Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
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Resolving Hiatus
1st Edition
By Roderic F. Casali
September 30, 2021
First published in 1998. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this work looks at the analysis of elision directionaility and the correlation between the active value of (ATR) in a language and the language's vowel inventory. The paper develops the idea of ATR Predictability....
Laryngeal Cooccurrence Restrictions
1st Edition
By Margaret R. MacEachern
January 17, 2019
This study presents an analysis of laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions within an Optimality Theory framework. The book will be of interest to phonologists concerned with word- or morpheme-level cooccurrence restrictions, the Obligatory Contour Principle, or Optimality Theory. ; First published in ...
Confessions of a Lapsed Neo-Davidsonian: Events and Arguments in Compositional Semantics
1st Edition
By Samuel L. Bayer
January 27, 2017
First Published in 1997. The purpose of this doctoral study was to address the properties of thematic roles in the context of an event semantics. With specific interest in whether it was possible to show that thematic roles were indispensable objects in compositional semantics, and what a syntax/...
An Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition
1st Edition
By Robert Kirchner
November 24, 2016
The first serious typological survey of the lenition process in modern phonological literature....
Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference: A Comparative Study of Dutch and Spanish
1st Edition
By Sergio Baauw
November 18, 2016
This book discusses to what extent errors young children make with their interpretation of definite articles and pronouns are due to their immature pragmatic skills, and to what extent incomplete syntactic development plays a role....
Reassessing the Role of the Syllable in Italian Phonology: An Experimental Study of Consonant Cluster Syllabification, Definite Article Allomorphy, and Segment Duration
1st Edition
By Kristie McCrary Kambourakis
October 19, 2016
This book evaluates the predictions of syllable-based analyses of Italian in three domains: native speaker intuition of consonant cluster syllabification, definite article allomorphy, and segment duration, and tests the claimed convergence of multiple phenomena on the same syllable structure....
Accent & Syllable Structure in Passamaquoddy
1st Edition
By Philip S. LeSourd
August 26, 2016
First published in 1993. The focus of this study is a set of related problems in the phonology of Passamaquoddy involving stress assignment and syncope. Both of these processes make a distinction between stressable and unstressable vowels....
Long-Distance Dependencies
1st Edition
By Mihoko Zushi
August 09, 2016
This book investigates the theory of locality within the framework of minimalism, with a special focus on restructuring and other related phenomena that exhibit an apparent violation of the strictly local conditions....
Autosegmental Representation in a Declarative Constraint-Based Framework
1st Edition
By James M. Scobbie
August 03, 2016
First Published in 1998. Since the original appearance of this thesis there have been enormous changes in phonology. The phrase 'constraint-based phonology' has almost universal coverage now, it would seem. This study is not solely about constraint-based phonology, as the title of the book ...
A Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching
1st Edition
By Jeff MacSwan
July 29, 2016
First Published in 1999. Code switching is widely used in bilingual communities worldwide, and has been found in government documents, literature, religious works, and song. Pursuing this aim here, chapter 1 addresses the relevance of the study of code switching for education and schooling, ...
Grammatical Case Assignment in Finnish
1st Edition
By Diane C. Nelson
July 27, 2016
First Published in 1998. This book is a revision of the author’s 1995 University of Edinburgh dissertation entitled X° Categories and Grammatical Case Assignment in Finnish . This work provides a structural account for patterns of grammatical case in Finnish within the Principles and Parameters ...
Positional Faithfulness: An Optimality Theoretic Treatment of Phonological Asymmetries
1st Edition
By Jill N. Beckman
July 27, 2016
First published in 1999. This study developed from a dissertation in 1993, when the author undertook what she thought would be a simple Optimality Theory analysis of Shona vowel harmony. Having initially treated Shona height harmony as a case of featural alignment, akin to Kirchner's 1993 analysis ...