Linguistics
Linguistics Department Dissertations Collection
DISSERTATIONS FROM 2007
- The sources of phonological markedness, Kathryn Gilbert Flack
- The emergence of phonetic naturalness, Shigeto Kawahara
- Biases and stages in phonological acquisition, Anne-Michelle Tessier
- Acquisition of scalar implicatures, Anna VerBuk
DISSERTATIONS FROM 2006
- Disjunction in alternative semantics, Luis Alonso-Ovalle
- Acquisition of a natural versus an unnatural stress system, Angela C Carpenter
- Asymmetries in the acquisition of consonant clusters, Della Chambless
- Variables in natural language, Meredith Lizabeth Landman
DISSERTATIONS FROM 2005
- On the accessiblity of possible worlds: The role of tense and aspect, Ana Cristina Arregui
- Perception of foreignness, Ben Gelbart
- Prosody and LF interpretation: Processing Japanese wh-questions, Masako Hirotani
- The grammar of choice, Paula Menendez-Benito
- Mediated modification: Functional structure and the interpretation of modifier position, Marcin Morzycki
DISSERTATIONS FROM 2004
- What it means to be a loser: Non-optimal candidates in Optimality Theory, Andries W Coetzee
- Scope: The view from indefinites, Ji-Yung Kim
- Event-structure and the internally-headed relative clause construction in Korean and Japanese, Min-Joo Kim
- On the articulation of aspectual meaning in African-American English, Jules Michael Eugene Terry
DISSERTATIONS FROM 2003
- Deriving economy: Syncope in Optimality Theory, Maria Gouskova
- Gestures and segments: Vowel intrusion as overlap, Nancy Elizabeth Hall
- The development of phonological categories in children's perception of final voicing in dialects of English, Caroline Jones
- Argument structure and the lexicon/syntax interface, Eva Juarros
- Contrast preservation in phonological mappings, Anna Lubowicz
- Downtrends and post-focus intonation in Tokyo Japanese, Mariko Sugahara
DISSERTATIONS FROM 2002
- The processing of Italian subject pronouns, Maria Nella Carminati
- Quantifying the sonority hierarchy, Stephen G Parker
- Phonological augmentation in prominent positions, Jennifer L Smith
DISSERTATIONS FROM 2001
- Phonological constraints on the segmentation of continuous speech, Cecilia Jennifer Kirk
- Wh-constructions in Japanese, Junko Shimoyama
DISSERTATIONS FROM 2000
- The processing of tense, Michael Walsh Dickey
- The acquisition of sequence of tense, Bartjan Hollebrandse
- Split case marking and prominence relations, Andre G Isaak
- Topics in ellipsis, Bernhard Schwarz
- The syntax and morphology of Japanese verbal nouns, Mari Takahashi
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1999
- Morphologically governed accent in optimality theory, John D Alderete
- The comprehension of English subject-verb agreement, Patricia Lynn Deevy
- Tense in embedded contexts, Kiyomi Kusumoto
- Comparatives and DP-structure, Winfried Lechner
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1998
- Positional faithfulness, Jill N Beckman
- The syntax and interpretation of non-canonical argument positions, Elena Elvira Benedicto
- Evidence for phonological categories from speech perception, Jose Ramon Benki
- Focus and reconstruction effects in wh-phrases, Maribel Romero
- The interpretation of quantifiers: Semantics and processing, Susanne Lynn Tunstall
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1997
- Towards a compositional interpretation of English statement and question intonation, Christine Bartels
- Transderivational identity, Laura Benua
- The phonology of liquids, Laura Walsh Dickey
- Phonology with ternary scales, Amalia Elisabeth Gnanadesikan
- Osage phonology and verbal morphology, Carolyn Faye Quintero
- Prosodic parsing: The role of prosody in sentence comprehension, Amy Jean Schafer
- Focusing effects and NP interpretation in VP ellipsis, Satoshi Tomioka
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1996
- Clausal architecture and case in Iceland, Johannes Gisli Jonsson
- Patterns of reduplication in Lushootseed, Suzanne Claire Urbanczyk
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1995
- The role of syntactic categories in anaphora, Tohru Noguchi
- Noun phrase licensing and interpretation, Jeffrey Thomas Runner
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1994
- The Germanic VO languages and the full paradigm: A theory of V to I raising, Bernhard Wolfgang Rohrbacher
- Vowel/glide alternation in a theory of constraint interaction, Samuel Rosenthall
- Prosodic phonotactics, Tim D Sherer
- Restrictions on quantifier domains, Kai-Uwe Von Fintel
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1993
- Root and epistemic modal auxiliary verbs, Virginia Mary Brennan
- Predicates across categories: Towards a category-neutral syntax, Rose-Marie Anne Dechaine
- Control and arbitrary interpretation in English, Noriko Kawasaki
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1992
- Situation theory and the semantics of propositional expressions, Paul Howard Portner
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1991
- On the semantics and logical form of wh-clauses, Stephen Robert Berman
- Laryngeal features and laryngeal neutralization, Linda Lombardi
- Topics in the phonology of Irish, Maire Ni Chiosain
- Stricture in feature geometry, Jaye Edward Padgett
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1990
- The syntactic roots of semantic partition, Molly Diesing
- Topics in the phonology and morphology of Navajo verbs, Joyce Mary McDonough
- Japanese phrase structure and parameter setting, Masanobu Ueda
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1989
- Adjunct infinitives in English, Alison K Huettner
- Deriving syntactic representations in Finnish, Anne Marjatta Vainikka
- The language of propositions and events: Issues in the syntax and the semantics of nominalization, Alessandro Zucchi
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1987
- ANTI-QUANTIFIERS AND A THEORY OF DISTRIBUTIVITY, JAE-WOONG CHOE
- Tone and the structure of words in Shona, Scott P Myers
- MODAL SUBORDINATION, ANAPHORA, AND DISTRIBUTIVITY, CRAIGE ROBERTS
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1986
- TOPICS IN THE LEXICAL PHONOLOGY OF ENGLISH, TONI JEAN BOROWSKY
- SYLLABLE THEORY IN PROSODIC PHONOLOGY, JUNKO ITO
- SUBJECTS IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH, YOSHIHISA KITAGAWA
- STUDIES IN TIER STRUCTURE, R. ARMIN MESTER
- THE FORMAL SEMANTICS OF POINT OF VIEW, JONATHAN EDWARD MITCHELL
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1985
- SYNTAX AND THEMATICS OF INFINITIVAL ADJUNCTS, CHARLES FOSTER JONES
- ASSOCIATION WITH FOCUS (MONTAGUE GRAMMAR, SEMANTICS, ONLY, EVEN), MATS EDWARD ROOTH
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1984
- TOPICS IN THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF INFINITIVES AND GERUNDS, GENNARO CHIERCHIA
- STUDIES IN GENERALIZED BINDING (SYNTAX, GRAMMAR, PREDICATION), JAMES DAVID PUSTEJOVSKY
- SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF RESUMPTIVE PRONOUNS, PETER SELLS
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1982
- THE SEMANTICS OF DEFINITE AND INDEFINITE NOUN PHRASES, IRENE ROSWITHA HEIM
- MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, JANET H RANDALL
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1980
- THE SYNTAX AND INTERPRETATION OF THE RELATIVE CLAUSE CONSTRUCTION IN SWAHILI, CAMILLIA NEVADA BARRETT KEACH
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1978
- THE 'EASY' CLASS OF ADJECTIVES IN ENGLISH, DEBORAH LINETT NANNI
- A THEORY OF STYLISTIC RULES IN ENGLISH, MICHAEL SHAUN ROCHEMONT
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1977
- REFERENCE TO KINDS IN ENGLISH, GREGORY NORMAN CARLSON
- ENGLISH WH-CONSTRUCTIONS AND THE THEORY OF GRAMMAR, JANE BARBARA GRIMSHAW
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1976
- THE PHONOLOGY OF EGYPTIAN ARABIC, ELLEN I BROSELOW
DISSERTATIONS FROM 1975
- MONTAGUE'S SEMANTIC THEORY AND TRANSFORMATIONAL SYNTAX, ROBIN HAYES COOPER
