Research on age and second language acquisition (L2A) is vast, but inconclusive. Such research has mainly been motivated by the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH), which postulates that language acquisition becomes extremely difficult after the onset of puberty. Also, there is a l…
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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 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 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,…
Almost every natural language contains support verb constructions that are language-specific. Their common function is to re-verbalize or verbalize nominals. As a result of nominalization, the original verb is deprived from its syntactic features, however it often retains many o…
This dissertation investigates a set of phenomena in Standard Arabic at the syntax-morphology interface, providing an analysis for each within the assumptions of the minimalist program, particularly those related to mechanisms of formal feature licensing. Among the issues discus…
This dissertation is an analysis of the morphosyntax of the Turkish causative construction within the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM). It is an attempt to capture a range of different phenomena in a principled way within this framework. Important aspects of DM for the a…
One of the most striking features of many languages of Africa is their use of core grammatical structures to encode focus structure. The use of nominal and verbal morphology as well as variations in word order as indicators of focus are prevalent in languages across the continen…
This dissertation investigates the morphosyntax of Numeral-Noun Constructions (NNC) in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). It shows that Arabic numerals do not belong to a uniform lexical category. Rather, each class of numerals belongs to a different category: 1-2 are adjectives, 100…
This thesis seeks to provide a systematic study of question formation in Mehri, a Modern South Arabian Language for which many syntactic facts remain largely undescribed. The thesis has three main goals: First, a presentation of a sketch grammar of the Ben Zabinut dialect of Meh…
U̠t-Ma'in is a Kainji, East Benue-Congo language, spoken in northwestern Nigeria (ISO 639-3 code [gel]). This study contributes to our understanding of Benue-Congo languages by offering the first indepth look at nominalization phenomena in any Kainji language. Kainji is an undesr…
Diglossia in Arabic language is manifested through the existence of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), and the existence of regional spoken dialects (Al-toma, 1969; Ferguson, 1959; Holes, 1994). Differences between the MSA Arabic and the Colloquial Arabic are manifested in all langua…