• 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 ...
• Not All Cows Moo 

  Perkoff, E. Margaret (2015)

  The goal of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of onomatopoeic words that symbolize animal cries in four different languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Japanese. Each language is first analyzed ...
• Syntax and Semantics of Counterfactuals in Mandarin Chinese and English 

  Nisbet, Gregory (2014)
• Huichol (Wixarika) Word Accent: Typology, Interactions, and Implications 

  Banerji, Robindra Nath (2015)

  The analysis of systems of tone, stress, and intonation in the world's languages is a center of debate in modem phonology. While prototypical cases of stress languages such as English and tone languages such as Yoruba ...
• 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 ...
• Reduplication in Singapore Colloquial Language 

  Cho, Hyuneui (2013)

  Reduplication is one of the most distinctive features of Singapore Colloquial English (Singlish). Nouns, verbs, and adjectives are often repeated twice or more to form reduplication. Most scholars have agreed on each ...
• Morpheme Use in Late Talkers at Age 5 

  Turner, Hannah L. (2013)

  It has been widely observed that some children struggle to acquire language. Of particular interest to the current study is the subset of children who, although developmentally typical in every other domain, fail to begin ...
• The Intersection of the Phonologies of Standard American English and African American Vernacular English as Seen Through Orthography 

  Letts, Allison (2012)

  This thesis addresses the orthography of young African American Vernacular English speakers. The subjects are first grade students at a charter school in Philadelphia, and the study examines the relationship between the ...

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