Children exposed to adversity (e.g., chronic poverty, traumatic events, child maltreatment) are at increased risk for performing below age-expectations on norm-referenced language assessments, but it is unknown whether the risk is higher for specific language impairment. Previou…
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Sakun (Sukur) is a Chadic language from the Biu-Mandara branch spoken by approximately 20,000 people in and around the UNESCO Sukur World Heritage site in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Previous work on Sakun is limited to wordlists collected by ethnographers and archaeologists working…
The Santa (or Dongxiang) nationality is one of the fifty-five officially recognized national minorities of the People's Republic of China. Numbering over 370,000 according to the 1992 census (Grimes 1992), the Santa live in southern Gansu Province in the arid and mountainous Don…
This dissertation treats the development of functional categories in early child grammar. Based on early child English data which lack functional elements such as verb inflections, complementizers, and (in) definite articles, Radford (1990) among others claimed that functional c…
In my dissertation I analyze the contrast between the pre and postverbal subject positions in Spanish declarative, interrogative and relative sentences under minimalist assumptions (Chomsky, 1995). There are three basic proposals that I defend in this dissertation: First, that S…
The longest, and some would say most complicated, of all the psalms in the Psalter, Ps119 has intimidated and confused biblical scholars through the centuries. Most often examined for the purposes of determining either its form-critical Gattung or its understanding of torah, Ps …
The dissertation Poetry and Grammar in the Works of Eleazar be-rabbi Qillir—A Grammatical Analysis of Selected Liturgical Poems, written under the direction of Professor Lawrence Schiffman, is concerned with investigating a corpus of several thousand lines of poetry, selected fr…
This dissertation is concerned with three primary issues: (i) the distribution and function of inflectional morphemes in Korean, (ii) the syntactic placement and semantic interpretation of the inflectional morphemes, and (iii) their interactions with Universal Grammar. In discus…
Polarity items are linguistic forms whose distributions are sensitive to negation and other polarity contexts. This dissertation offers a compositional account of what it means to be a polarity item and why polarity items are sensitive to polarity. The grammar of polarity sensit…
This thesis documents the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and its contribution to the learning experience of students studying Arabic as a foreign language. The goal of this project is to build an Intelligent Computer Assist…
The present study undertook to address two questions: (1) are there any age-relatable relationships between the spoken and written syntax of adolescent students within a mainstream secondary school? (2) are there any relationships associated with the educational attainment of th…
Since 1921 England’s governments have commissioned enquiries into English and literacy teaching, leading towards published recommendations and requirements for English grammar teaching. Governments’ officially sanctioned publications represent their policy aspirations for Englis…
This thesis advocates a modular and parallel grammar architecture with declarative constraints on the syntactic, semantic, prosodic, and pragmatic structures which are derived in parallel while mutually constraining one another as proposed by Jackendoff (1997, 2002). The main cl…
The present study describes the grammatical structure of Sidaama, a Highland East Cushitic language spoken in the south-central part of Ethiopia. Sidaama is spoken by over 1,800,000 people, but there has been relatively little research on the language. Chapter 1 (introduction) g…
This dissertation analyzes two derived Biblical Hebrew verbal forms, the Niphal and the Hitpael. Present scholarship on Biblical Hebrew does not agree on the definition or relationship of these two stems. In chapter 1 I outline the two major problems for the Niphal and Hitpael: …
This dissertation shows that the generalizations that speakers project from the lexical exceptions of their language are biased to be natural and output-oriented, and it offers a model of the grammar that derives these biases by encoding lexical exceptions in terms of lexically-…
Tigre is spoken by between 10 and 20 percent of the approximately 3.8 million inhabitants of Eritrea (East Africa). While there are a dozen Tigre-speaking groups, only one dialect, that of the Mensa' ethnic group, has been recorded grammatically, lexically, and textually. The re…
What is an expression that can express that which cannot be expressed? Logic and grammar will declare it to be an impossibility and its expression, a mistaken use of language. Yet, humanity's archive persistently attests to both the legitimacy of the inexpressible expression and…
This thesis is a detailed investigation of the phonology and phonetics of the intonation of Persian carried out in the framework of the AM theory of intonational phonology. Based on 2112 utterances read by a total of 8 native speakers, the work, on the one hand, presents a phono…