Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
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Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory
1st Edition
By Katherine Crosswhite
November 22, 2001
This book examines the phenomenon of vowel reduction, in which two or more underlying vowel qualities are neutralized in unstressed position....
Phonological Relations Between Words
1st Edition
By Laura Benua
May 24, 2001
This book develops the hypothesis that morphologically-related words are required to be phonologically identical by ranked and violable constraints....
The Clausal Structure of Spanish: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Francisco Ordonez
August 31, 2000
This work studies various aspects of word order and clause structure in Spanish that have proved problematic for syntactic theory. These aspects are explored theoretically in light of the antisymmetry approach of Kayne (1994) and empirically by examining parallel structures in related languages. ...
Aspect, Eventuality Types and Nominal Reference
1st Edition
By Hana Filip
May 25, 2000
First published in 1999. This book examines the interplay between the semantics of noun phrases and verbal predicates, with an emphasis on data drawn from Czech and English, and comparisons to German and Finnish. This book will be of interest to a wide range of linguists concerned with aspect and ...
Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative
1st Edition
By Eric Potsdam
June 16, 1998
First Published in 1998. This work is an unrevised version of my 1996 University of California, Santa Cruz Ph.D. dissertation. The only changes that have been made are corrections of typographical errors, minor rewording, updating of references, and the inclusion of an index. I would like to thank ...
A Semantic and Pragmatic Model of Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
1st Edition
By Mari B. Olsen
July 01, 1997
First Published in 1997. This work studies two related phenomena in human language: the ability of verbs and other lexical items to describe how a situation (event or state) develops or holds in time (LEXICAL ASPECT) and the view some verbal auxiliaries and affixes present of the development or ...
Case Configuration and Noun Phrase Interpretation
1st Edition
By Helen Dehoop
June 17, 1997
First Published in 1997. The present study examines the relation between two types of structural Case on the one hand, and the interpretation of NPs on the other. The author argues that there are two types of structural Case, to wit weak D-structural and strong S-structural Case. The hypothesis ...
Complex Predicates in Japanese
1st Edition
By Chiharu Uda
March 04, 1994
Being an agglutinative language, Japanese abounds in complex predicate constructions, which consist of a verb stem or gerund followed by another morpheme. Some such morphemes are bound forms and occur only adjacent to a verb stem, while others are free forms in the sense that they have a ...
On the Syntax of Negation
1st Edition
By Itziar Laka
March 15, 1994
First Published in 1994. This is an investigation to explore certain syntactic phenomena induced by sentence negation in Basque and English. In this study of linguistics the author attempts to provide a unified account of them, based on a universal requirement on functional heads. The ...
Thematic Relations and Relational Grammar
1st Edition
By Patrick Farrell
February 14, 1994
First Published in 1994. This study explores a new approach to the design of a relational theory of grammar based on an inquiry into the nature of the relation between grammatical relations (GRs) such as subject and direct object and thematic relations (ORs) such as agent, theme, experiencer,...
Lexical Passives in Modern Greek
1st Edition
By Jane Smirniotopoulos
July 01, 1992
The study of passive constructions in various languages, particularly in English, has a long tradition in the linguistic literature. Among the theoretical issues which this literature addresses are: 1. questions involving the definition of passive (universal or language-specific) and diagnostics ...