This thesis is a detailed investigation of the phonology and phonetics of the intonation of Persian carried out in the framework of the AM theory of intonational phonology. Based on 2112 utterances read by a total of 8 native speakers, the work, on the one hand, presents a phono…
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This dissertation is a comparative theological study of an Islamic and a Christian text, which, though seemingly unrelated, share a commonality that allows one text to illuminate the other. One is Nah[dotbelow]w al-qulub by Sufi master `Abd al-Karim al-Qushayri (d. 1072), and th…
This thesis documents the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and its contribution to the learning experience of students studying Arabic as a foreign language. The goal of this project is to build an Intelligent Computer Assist…
Since 1921 England’s governments have commissioned enquiries into English and literacy teaching, leading towards published recommendations and requirements for English grammar teaching. Governments’ officially sanctioned publications represent their policy aspirations for Englis…
This is a reference grammar of Enxet Sur, an indigenous language of the Paraguayan Gran Chaco, and one of six recognized languages in the Enlhet-Enenlhet (EE, or Mascoyan) language family. This is the first comprehensive grammatical description of a language in the Enlhet-Enenlh…
This dissertation is a documentation of Sula [ISO-639-3 szn, mqc; Glottocode sula1245, mang1408]. Sula is a critically to severely endangered language of North Maluku, Indonesia. This dissertation includes: demographic and ethnographic information about the community, the first …
This dissertation investigates changes in contemporary written English in Singapore from 1993 to 2016. It is based on a Singapore English Newspaper (SEN) corpus compiled from local news articles at three temporal points and focuses mainly on grammar. One of the first diachronic …
This thesis is a grammatical description of Dela (ISO 639-3:row), an Austronesian language of western Rote, eastern Indonesia, spoken by approximately 11,000 native speakers. The grammar describes and discusses issues from the phonology of the language to its discourse structure.
This project seeks to increase the confidence of small group leaders at Staples Mill Road Baptist Church in Glen Allen, VA in Bible teaching. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry context of SMRBC and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides exegesis of five passages …
Through the intersection of discourse analysis and plot analysis a proposed microplot for Genesis is developed from the formal structure of the narrative. The macrostructure of Genesis is determined to consist of eleven sections marked by transitional toledot headings. These hea…
The purpose of this study is to analyze William Hajjar’s single-family houses in State College, Pennsylvania, home of the Pennsylvania State University’s main campus, by using shape grammar as a computational design methodology. Shape grammar is used to verify and describe the i…
This dissertation investigates the demonstratives in Old Egyptian. It shows that the proper description of the Old Kingdom deictic system delivers key insights into the emergence of the new proclitic forms "pȝ", "tȜ", "nȜ", which later grammaticalize to definite articles.
Neuromorphic computing is a computing field that takes inspiration from the biological and physical characteristics of the neocortex system to motivate a new paradigm of highly parallel and distributed computing to take on the demands of the ever-increasing scale and computation…
The primary goal of this dissertation is to contribute to a predictive model of Spanish heritage grammars by applying recent advancements in machine learning to ferret out factors and covariates that give rise to the Spanish subjunctive. Given that “[p]redictive models would ent…
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…
The dissertation Poetry and Grammar in the Works of Eleazar be-rabbi Qillir—A Grammatical Analysis of Selected Liturgical Poems, written under the direction of Professor Lawrence Schiffman, is concerned with investigating a corpus of several thousand lines of poetry, selected fr…
In my dissertation I analyze the contrast between the pre and postverbal subject positions in Spanish declarative, interrogative and relative sentences under minimalist assumptions (Chomsky, 1995). There are three basic proposals that I defend in this dissertation: First, that S…
This is a sketch grammar of the Tutelo-Saponi language, a preliminary examination of the history, phonology, morphology, and syntax of the Southeastern Siouan language and its speakers. While previous works have presented the corpus’ data in the North American Phonetic Alphabet,…
To say that the first Gospel is about Jesus is to state what any reader knows from the most cursory glance at Matthew's narrative. Yet the scholarly discourse about Jesus' identity in Matthew reveals a fundamental confusion about how to articulate the identity of Jesus vis-à-vis…