This dissertation investigates the semantic and pragmatic characterization of the evidential morphology in Turkish. That evidentials are parasitic to tense/aspect morphology is well noted (Izvroski 1997, Matthewson et al. 2007 a.o.), and the traditional literature describes the …
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This study offers a semantic analysis of the Biblical Hebrew verbal system with respect to the parameters of tense, aspect, and modality. As linguistic understanding of these universal categories increases, the way is opened up to reevaluate past work on the Biblical Hebrew verb…
Greek word order variations are yet to be explained by consistently applied principles of linguistic theory. Many in the past have attempted to account for this phenomenon only to express disappointment in their own conclusions. Such findings surely establish Greek word order as…
This dissertation presents a theory of resumption based on semantic composition. The theory achieves a unified explanation of resumptive pronouns and copy raising. The basis is two key claims: (1) the pronouns in resumption are ordinary pronouns, (2) natural language is resource…
The study investigates the semantic formulas used by Saudi and American male undergraduate students in the speech act of refusal. The data were collected through a DCT questionnaire and were analyzed as consisting of semantic formulas following Beebe and Cummings (1985). The res…
Determining the semantic content of sentences, and uncovering regularities between linguistic form and meaning, requires attending to both morphological and syntactic properties of a language with an eye to the notional categories that the various pieces of form express. In this…
Pluractionality, a specific type of event plurality, is at best only partially understood. In this thesis, I survey four pluractional languages in order to compare and contrast them in search of generalizations across the pluractional strategies. I divide the pluractional marker…
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 …
This dissertation investigates the semantics of existential sentences (existentials) such as (1). (1) There's whiskey in the jar. Most semantic literature on existentials has focused on the so-called definiteness effect (DE), namely the observation that certain NP types do not e…
Scholars have given the study of Biblical Hebrew words, and especially verbs, a great amount of attention. Work on lexicons of Biblical Hebrew, theological dictionaries and various articles in journals give important details about individual verbs that appear in the Hebrew Bible…
This dissertation is about physio-psychological concept expressions in Anlo Ewe, a Niger Congo language of the (new) Kwa branch. The term "physio-psychological" is a cover term for expressions of physiological, as well as psychological experiential phenomena. Physiological conce…
This dissertation is an investigation into the syntax and lexical semantics of the phenomenon of first conjunct agreement (FCA) as it occurs in Russian. An in-depth look at FCA sheds light on the structure of conjunction and its interaction with predicate-argument agreement, as …
Drawing upon intrinsic linguistic and cultural premises, the present study is an attempt to explore semantic and pragmatic failure, evidently and frequently arising while translating literary texts. This researcher has adopted a functional approach that hinges upon basic semanti…
Metaphors raise several problems for semantic theory and the philosophy of language. How, for example, is metaphorical language distinguished from literal language? Do metaphors have a linguistic or semantic meaning beyond the literal meaning of the words? Are metaphors either t…
The purpose of this work was the exploration of the meanings and significance of the concept of shalom (XXxx) through an examination and analysis of key references in the Hebrew Bible. In other words, this writer sought to highlight and underscore the authorial intent of shalom …
In forming wh-questions, Egyptian Arabic (EA) exhibits apparent optional wh-movement whereby both options of fronting the wh-phrase or leaving it in situ are possible. I argue in this dissertation that optionality in EA wh-question formation does not contradict minimalist assump…
Egyptian Arabic sentences with active participle predicates license past, present, and future adverbials even though these sentences encode only the present tense. In this dissertation, I argue that the logical forms of sentences with active participle predicates involve existen…
Engineering design involves a series of activities to handle data, including capturing and storing data, retrieval and manipulation of data. This also applies throughout the entire product lifecycle (PLC). Unfortunately, a closed loop of knowledge and information management syst…
This dissertation is about the nature of perspectival thoughts and the context-sensitivity of the language used to express them. It focuses on two kinds of perspectival thoughts: ‘subjective' evaluative thoughts about matters of personal taste, such as 'Beetroot is delicious' or…