• The Impact of Teacher Education and Experience on Curriculum and Pedagogy to Sustain Linguistic Diversity and Accessibility 

  Asplundh, Marley (2019)

  This thesis investigates how teachers in American schools are informed by their own education and experience when teaching students with linguistic varieties different from their own. In order to investigate this, I observed ...
• DP-internal only in English and Russian 

  Fisher, Ian (2019)

  This paper presents an analysis of DP-internal only in English and Russian. I review the evidence in Coppock and Beaver (2012b, 2015) for definites containing only that do not presuppose uniqueness, and supplement it with ...
• Contrastive Focus on the Null Copula in African American English 

  Steliotes, Caroline (2018)

  In this thesis, I investigate the distribution of the null copula in African American English (AAE). Unlike previous accounts that have viewed the null copula as a purely phonological or syntactic phenomenon, I explore how ...
• "Siliminya, hello!" Negotiating Race, Place, and Language Ideologies in Post-Colonial Dalun, Ghana 

  Evans, Sabea (2018)

  This paper is an enthographic account of the motivating factors of language choice in Ghana through the lens of a community of Dagomba people in the rural town of Dalun in the Northern Region of Ghana. English-only education ...
• Double Classifiers in Navajo Verbs 

  Pronger, Lauren (2018)

  This thesis examines the phenomenon of double classifiers occurring in Navajo verbs. It analyzes these phenomena in the context of the phonological d-effect, and discusses possible reasons for the existence of double ...
• Perspectives on Language Endangerment: Zapotec Community Members Navigate the Future of their Language 

  Felker, Helen Margaret (2016)

  Although the empirical process of language loss has been well documented through statistical analysis and population demographics, the personal narratives of the individuals who speak these dying languages are rarely taken ...
• Conjunction in Colonial Valley Zapotec 

  Plumb, May Helena (2016)

  Colonial Valley Zapotec (CVZ) was spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico, dur- ing the colonial period; the language is attested a set of printed texts and handwritten documents. In this paper I discuss the four primary conjunctions ...
• The Mandarin Chinese de as a Type <e,t> Nominal Proform: A Syntax-Semantics Approach 

  Plesniak, Daniel H. (2016)

  In this paper, it is argued that the Mandarin Chinese particle de is analogous to the English pronoun one/ones. Initial evidence of this can be seen in the English sentence he likes red ones (as in, I like green shirts, ...
• Effects of Language Attitudes on Education in Arusha 

  Riffenburgh, Kelley (2015)

  This thesis examines language attitudes toward Swahili, English, and other languages in Tanzania. Swahili and English, Tanzania’s two official languages, are analyzed to a greater extent than other languages. However, the ...
• What’s in a Name: Toponyms as Linguistic Data for Historical Comparison 

  Peters, Elizabeth (2015)

  A full picture of the linguistic mechanics and social importance of a language can only be arrived at through study of both contemporary and historical states of that language. There are languages, however, for which data ...
• Hedging Discourse: Implications of Federal Reserve Policy Rhetoric 

  Tjing, Leslie (2015)

  Language, as a strategic policy-planning tool, can be meticulously controlled to frame policy decisions and condition policy interpretation. This thesis analyzes Federal Reserve policy rhetoric to understand how the Federal ...
• Syntax and Semantics of Counterfactuals in Mandarin Chinese and English 

  Nisbet, Gregory (2014)
• Language attitudes and literacy education: Seventeenth-century Paris and contemporary Philadelphia 

  Schwartz, Rebecca (2013)

  In this paper, I consider the interaction of societal language attitudes and children's literacy education, with attention to two particular societies: seventeenth-century Paris and contemporary Philadelphia. In both ...
• Let Buguns be Buguns: A Preliminary Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology of the Bugun Language 

  Lander-Portnoy, Maury (2013)
• Can Sesame Street bridge the Pacific Ocean? : Effects of American television on the Australian language 

  Miller, Cay (2002)
• Ski Lingo: Iconic and indexical metaphors as the building blocks of specialized vocabulary 

  Heher, Anneke (2014)
• Tolkien's Tongues: The Phonetics and Phonology of Tolkien's Quenya Language 

  Ryan, Kelsey (2014)

  J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings and other Middle Earth tales as well as Oxford professor of linguistics, constructed over 14 languages in the development of the background of his stories. This thesis will ...
• Fortis/Lenis Affricates in Colonial and Modern Valley Zapotec 

  Berklein, Flora (2014)

  This thesis focuses on the phonological connections between three modern varieties (Mitla, Isthmus, San Lucas Quiaviní of the Zapotec language and Colonial Valley Zapotec, a variety spoken roughly 500 years ago. Zapotec ...
• Morphosyntax and semantic type of noun phrases in Turkish 

  Walter, Micah John (2014)

  Chierchia (1998) proposed that the semantic type of nouns varies across languages: in some languages, nouns denote entities; in others, nouns denote predicates; in yet others, nouns of both types are attested. Chierchia ...
• Declaration, Childhood Understanding, and the Contents of Natural Language 

  Duncan, Robin (2013)

  We may reasonably expect that children as young as three years old understand the difference between socially constructed facts and bare facts of nature. This assumption is reasonable because children at this age do ...

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