"The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages is a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico). This handbook compiles a list of contributors from across many different …
Research on age and second language acquisition (L2A) is vast, but inconclusive. Such research has mainly been motivated by the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH), which postulates that language acquisition becomes extremely difficult after the onset of puberty. Also, there is a l…
This thesis begins with the observation that portions of words may be separated out and interpreted across a distance, as illustrated by the following examples: (1) These text tiers had boundaries that corresponded with the onset and offset of pre- and post-boundary syllables as…
The thesis presents a thorough investigation of major aspects of pronominal syntax and interpretation. The main goal of the study is to motivate multiple dimensions of pronominal analysis, including morphosyntactic and structural properties, and to delineate their significance t…
A Grammar of Gan Chinese: The Yichun Language
by Li, XuPing
fromSinitic Languages of China
This dissertation provides a description and analysis of salient aspects of the grammar of Tengger Javanese. The data collected for and described in this work is the result of the author's year and half long fieldwork in the volcanic highlands of the Tengger Massif in East Java,…
Almost every natural language contains support verb constructions that are language-specific. Their common function is to re-verbalize or verbalize nominals. As a result of nominalization, the original verb is deprived from its syntactic features, however it often retains many o…
This dissertation investigates a set of phenomena in Standard Arabic at the syntax-morphology interface, providing an analysis for each within the assumptions of the minimalist program, particularly those related to mechanisms of formal feature licensing. Among the issues discus…
This dissertation is an analysis of the morphosyntax of the Turkish causative construction within the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM). It is an attempt to capture a range of different phenomena in a principled way within this framework. Important aspects of DM for the a…