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Word alignment, the process of inferring the implicit links between words across two languages, serves as an integral piece of the puzzle of learning linguistic translation knowledge. It enables us to acquire automatically from data the rules that govern the transformation of wo…
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a description of some aspects of the syntax of Indonesian Teochew, a Southern Min Chinese language spoken in Indonesian. This dissertation examines two dialects of Indonesian Teochew: Jambi Teochew, which is spoken in Jambi City, Su…
This dissertation examines the syntactic positions of nominal arguments in Turkish, looking at Turkish clausal structure based on Aktionsart (aspectual) properties (e.g. Vendler 1967) of (dynamic) predicates from the perspective of Antisymmetry (Kayne 1994). It has been argued t…
Split scope occurs when the negation and indefinite take scope independently of one another. This has been documented in the West-Germanic languages German, Dutch, and English. I apply Zeijlstra (2011)'s framework to the following languages: Azerbaijani, Czech, Macedonian Albani…
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 prosody of the stanzaic poems called madrasê, written in Syriac by Ephrem of Nisibis in the fourth century, has long been studied by scholars. Until now, these studies have focused on meter, but this has left many questions unanswered. The present study examines the intercla…
Richards (2006, 2010) suggests that wh-movement is prosodically driven. Based on the position of the Comp(lementizer) and the marking of prosodic phrase edges, he claims that if Comp is on one side and the language marks the opposite side of prosodic phrases, then the wh-phrase …
This dissertation examines the morphology and syntax of Balanta (Ganja dialect) in light of recent developments in syntactic theory. The picture that emerges is a highly unified one, with clauses and noun phrases having similar structures, and verbal morphology reflecting the hi…
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…
The present research examines the morphological and syntactical features of forms used in the modal systems of the languages of the Northwest semitic corpus (Ugaritic, El-Amarna Canaanite, Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite, Edomite, Ammonite) from 1500–500 BCE. The study focuses of th…
In contrast to fruitful studies of resumptive pronouns (RP) in inflectional languages, few substantial studies have been done to explore the characteristics of RPs in Chinese. The thesis attempts to seek a unified theory for the occurrence of RPs. We classify RPs into three cate…
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…
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore major areas of Pashto syntax. It provides a unified account of agreement and clitics which in constructions such as relative clauses, represent core arguments. Agreement suffixes allow the coreferenced NP to be null in a sentence. O…
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of finiteness as Nominative case and its significance for the theory of syntax. It questions the relevance of Tense and Agreement as a Nominative Case licensing feature within the Minimalist Framework. It discusses the syntactic feature(…
This dissertation investigates the relation between the functional heads TP and AgrP and the use of overt and covert subjects across languages. This relation is first accounted for in Modern Hebrew, where both subject options are attested in different tense-person contexts. In a…
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…
This dissertation investigates the interaction between case and referentiality in syntax and the role of such an interaction on phrase structure. It proposes that the two conditions introduced independently in the literature for argumenthood, i.e., case-assignment for visibility…
This dissertation provides an analysis of verb-initial (V1) constructions in Modern Hebrew (MH). The two main foci of the analysis are the grammatical function of the postverbal NP in V1 and the licensing condition of the constructions. Subjects in MH are generally assumed to ap…