Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Dialect Boundaries and Phonological Change in Upstate New York, Aaron J. Dinkin
The permeability of dialect boundaries: a case study of the region surrounding Erie, Pennsylvania, Keelan Evanini
The social and linguistic predictors of the outcomes of borrowing in the speech community of Montréal, Michael Lee Friesner
Pronouns in Catalan: Information, discourse and strategy, Laia Mayol
The nature of homophony and its effects on diachrony and synchrony, Jean-Francois Mondon
Language Shift and the Speech Community: Sociolinguistic Change in a Garifuna Community in Belize, Maya Ravindranath
Antisymmetry and the Conservation of C-Command: Scrambling and Phrase Structure in Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective, Joel C. Wallenberg
Submissions from 2008
Socioeconomic aspects of linguistic variation in Polish, Lukasz Abramowicz
A sociolinguistic study of the regional French of Normandy, Damien John Hall
Plurality and distributivity, Yoon-kyoung Joh
The postsyntactic derivation and its phonological reflexes, Marjorie Pak
Semantic operators in different dimensions, Tatjana Scheffler
Topicalization and clash avoidance. On the interaction of prosody and syntax in the history of English with a few spotlights on German, Augustin Speyer
Linguistic change and stabilization in the transition from adolescence to adulthood, Suzanne Evans Wagner
Submissions from 2007
Early verb representations, Sudha Arunachalam
Free choice and negative polarity: A compositional analysis of Korean polarity sensitive items, Jinyoung Choi
Stability and change along a dialect boundary: The low vowels of Southeastern New England, Daniel Ezra Johnson
Laryngeal contrast in Seoul Korean, Jonathan D Wright
Submissions from 2006
Phonological variation and change in the dialect of Charleston, South Carolina, Maciej Andrzej Baranowski
The Banarasi Bhojpuri verb system, Susan Blair Das
Usage -based effects in Latin American Spanish syllable -final /s/ lenition, Michelle Annette Minnick Fox
Korean zero pronouns: Analysis and resolution, Na-Rae Han
Semantics and pragmatics of arbitrariness, Sophia Alexandra Malamud
Sociolinguistic variation and linguistic history in Mayan: The case of K’ichee’, Sergio Francisco Romero
Games interlocutors play: New adventures in compositionality and conversational implicature, Ian Ross
Submissions from 2005
Dialect variation in school settings among African -American children of low -socioeconomic status, Anne Harper Charity
Modeling phonological variation in multidialectal Italy, Christopher Cieri
Of “moice” and men: The evolution of a male -led sound change, Jeffrey Christopher Conn
Tone patterns of Kelantan Hokkien and related issues in Southern Min tonology, Alan Lee
Sociolinguistic variation and language change in El Palenque de San Basilio (Colombia), Thomas Barry Morton
Constraints on structural borrowing in a multilingual contact situation, Tara Savannah Sanchez
On the semantics of free relatives with -ever, Victoria Ann Tredinnick
Complex causatives and verbal valence, Alexander Williams
Submissions from 2004
The position of morphological *case in the derivation: A study on the syntax -morphology interface, Thomas McFadden
Domains of measurement: Formal properties of non -split /split quantifier constructions, Kimiko Nakanishi
Submissions from 2003
Syntactic form and discourse function in natural language generation, Cassandre Yvonne Creswell
Discourse semantics of S -modifying adverbials, Katherine Margaret Forbes
The quest for a referent: A crosslinguistic look at reference resolution, Elsi Miia Katariina Kaiser
The syntax -discourse interface: Effects of the main -subordinate distinction on attention structure, Eleni Miltsakaki
Viking pronouns in England: Charting the course of THEY, THEIR, and THEM, Elise Emerson Morse-Gagne
Constraints on the *generation of referring expressions, with special reference to Hindi, Rashmi Prasad
Term selection for information retrieval applications, J. Michael Schultz
The relationship between *form and *function in ditransitive constructions, Kieran Margaret Snyder
Submissions from 2002
Topics in the reconstruction and development of Indo -European accent, Ronald I Kim
The chronology of the Pali Canon: The case of the aorists, Paul Russell Kingsbury
A quantitative study of accent change and variation in Tokyo Japanese: Focusing on adjectives and nouns, Megumi Kobayashi
From the centre to the edge: The social contours and linguistic outcomes of contact with English in an Irish core and peripheral community, Mary O'Malley-Madec
Submissions from 2001
Conspiracy in historical phonology, Sean Jacob Crist
Is your money where your mouth is? Hiring managers' attitudes toward African -American Vernacular English, Anita Louise Henderson
Submissions from 2000
The neural encoding of lexical perception in the human cortex: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study, Nadia Madelaine Biassou
The effect of geographic mobility on the retention of a local dialect, David Franklin Bowie
Beyond identity: Topics in pronominal and reciprocal anaphora, Alexis Dimitriadis
Historical phonology of Old Indo -Aryan consonants, Masato Kobayashi
Korean Americans as speakers of English: The acquisition of general and regional features, Hikyoung Lee
Variable liaison in Parisian French, Christine Moisset
Free relatives and related matters, Roumyana Ivanova Pancheva Izvorski
Minimal indirect reference: A theory of the syntax -phonology interface, Amanda Hallie Seidl
Submissions from 1999
Covert modality in non-finite contexts, Rajesh Bhatt
Submissions from 1998
Incorporating punctuation into the sentence grammar: A lexicalized tree adjoining grammar perspective, Christine D Doran
The structure and interpretation of imperatives: Mood and force in universal grammar, Chung-hye Han
The interpretation and realization of focus: An experimental investigation of focus in English and Hungarian, Beth Ann Hockey
Pronunciation modeling in speech synthesis, Corey Andrew Miller
Aspects of Pit River phonology, Bruce Edwin Nevin
The semantics and acquisition of time in language, Laura M Wagner
Submissions from 1997
Variation and change in the nativization of foreign (a) in English, Charles Soren Boberg
Voice and the interfaces of syntax, David Embick
The English and Spanish of young adult Chicanos, Carmen Richardson Fought
Prosodic domains and ambisyllabicity in optimality theory, Soonhyun Hong
Burglars, babysitters, and persons: A sociolinguistic study of generic pronoun usage in Philadelphia and Minneapolis, Lou Ann Matossian
Be I no gat: Constraints on null subjects in Bislama, Miriam Meyerhoff
Submissions from 1996
Grammatical and discourse properties of null arguments in English, Sharon Ann Cote
Grammatical categories of the verb in African-American Vernacular English, Elizabeth Dayton
Quantification and predication in Mandarin Chinese: A case study of dou, Shi-Zhe Huang
The prosodic structure of Latvian, A. Krisjanis Karins
Language contact and language change in the Faetar speech community, Naomi Gail Nagy
Submissions from 1995
External constraints on sound change: The raising of/o/ in Seoul Korean, Seo-young Chae
Switch-reference and the Structure of Lakhota Narrative Discourse, Richard Watson Lungstrum
Variable zero-marking of (o) in Tokyo Japanese, Kenjiro Matsuda
Null vs. overt subjects in Turkish discourse: A centering analysis, Umit Deniz Turan
The categorical and variable phonology of Russian, Ekaterina L Zubritskaya
Submissions from 1994
Pronomial clitics in Quebec colloquial French: A morphological analysis, Julie Auger
Variation and phonological theory, William Thomas Reynolds
Acquisition of variable rules: (-t,d) deletion and (ing) production in preschool children, Julia Lee Roberts
Submissions from 1993
Phrase structure and the syntax of clitics in the history of Spanish, Josep M Fontana
Scrambling as Case-Driven Obligatory Movement, Young-Suk Lee
Variation in Q'eqchi' (Q'eqchi' Mayan): Four compound deictic forms and their role in structuring discourse, Linda J Maisel
Submissions from 1992
Pronominal and null subject variation in Spanish: Constraints, dialects, and functional compensation, Richard Cameron
Linguistic variation in urban Jamaican creole: A sociolinguistic study of Kingston, Jamaica, Peter Lumpkin Patrick
Submissions from 1991
The historical development of the 'it'-cleft, Catherine N Ball
Sociolinguistic variation in Cairene Arabic: Palatalization and the 'qaf' in the speech of men and women, Niloofar Haeri
Layers of predication: The non-lexical syntax of clauses, Caroline Heycock
Phrase structures in competition: Variation and change in Old English word order, Susan Pintzuk
Phonetic simplification processes in the English of the Barrio: A cross-generational sociolinguistic study of the Chicanos of Los Angeles, Otto Santa Ana A.
English vowels: Their surface phonology and phonetic implementation in vernacular dialects, Thomas Clark Veatch
Syntactic properties of sentential negation. A comparative study of Romance languages, Raffaella Zanuttini
Submissions from 1990
Mechanisms of merger: The implementation and distribution of the low back merger in eastern Pennsylvania, Ruth Herold
Clitics and configurationality in ancient Greek, Ann Taylor
On preposing and word order rigidity, Asha Kiran Tickoo