Mixed category constructions involve lexical items that seem to be central members of more that one part of speech and so pose a problem for the standard view of syntactic categories as primitive, universal, and perhaps innate. For example, the verbal gerund phrase in the senten…
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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…
This dissertation shows that the generalizations that speakers project from the lexical exceptions of their language are biased to be natural and output-oriented, and it offers a model of the grammar that derives these biases by encoding lexical exceptions in terms of lexically-…
This dissertation is about physio-psychological concept expressions in Anlo Ewe, a Niger Congo language of the (new) Kwa branch. The term "physio-psychological" is a cover term for expressions of physiological, as well as psychological experiential phenomena. Physiological conce…
This thesis investigates the properties of three different aspects of Turkish grammar. First, starting with the basic assumption that derivational morphology is confined to the lexicon, it is claimed that thematic structure is distinct from the argument structure and that deriva…
This dissertation is focused on socio-historical approaches to language change and lexical loss, particularly those connected with standardization, language policy and ideology. The study sheds light on the sociolinguistic effects that language standardization mechanisms have pl…
This dissertation concerns the acquisition of the interaction between lexicosemantic properties of verbs and syntax, focusing on symmetrical and asymmetrical verbs in different syntactic structures. Based on linguistic evidence, it is shown that two conceptual categories, Mutual…
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…