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Jing Gao – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation I investigate the Mandarin "you"-existential sentence. My focus is on its syntax. I also discuss in less detail some semantic peculiarity of the "you"-existential. I begin my investigation of the syntax of "you"-existentials by first looking into what they are not. To this end, I present five…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Syntax, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
Maho Takahashi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation features a relative clause island, whose status has been known to differ significantly across languages and extraction types. By conducting a series of acceptability judgment experiments with human participants, as well as measuring token-by-token surprisal values among large language models, I demonstrate the following: First,…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics, Decision Making, Task Analysis
Jiayi Lu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Speakers display considerable variability in language use and representations: they may have different pronunciations of the same word, different intended meanings for the same phrases, and different sets of syntactic constraints in their internalized grammars. Comprehenders adapt to such variability by constantly updating their expectations for…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Phrase Structure, Grammar, Syntax
Geoff D. Green II – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Due in part to its complex nature, there is still much to uncover in the investigation of the neural processes that contribute to synchronization between speakers and listeners during communication in the context of social cognition, specifically between native and nonnative English speakers and listeners. This study used a novel method of…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Auditory Perception
Misato Hiraga – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation developed a new learner corpus of Japanese and introduced an error and linguistic annotation scheme specifically designed for Japanese particles. The corpus contains texts written by learners who are in the first year to fourth year university level Japanese courses. The texts in the corpus were tagged with part-of-speech and…
Descriptors: Japanese, Computational Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Error Analysis (Language)
Adam Liter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation presents a series of case studies concerned with whether the signal in a given set of measurements that we take in the course of linguistic inquiry reflects grammatical competence or performance factors. We know that performance and competence do not always covary, yet it is not uncommon to assume that measurements that we take…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grammar, Linguistic Competence, Measurement Techniques
Vadella, Katherine Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Since the inception of Distributed Morphology (Halle & Marantz, 1993), there have been two notable, but preliminary, analyses of Spanish gender and word class within this framework: Harris (1999) and Kramer (2015). This dissertation fills in the gaps left by these partial analyses for nominals in particular. It presents a novel word class…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Spanish, Nouns, Morphemes
Jennifer Hu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Language is one of the hallmarks of intelligence, demanding explanation in a theory of human cognition. However, language presents unique practical challenges for quantitative empirical research, making many linguistic theories difficult to test at naturalistic scales. Artificial neural network language models (LMs) provide a new tool for studying…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Computational Linguistics, Models, Language Research
Rill, Justin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation seeks to answer three loosely-related questions regarding ergativity. First, what is the nature of the morphological phenomena known as ERG=GEN and ERG=POSS? After providing a thorough description with ample data from a wide range of sources, a typological survey of 40 ergative languages concludes that together, they are a fairly…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Language Classification, Language Research
Pietraszko, Joanna – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This thesis is a study of the syntax of multi-verb constructions, in which a single clause contains more than one verbal element. Multi-verb constructions are of special interest in light of the hypothesis that clausal structure is headed by a verb. Implemented in terms of extended projections, this hypothesis states that clausal functional…
Descriptors: African Languages, Verbs, Syntax, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Sigurdsson, Einar Freyr – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation places case, agreement and Voice phenomena in syntax. It argues that the derivation is driven by so-called derivational features, that is, structure-building features (Merge) and probe features (Agree) (Heck and Muller 2007 and Muller 2010; see also Chomsky 2000, 2001). Both types are essential in deriving case and agreement in…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Syntax, Morphology (Languages), Vocabulary
Kerry Christine McCullough – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation investigates a typologically rare linguistic phenomenon found in Irish from three different perspectives: how it challenges phonological theory, how it is used by contemporary speakers, and how its written representation affects its acquisition. Initial consonant mutation (ICM), as it appears in the Celtic languages, is known to…
Descriptors: Phonology, Irish, Pronunciation, Language Research
Potter, David – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Ellipsis plays a key role in the understanding of the relationship between what is uttered and what is understood. In elliptical utterances, less is said than is understood. How is it that a mere fragment of a sentence can be understood as something more? This dissertation explores the syntax of one type of elliptical phenomena, Stripping. A…
Descriptors: Syntax, Form Classes (Languages), Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Sentence Structure
Fowlie, Meaghan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Adjuncts and arguments exhibit different syntactic behaviours, but modelling this difference in minimalist syntax is challenging: on the one hand, adjuncts differ from arguments in that they are optional, transparent, and iterable, but on the other hand they are often strictly ordered, reflecting the kind of strict selection seen in argument…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Syntax, Form Classes (Languages), Language Research
Meyer, Bradley B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Large scale product and service reviews proliferate and are commonly found across the web. The ability to harvest, digest and analyze a large corpus of reviews from online websites is still however a difficult problem. This problem is referred to as "opinion mining." Opinion mining is an important area of research as advances in the…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Research, Language Patterns, Web Sites