Split scope occurs when the negation and indefinite take scope independently of one another. This has been documented in the West-Germanic languages German, Dutch, and English. I apply Zeijlstra (2011)'s framework to the following languages: Azerbaijani, Czech, Macedonian Albani…
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The enduring search for female salvation in American literature is first expressed through typology, an interpretive framework that pairs type with antitype, historical scriptural promise with future spiritual fulfillment. When Cotton Mather invokes the typos of Esther in Orname…
This dissertation examines languages with underlying glides and provides a cross-linguistic representation of these segments. Glides pose a problem to theories of features and natural classes by variably patterning with vowels or consonants. I maintain that the reason for their …
This research seeks to understand the perceptions of professionalism in education. In particular it focuses on the constructions of the space for professional action. A case study focuses on people, including teachers and non-teachers, who work in a special school for young peop…
The motivation for this study is two-pronged. A number of studies on modality or conditionals have put forward the claim that conditionality, and conditionals, have a special relationship with modality. However, this claim has not been empirically investigated, or established qu…
Although the contribution of the small enterprise to a nation’s economy, job creation and innovation is well known, comparatively little is understood on how small firms behave strategically and how the more common patterns of strategic behaviour relate to different levels of or…
This thesis addresses the gap in the scholarly record pertaining to the explicit relationship between gospel genre and implied audience. This thesis challenges the consensus that the canonical gospels were written to/for individual communities/churches and that these documents (…
With few exceptions, past research on Matthew's use of Scripture has portrayed his citations of and allusions to Scripture as ad hoc and insensitive to context. In part, this is because traditional historical-critical methods tend of themselves to emphasize the disunity in a tex…
This dissertation is about the varieties of Malay in eastern Indonesia which have arisen through language contact as a result of trade and colonial policies over the past 500-1000 years. Seven varieties have been identified which have become the native languages of their communi…
In the period before and during the English Revolution, Protestants of all stripes began to claim that the Old Testament pointed not only to the New Testament, but also to the events of their own moment. English reformers began to construct images of self, nation, and history in…
Pottery is one of the most common artifacts in the archaeological record, and is often studied in terms of style, function, and technology to establish chronologies at the local or regional level, or to define cultural groups. As these traditional approaches to chronology and ty…
This dissertation examines the significance of Exodus typology upon the conclusion of Scripture, namely, John's Apocalypse. After a brief introduction to the project in chapter 1, chapter 2 focuses on intertextuality, defining key terminology including typology. Chapter 3 examin…
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…
Chapter 1 introduces the thesis, states the purpose, and defines the dissertation's specific goals. Attention is then given to a summary of research before a closing section presents the methodology that is used: a historical-exegetical, epochal, and canonical-eschatological app…
Existing scholarship suggests terrorism is an ineffective method of political contestation; groups rarely achieve their political objectives and are often disrupted by the security services. These findings invite us to look again at the dominant rational choice paradigm, which s…
This thesis examines the grammar of Lianhua Gan in both synchronic and diachronic dimensions, covering some important grammatical morphemes and functional categories including demonstratives, the definite article, the perfective aspect, the imperfective aspects (the progressive …
Jonathan Edwards has proven to be one of the most influential figures in eighteenth-century Christianity and beyond. Edwards, situated in a rapidly changing society, labored to maintain his Christian heritage. He emerged as a biblical, exegetical, and philosophical theologian wh…
The goal of this thesis is to develop an understanding of the history of Middle and Late Woodland settlement at Jacob Island, located in Pigeon Lake in the Trent River region, through analysis of ceramic artifacts recovered during the 2016 excavation program. Using both typologi…
While pedestrian-oriented urban places have been identified as beneficial in a number of fields, including public health and climate change, there is a shortage of quantitative studies of such places covering large geographic areas. This study characterizes neighborhoods in US m…