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Louward Allen M. Zubiri – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The dissertation presents a pioneering investigation into child speech among Bikolano children. It aims to address the underdescription and underdocumentation of Child Bikol as spoken in the Philippines. Bikol, an Austronesian macrolanguage, often coexists with more dominant languages, making Bikolano children both emergent multilinguals and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Native Language, Multilingualism
Ali Alasmari – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study explored the role of Arabic diglossia in the language production of Saudi learners of English as a second language, specifically in regard to the effect context formality has on the rate of negative transfer of certain morphosyntactic structures from Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Saudi Arabic (SA). Similar to other varieties of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Bilingualism, Foreign Countries, Arabic
Taryn R. Malcolm – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Bilingualism in Jamaica is of considerable consequence, as most individuals are early bilinguals, speaking both a variety of Jamaican Creole (JC) from birth and having standardized English (sE) as the language of instruction in education. Immigrants from Jamaica to the United States are an ideal population to examine how cross-linguistic influence…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Bilingualism, Foreign Countries
Diogo R. L. S. Cosme – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The Portuguese present perfect (P-PP) is an understudied topic in the field of generative language acquisition. In the past decade, Third Language Acquisition (L3A) has enjoyed special attention in studying how multilingualism works. Researchers have concentrated on the examination of the source of transfer at the initial stages. However, there is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, Portuguese
Jiao, Jian – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This project examined the acquisition of third person accusative clitics in Spanish by Chinese-speaking learners. Specifically, it focused on the role of cross-linguistic influence and patterns of language exposure and use in the acquisition of the syntactic and semantic properties constraining the production and intuition of overt and null…
Descriptors: Spanish, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
Lee, Hyunjung – ProQuest LLC, 2022
English Medium Instruction (EMI) in university courses is expected to have positive effects on university students' English language learning in non-English-speaking countries since they can learn English on campus (Macaro, 2018). For successful second language learning, efficient use of second language (L2) learning strategies is essential (Cohen…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Gomez, Antonio Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The present study contributes to our understanding of the effects of age and type of linguistic input in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language in adulthood. I examine the Spanish syntax (word order) of three groups of speakers, monolingual Spanish speakers from Mexico and two bilingual English-Spanish speakers born and raised in the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English
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)
Mohammad H. Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Writing proper English sentences poses a significant challenge for Arabic-speaking postsecondary students studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL) due to substantial differences between Arabic and English syntactic structures. This basic qualitative study explored the perceptions of Arabic-speaking EFL learners at an Arabian university…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Arabic
Asikin-Garmager, Eli Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation provides a formal and functional analysis of grammatical voice in Sasak, an Austronesian language spoken in Eastern Indonesia. The research addresses two primary questions, which are (1) how does Sasak clause structure and morphosyntax vary across dialects? and (2) what shapes speakers' syntactic production, namely grammatical…
Descriptors: Malayo Polynesian Languages, Foreign Countries, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Ingason, Anton Karl – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation defends a strong version of the view that linguistic surface complexity is the product of interactions between deep syntactic mechanisms and shallow interface-specific mechanisms. I argue that current developments in the theory of locality in Distributed Morphology (Embick 2010, Marantz 2013) impose boundaries on syntactic…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Syntax, Morphology (Languages), Morphemes
Rood, Morgan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation investigates the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase in Mehri, a Modern South Arabian (Semitic) language spoken in Yemen and Oman. Using the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM), I focus on pronominal possessors and diminutive constructions while addressing themes of syncretism, concord, contextual allomorphy and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Foreign Countries
Hatfield, Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This is a grammar which provides a detailed linguistic description of the phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse, lexicon and cultural environment of the Mehek language and its speakers. Mehek is a language spoken in Papua New Guinea by approximately 6300 people. It belongs to the Sepik language family, Tama branch. The theoretical background…
Descriptors: Grammar, Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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)
Pozzi, Rebecca – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The study abroad (SA) experience is often viewed as an opportunity to gain proficiency in a foreign language due to immersion in the target language and culture. Nevertheless, the increased amount of research conducted on SA over the last two decades indicates that it does not necessarily lead to gains in all areas (Collentine & Freed, 2004;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Spanish, Dialects