children's interspeaker response latencies

2000

Natalie Anne Toogood

I say schneuzen, you say schnäuzen : why Germans get emotional about orthographical reform

1999

Kathrine S. Bonjour

A minimalist perspective : the role of universal grammar in child second language acquisition

1999

Lauren Keeler

Written in the spoken tongue : reforming diglossia in China, 1840-1940

1999

Gretchen Elisabeth Pfeil

Posing pairs : speech genre and the construction of participant roles at Praise Chapel "Where everybody's somebody and Jesus is Lord"

1999

Eric Seth Solomon

Undressing the lieutenant nun : event-related brain potentials in response to gender stereotypes and violations of grammatical gender

1998

Courtney Handman

Parishioners, pastors and "pulling" the Holy Spirit : creativity and contextualization of sermonic discourse in the Mountain Ok region of Papua New Guinea

1998

Misha Taryn Hutchings

Membayangkan dan menciptakan persatuan : planning of the Malay language in Southeast Asia

1998

Sarah Strawberry Stafford

Nominal number marking in Mandarin Chinese and English : a test of linguistic relativity

1997

Akesha L. Baron

K'opantik Kajvaltik, Let's talk to God: : the importance of prayer in an evangelical Tzotzil community

1997

Trevor A. Goldsmith

Verbal aspect in English 

1997

Michael R. Hamilton

!Spanglish! : grammatical competence and pragmatic creativity in United States Spanish

1997

Eric Saunder

Language - an inquiry into the term by way of American sign language

1996

Rose Mary Graves

The sanskrit locative case

1996

Kasandra Michelle Griffin

The attachment of spanish nouns to their grammatical gender 

1996

Louise Hornby

The voicing of Ulysses

1996

Jon Kiparsky

Trouble  calamity  preposition : on the sanskrit verbal prefix

1996

Stuart Robinson

The -van antipassive in Tzotzil : a discourse perspective

1996

Katherine Shanks

Definite reference and second language acquisition

1995

Sarah Wallace

Coverbs and grammaticalization of categories in Mandarin Chinese

1995

Suzanne Shelden Garren

Using slips of the tongue to investigate spreading activation and the model's implications for understanding the bilingual linguistic memory system

1995

Jason David Hatfield

Michif : the genesis and viability of a truly indigenous North American language

1995

Ashley Marie Williams

Domains and attitudes : a sociolinguistic study of the functions of Shanghaihua and Potonghua in Shanghai

1994

Ian Bruce Rider Gillingham

You want fries with that? : social motivations of codeswitching in the Dutch province of Friesland

1994

Esteban Gutierrez

Ijipat yalel tal ta toyol = He was thrown down here from way up high : Ch'enalhó Tzotzil directionals and the description of motion

1994

Chloe Persian Mills

Jesus is not in the building : the syntax and semantics in New testament Greek

1993

Ellen Crofts

The pancake falls down onto his head : postpositions to preverbs in Hungarian

1993

Adi Merwan Hastings

An ocean, verily is the world : mantras and metapragmatics in two South Asian ritual traditions

1993

Daniel Suslak

Linguistic convergence in Guayabal Zoque

1992

Jared Louis Blank

The Abstract and the epiphenomenal : A thesis on the philosophy of linguistics

1992

Matthew Pearson

On the peculiar behaviour of the Swedish s-passive : relation-changing operations and the analysis of multifunctional surface markers

1992

L. Allen Poole

Not "just a bunch of ducks" : a study of syntactic variation and gender in Cleveland High School seniors

1992

John Worsley

What's your viewpoint? : A study of lexical and grammatical aspect in Classical Greek

1989

Ted Slupesky

Deixis and anaphora in the Homeric dialect