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Douglas John Getty – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Given that both spoken and written language are subject to corruption from speech errors, disfluencies, and environmental noise, successful language comprehension sometimes requires deriving a non-veridical understanding of the linguistic input. Recent work has demonstrated that these non-veridical understandings are not merely semantic, but that,…
Descriptors: Priming, Linguistic Input, Comprehension, Structural Linguistics
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)
Duncan, Philip T. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation explores aspects of Me'phaa morphosyntax, from verb roots to verb-initial word orders. I argue that patterns of agreement map directly onto the syntax of argument structure, which in turn feed the language's unique manifestation of ergativity. Me'phaa agreement morphology is richly complex, and I show that this is due, in part,…
Descriptors: Role, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Phrase Structure
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
Valdivia Ruiz, Victor Alfredo – ProQuest LLC, 2016
From a usage-based approach, this dissertation explores the relationship between structural variability and discourse subjectivity in a series of interviews from the "New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish Survey" (Bills and Vigil 2008). Focusing on the use of cognitive and speech verbs, the analysis will demonstrate that a) structural…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Interviews, Spanish
Predolac, Esra – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines primarily the syntactic, but also the semantic/pragmatic behavior of sentential complement clauses in Turkish and proposes a new classification of such complements. A head-final language, Turkish lacks an overt, lexical complementizer akin to English "that". The most frequent types of sentential complementation…
Descriptors: Turkish, Syntax, Semantics, Phrase Structure
Manlove, Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In this dissertation I set out to solve a series of puzzles related to the notion of a DP periphery, defined as an area around the edge of a given domain targeted by operations such as movement and agreement. In solving these puzzles, I argue for a peripheral area in the nominal domain. Early arguments for a peripheral boundary in the nominal…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Puzzles
Frazer, Alexandra Kate – ProQuest LLC, 2016
We still know surprisingly little about how grammatical structures are selected for use in sentence production. A major debate concerns whether structural selection is competitive or noncompetitive. Competitive accounts propose that alternative structures or structural components actively suppress one another's activation until one option reaches…
Descriptors: Grammar, Syntax, Hypothesis Testing, Language Research
Al Bukhari, Juman – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The syntax of Arabic elliptical constructions is unsettled, as there are few studies that have been done in the Arabic descriptive literature, as well as in Jordanian Arabic (henceforth, JA) specifically. Therefore, this paper will investigate some elliptical constructions in JA in particular to figure out the analysis of these constructions. In…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semitic Languages, Language Research, Form Classes (Languages)
Shirtz, Shahar Baruch – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This is a study of processes of structural and functional diversification of the uses of three cognate verbs across the Indo-Iranian language family: "do/make", "be/become", and "give". First, this study identifies over sixty distinct construction types in which these verbs are used, including complex predicate…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Heaton, Raina – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation presents the results of a typological study that investigated the global distribution of antipassive constructions, as well as the distribution of the relevant antipassiverelated features. The sample includes data from 445 languages, which represent 144 language families and isolates. This larger study is informed by an in-depth…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Classification, Language Research, Form Classes (Languages)
Courtney, Sarah Gray – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines complementizer agreement (CA) phenomena in which phi-features appear on a complementizer, clause-linking marker, or otherwise, syntactically speaking, at the C[superscript 0] position. This dissertation will argue that CA is in fact a straightforward output of the syntax module under standard Minimalist assumptions, and…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Diachronic Linguistics, Syntax, Computational Linguistics
Pacchiarotti, Sara – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation first addresses various shortcomings in definitions of "applicative" when compared to what is actually found across languages. It then proposes a four-way distinction among applicative constructions, relevant at least to Bantu, a large family of languages spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa. Because of the gradual nature of…
Descriptors: African Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Morphemes
DiGirolamo, Cara Masten – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation approaches the idea of lexical types such as word, clitic and affix from an oblique angle. Starting with Cardinaletti & Starke's (1999) diagnostics for the Weak Pronoun, I deconstruct the category of clitic, breaking it down into two binary qualities: the syntactic primitive of being linked to a head of a different basic…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Form Classes (Languages)
Ahmed, Hossam Eldin Ibrahim – ProQuest LLC, 2015
A class of Modern Standard Arabic complementizers known as "'?inna' and its sisters" demonstrate unique case and word order restrictions. While CPs in Arabic allow both Subject-Verb (SV) and Verb-Subject (VS) word order and their subjects show nominative morphology, CPs introduced by "?inna" ban a verb from directly following…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Word Order, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)