A long history of studies exists of how Hebrew and Aramaic influenced NT Greek. Many deal specifically with the Semitic background to the Fourth Gospel. These are flawed, however, by (1) a lack of precision in selection of Greek and Semitic sources used for comparative purposes,…
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This thesis investigates the structure of DPs in Jordanian Arabic (JA) focusing on Nominal Ellipsis (NE). Cross-linguistically, research on NE has produced a number of perspectives on the mechanisms involved in the licensing of NE. I argue that most of the mainstream approaches …
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…
This dissertation investigates two elliptical phenomena, sluicing and verb phrase ellipsis (VPE), in Indonesian. This dissertation is equally concerned with description and formal analysis, and provides the first in-depth description and generative analysis of both Indonesian sl…
This thesis is a study of the inflection appearing on adjectives in Japanese. The goal of this work is to investigate the structure of adjectival constructions in Japanese and its relation to adjectival inflection. Chapter 1 reviews the general patterns of inflection appearing o…
This dissertation aims to deepen our understanding of free word order phenomena or "scrambling." It offers a unified approach to some fundamental limitations on scrambling both in clauses and in noun phrases of Korean. These would have been attributed to a headedness parameter i…
This dissertation examines the elliptical structures of (a) sluicing (John called someone, but I don't know who!), (b) fragment answers (A: Who did John call?, B: Mary!), (c) gapping (John is eating ice-cream, and Mary apple pie!), and (d) Right Node Raising (John cooked and Mar…
This dissertation presents an account of unbounded dependency (UD) constructions in two western Malayo-Polynesian languages (from now on Western Austronesian, or WAn), Tagalog and Palauan. The UDs in WAn have been described as typologically unusual: they are represented by two d…
The tautological use of the infinitive absolute in Biblical Hebrew has drawn attention as a linguistic phenomenon unique to Biblical Hebrew. However, it has not received a coherent treatment in ancient and modern translations, nor has its function been clearly defined by modern …
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,…
This dissertation is concerned with contact phenomena between two languages of distinct branches of Niger-Congo in Togo, Kabiye and Ewe. My investigation seeks to determine the social and linguistic factors (e.g. prestige, pressure, wider communication) that constrain language c…
This dissertation is a theoretical investigation of the thesis of Minimalist Interfaces, namely, that syntax-external linguistic interfaces that interact with the core syntactic computation and language-independent sound and concept systems play a more critical role in manipulat…
My dissertation has two goals: the first is to prove that historical syntax has a value in subgrouping; the second is to reconstruct parts of the syntax of the Aramaic dialect groups. The work focuses on three topics: the development of adverbial subordination, nominal modifiers…
This dissertation investigates the factors involved in producing agreement, using evidence from conjoined subjects in English and Lebanese Arabic. Specifically, the goal was to test psycholinguistic and syntactic theories of agreement by examining the relative contributions of l…
This study investigates the binding effects of pronominals and controlled elements in Colloquial Modern Persian within the Government and Binding framework. Chapter Two accounts for the distribution of seven third person singular pronouns. The binding domain and structural relat…
This dissertation uses the processing of anaphoric relations to probe how linguistic information is encoded in and retrieved from memory during real-time sentence comprehension. More specifically, the dissertation attempts to resolve a tension between the demands of a linguistic…
The focus of this thesis is the description and analysis of clausal complementation in Sundanese, an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia. The thesis examined a range of clausal complement types in Sundanese, which consists of (i) yén/(wi)réhna 'that' complements, (ii) pike…
In this paper, I propose that focused elements in Hindi must scramble to the specifier of a Focus Phrase projected immediately above the vP, which is the default position for focus (Kidwai 1999). A focus phrase in the immediately preverbal position has also been proposed by Jaya…
This dissertation investigates the distribution of Iron Range English (IRE) reflexives, using judgments collected in a Magnitude Estimation task (Bard et al 1996), and presents a phase-based analysis for their distribution. IRE reflexives (e.g., himself) can corefer with nominal…