Classical Semitic languages, with the exception of Akkadian, all display VSO (Verb-Subject-Object) either as the basic main constituent word order or as one of the most attested main constituent word order (the other being SVO). Other word order features, such as that of Modifie…
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This dissertation is the first account of a previously undocumented dialect of Neo-Mandaic, a Semitic language belonging to the Eastern subgroup of Aramaic. It is the most detailed description of any dialect of Neo-Mandaic. The data contained within this dissertation was collect…
I have adopted complementary approaches to inferring human demographic history utilizing human and non-human genetic data as well as cultural data. These complementary approaches form an interdisciplinary perspective that allows one to make inferences of human history at varying…
Uncertainty refers to the language aspects that express hypotheses and speculations where propositions are held as (un)certain, (im)probable, or (im)possible. Automatic uncertainty analysis is crucial for several Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications that need to distin…
The Arabic plural system is of great linguistic interest due to its diversity, complexity, and resistance to classification. Arabic is a non-concatenative language that applies a masculine and feminine suffix plural, a dual, and a "broken plural" to mark number. The broken plura…