• Going Right? Double Down! Mandarin Right Dislocation 

  Dong, Jinjie (2018)
• A Pragmatic Account of Demands for Recognition 

  Piscitelli, Lyra (2018)
• Nominal structure in Burmese 

  Schmidt, Benjamin (2018)

  A wide range of Burmese nominal data are considered. Selectional considerations support the structure of [N Num CI Q] that is presented, which itself mandates an analysis of twei and my a as quantifiers generated in Q ...
• Interpreting Minimalist Grammars 

  Mundo, Jake (2018)
• Lexical Tone and Melodic Pitch in the Music of Teotitlan del Valle Zapotec 

  Goldberg, Kathryn (2018)

  This study examines the relationship between lexical tone and melodic pitch in Teotitlim del Valle Zapotec (TdVZ), an endangered tone language in the Otomanguean language family, presenting an open corpus of three songs ...
• Incorporating Phonological Knowledge into a Computational Model for Language Family Homeland Identification 

  Shen, Ziting (2018)

  Several computational models have been proposed which hypothesize the geographical homeland of a language family in a quantitative manner. Aiming at identifying the homeland accurately for the world's language ...
• Free Handshape: A Proposed Mechanism for the Coining of Classifiers in ASL 

  Malin, Jacob; Zuckerman, David (2018)

  Classifier predicates are a linguistic form very well-represented in sign languages and possibly unique to the modality. In ASL, entity classifier predicates represent the motion or location of an entity, with the handshape ...
• A tale of BEI, JIAO, RANG, and GEI: a comparison and analysis of passive markers in Mandarin Chinese 

  Wang, Huilei (2018)

  The canonical passive marker bei in Mandarin Chinese has drawn a great deal of interest and attention in the past decades, yet not so much attention has been paid onto three other alternatives to bei-gei, jiao, and rang. ...
• How Black Male Identity is Sculpted Through Language in Light of Stigmatization and Stereotyping 

  Ford, Rebecca (2018)
• La mobilite du francais regional 

  DeBrine, Joseph E. (2018)
• The Intonational Phonology of Spoken Word Poetry 

  Crum, Abigail H. (2018)

  Most linguistic research on intonational phonology and poetry has been focused on traditional poetic intonation (Byers 1980, Barney 1999). This thesis expands this area of study to include the sub-genre of spoken word ...
• Blogs are the Mirrors to Ourselves: Examining Emerging Semantic Conventions in an Online World 

  Trupp, Gretchen (2018)
• Nominal Structure in Burmese 

  Schmidt, Benjamin (2018)

  A wide range of Burmese nominal data are considered. Selectional considerations support the structure of [N Num CI Q] that is presented, which itself mandates an analysis of twei and my a as quantifiers generated in Q ...
• A Pragmatic Account of Demands for Recognition 

  Piscitelli, Lyra (2018)
• The Vitality of the Hangzhou Dialect of Mandarin 

  Kandrysawtz, Kathy (2018)

  This paper describes a research project on the language attitudes of Hangzhou dialect (Hangzhouhua) speakers in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. 25 speakers completed an online survey and four speakers participated in ethnographic ...
• #Youknowyoublackwhen all you bring to the cookout is more black people and aluminum foil: Type as Racial Performance on Black Twitter 

  Howard, James (2018)

  In this thesis, I explore patterns of racial performance by Mrican Americans on Black Twitter by building on pragmatic and sociolinguistic frameworks for computer-mediated communication (CMC) analysis. Black Twitter is ...
• How Black Male Identity Is Sculpted Through Language in Light of Stigmatization and Stereotyping 

  Ford, Rebecca (2018)
• Coindexation under Attitude Complements 

  Faville, James (2018)

  Coindexed nominals within attitude complements appear unable to be read de re as distinct individuals, contrary to judgements previously reported in the literature. Most theories which derive de re interpretation of ...
• An Interface and Case Studies for Automatic Cognate Detection Methods 

  Collins, Kathryn J. (2018)
• 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 ...

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