Through a group of films from the late 60s and 70s which have been totally obliterated in the canonical studies about Spanish film due to their low technical quality and apparent triviality, this study focuses on their cultural impact, overwhelming production and extending consu…
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This study examines the role of the language cue on language selection in the Bilingual Language Production (BLP) Model, (Hermans, 2000; Poulisse & Bongaerts, 1994) and its relationship to the Language Mode (LM) model, (Grosjean, 1998). In order to examine the role of phonology …
This thesis examines the reception and translation relationships between Hebrew and Spanish in the sixteenth century. It focuses on Zarfati's reception of La Celestina, the fragment of Guevara's Relox de príncipes translated in Shevet Yehudah and Yoseph Ha-Kohen's translation of…
This dissertation employs a comparative method to examine the similarities between the church plans of Visigothic Iberia, the mid-sixth through the late-eighth century, and Anglo-Saxon Britain. The comparative study of these two architectural groups relies on evidence from the a…
Causative constructions, as found in many of the world's languages, are similar enough to invite a unified explanation and yet different enough to make such an explanation appear to be difficult. This study, realized within the framework of Relational Grammar, accounts for all t…
This dissertation explores the corpus of Spanish and Portuguese song contained in the eight principal manuscript sources of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Its purpose is to treat songs as cultural products which reflect, react to, or comment upon the culture o…
The research of this thesis was completed within the framework Chomskian's Principles and Parameters model of acquisition. A detailed analysis of individual production of null-subjects and pronouns in non-native Spanish speakers was carried out in order to determine its relation…
This dissertation is a literary and historical analysis of the concepts of Blackness and racial otherness as they are represented in Spanish literature from the Middle Ages through the Golden Age. While the presence of Muslims and Jews is well-known, and therefore, widely studie…
During the late 1700s and early 1800s in Spanish Florida, a successful maroon community developed within the walls of Prospect Bluff, a fort situated on the Apalachicola River. The community was originally established by the Spanish in order to provide resourcedeficient Florida …
The Spanish language is in contact with many languages throughout the world, from minority regional languages in the Iberian Peninsula to indigenous languages throughout Latin America. Despite the volume of research on Spanish in contact with other languages, many previous studi…
Studies in Shakespeare and the Spanish Golden Age consists of four comparative studies on Shakespeare, Calderón, and Cervantes, loosely connected by the theme of self-command. The studies compare the appropriation of myth, symbols, and themes in those writers. The first chapter …
This work is a systematic, cross-linguistic examination of speech errors in English, Hindi, Japanese, Spanish and Turkish. It first describes a methodology for the generation of parallel corpora of error data, then uses these data to examine three general hypotheses about the re…
In Spain, science, history and law began to be written in Romance in the 13th century. At this time, and corresponding to a new interest in the dissemination of the medieval sciences, a need arose to transmit a way of understanding man and creation that integrated practical wisd…
This thesis is concerned with providing a unified approach to bare nominals crosslinguistically by drawing on the properties of focus structure and word order facts. It essentially seeks to assimilate the seemingly disparate behavior of bare nominals in Palestinian Arabic (PA) a…
This dissertation analyzes the uses of illness in Spanish women's literary and non-literary writings from 1880–1920. Two opposing trends were at work during this period. On the one hand, cultural esthetics privileged sickly, pale, and inactive women. On the other hand, the hygie…
A contrastive study of Kiswahili and Spanish, two different languages both genetically and morphologically, and at the same time identical since they are both human languages. The study develops gradually, touching on themes related to language and communication, general linguis…
A historical sociolinguistics approach is used to analyze the uses of ser and estar in different linguistic contexts in Sephardic Spanish. Publications ranging from the 15th to the 21st centuries cover the period following the arrival of the Jews in Constantinople/Istanbul after…
This study considers the development of the modern construction of identity as it is enunciated in a specific literary genre. The sonnet, a literary form developed as a vernacular poetry yet meant for private enjoyment, synthesizes cultural and personal identification in a way t…
Recent studies of Limited English Proficient (LEP) Latino immigrants in South Carolina have demonstrated that Latinos encounter language barriers when accessing healthcare services and feel that they are treated unfairly based on their ethnicity. The purpose of this research was…