Ph.D. Recipients 1966 - 2012
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Mohammad Abdel-Latif (1989) |
The sentential structure of Arabic |
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Christina Abdul-Ghani (Lehman) (1978) |
Accent in Discourse: An Analysis of Function |
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Hasan Abdul-Ghani (1979) |
Perceived Attitudes and Second Language Learning |
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Asier Alcazar (2007) |
Sentences in the Lower Phase and Interface Phenomena |
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Gontzal Aldai (2002) |
The grammaticalization of present and past in Basque |
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Roann Altman (1984) |
Assessing Modal Proficiency in English as a Second Language |
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Lori Altmann (1998) |
Effects of Working Memory and Semantic Impairment Speech in Alzheimer's Disease |
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Estibaliz Amorrortu (2000) |
Linguistic Attitudes in the Basque Country: the Social Acceptance of a New Variety |
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Janet K. Anderson (2012) |
Reduplication and distributivity in Kannada |
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Stephen Craig Anderson (1983) |
Tone & Morpheme Rules in Bamileke-Ngyemboon |
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Nancy Antrim (1996) |
On the Status of Possessives |
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Hiroshi Aoyagi (1998) |
On the Nature of Particles in Japanese and Its Theoretical Implications |
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Valentina Apresjan (1995) |
Emotions: Linguistics Representation and Cultural Conceptualization |
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Alfredo Arnaiz (1996) |
N-words and Wh- In-situ: Nature and Interactions |
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Dwight Atkinson (1993) |
A Historical Discourse Analysis of Scientific Research Writing from 1675 to 1975: The Case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London |
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Marc Pierre Authier (1988) |
The Syntax of Unselective Binding |
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Robert Edward Barela (1971) |
A Descriptive Sytax of King Alfred's Soliloquies |
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Robert Baumgardner Jr. (1982) |
Sociolinguistic Aspects of Persian Pronouns of Address: A Macro/Micro Analysis |
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Martha Sherwood Bean (1991)* |
Getting heard: Perseveration in the Speech of a Young Latino Learner |
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Omar Beas (2007) |
Agreement on the left edge: The syntax of left dislocation in Spanish |
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Robert Belvin (1996) |
Inside Events: The Non-possesive Meanings of Possession Predicates and the Semantics Conceptualization of Events |
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Elabbas Benmamoun (1992) |
Inflectional and Functional Morphology: Problems of Projection, Representation and Derivation |
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Tina Lynne Bennett (1978) |
A Developmental Pragmatic & Psycholinguistic Investigation of Repetition in the Speech of Genre |
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Uffe Bergeton (2004) |
The independence of binding and intensification |
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Nicolas Guy Besnier (1986) |
Spoken & Written Registers in a Restricted-Literacy Setting |
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Douglas Edward Biber (1984) |
A Model of Textual Relations Within the Written and Spoken Modes |
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Edmond Biloa (1992) |
The Syntax of Operator Constructions in Tuki |
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Sylvia Martina Bock (1984) |
Fronting in Caribbean Creoles |
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Heather Joan Bowe (1987) |
Categories, Constituents and Constituent Order in Pitjantjatjara |
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Mary Patricia Boyle (1991) |
Variation in Levels of Language: A Study of Politeness in Japanese |
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Maquela Brizuela (1999) |
Definiteness Types in Spanish: A study of Natural Discourse |
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Paul Bruthiaux (1993) |
Linguistic Simplicity and the Language of Classified Ads |
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Kevin George Burne (1972) |
A Syntactic Analysis of the Writing of Some 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade Caucasian Children in the LA City Schools |
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Monica Cabrera (2005) |
The Acquisition of Causative Structures in English and Spanish as Second Languages |
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Jose Camacho (1997) |
The Syntax of NP Coordination |
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Minimal contrast and the phonetics-phonology interaction |
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Alvaro Cerrón-Palomino (2010) |
Adding and Subtracting Alternation: Resumption and Prepositional Phrase Chopping in Spanish Relative Clauses |
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Lindsey Chen (2008) |
On Mass, Collectives and Pseudopartitives |
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Sylvia Shengyun Chen (1997) |
Intra-lexical Noun-verb Dissociations: Evidence from Chinese Aphasia |
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Chi-hang Candice Cheung (2008) |
The syntax of wh-in-situ in Chinese |
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Dong-in Cho (1994) |
A Comparative Study of Focus Constructions |
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Young Sik Choi (2002) |
Asymmetry of Scope Taking in Wh-questions |
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Lina Choueiri (2002) |
Revisiting Relatives: Issues in the Syntax of Resumptive Relative Constructions |
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Daeho Chung (1996) |
On the Representation and Licensing of Q and Q-Dependents |
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Marvin Richard Coates (1977) |
An Investigation of the Effect of Computer Assisted Instruction on Foreign Speakers' Learning of English Complement Structures |
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Akiko Kumahira Comrie (1987) |
On So-Called Quantifier Floating in Japanese |
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Jeffrey Taylor Connor-Linton (1989) |
Crosstalk: A multi-feature analysis of Soviet-American Spacebridges |
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Haruko Minegishi Cook (1988) |
Sentential Particles in Japanese Conversation: A Study of Indexicality |
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Philip Harold Cook (1973) |
Theme, Rheme, and Focus as Grammatical Universals |
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Suzanne Curtin (2002) |
Representational Richness in Phonological Development |
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Ann Daubney-Davis (1994)* |
Structure, Convention, and Persona: The Writing of Urban Hispanic and Black Middle School Students |
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Ferdinand de Haan (1994) |
The Interaction of Modality and Negation: A Typological Study |
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Nigel Gordon Duffield (1991) |
Particles and projections |
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Anne Dunlea (1982) |
The Role of Visual Information in the Emergence of Meaning: A Comparison of Blind & Sighted Children |
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Alessandro Duranti (1981) |
The Fono: A Samoan Speech Event |
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William Gregory Eggington (1985) |
Towards a Language Plan for the Southern California Area: The Hacienda-La Puente Survey |
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Gorka Elordieta (1997) |
Morphosyntactic Feature Chains and Phonological Domains |
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Guanjun Bella Feng (2006) |
Prosodic morphemes vs. fixed segment morphemes: their segments, position and shape |
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Dana Rider Ferris (1991) |
Syntactic and lexical characteristics of ESL student writing: A multidimensional study |
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Fredric Field (1998) |
Borrowing and Borrowability |
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Kathleen Frances Flynn (1985) |
The Acquisition of Form and Function in L2: An Analysis of the Use of the Perfect in the Written Discourse of Adult Second Language Learners |
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Terrence Michael Flynn (1973)* |
Lanuage in Context: Toward the Pschologically Real Grammar |
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Paul Robert Frommer (1981) |
Post-Verbal Phenomena in Colloquial Persian Syntax |
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Teruhiko Fukaya (2007) |
Slucing and Stripping in Japanese and Some Implications |
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Shadi Ganjavi (2007) |
Direct Objects in Persian |
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Gary Martin Gilligan (1987) |
A Cross-Linguistic Approach to the Pro-Drop Parameter |
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Heather Goad (1994) |
On the Configuration of Height Features |
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Laura Gonnerman (1999) |
An Alternative Account of Derivational Morphology: Exploring the Semantics-Phonology Interface |
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Carolina Gonzalez (2002) |
The Effect of Prosodic Structure in Consonantal Processes |
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Ljiljana Progovac Gotstajn (1988) |
A Binding Approach to Polarity Sensitivity |
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William Peter Grabe (1984) |
Towards Defining Expository Prose Within a Theory of Text Construction |
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Anthony Greblick (2000) |
The Modal Preterite Phenomenon (MPP) in Colloquial American English: A Diachronic and Synchronic Analysis |
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Hefedh Halila (1992) |
Subject Specificity Effects in Tunisian Arabic |
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Chistopher John Hall (1987) |
Language Structure and Explanation: A Case From Morphology |
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Helena Halmari (1994) |
A Government Approach to Finnish-English Intrasentential Code-Switching |
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Mohmed Hared (1992) |
Modernization and Standardization in Sumali Press Writing |
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J.-R. Hayashishita (2004) |
Syntactic and Non-Syntactic Scope |
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John Scott Hedgcock (1991) |
Foreign Language Retention and Attrition: A Study of Maintenance Patterns Among Adult Learners of Spanish |
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Lorie Ann Heggie (1988) |
The Syntax of Copular Structure |
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Elena Herburger (1997) |
In the Event of Focus |
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Robert Martin Hertz (1974) |
The Grammar of English Causative Transitivity |
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Roland Hinterholzl (1999) |
Restructuring Infinitives and the Theory of Complementation |
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Michio Mark Hojo (1973) |
Intonation of Single-Word Utterances in Japanese: An Acoustic Phonetic Study |
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Heather Kristine Holmback (1982) |
The Interpretation of Definite and Indefinite Descriptions |
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Edward Holsinger (2011) |
Cutting the Mustard: An Experimental Investigation of Idiomatic Expressions in the Lexicon |
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Kauro Horie (1993) |
A Cross-Linguistic Study of Perception and Cognition Verb Compliments: A Cognitive Perspective |
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John Yien-Yao Hou (1979) |
Grammatical Relations in Chinese |
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Noel Ross Houck (1984) |
The Pragmatics of Tag Questions: A Model for Epistemic Speaker-Hearer Acts |
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Jose Ignacio Hualde (1988) |
A Lexical Phonology of Basque |
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Yu-Chi Huang (2012) |
Flexibility in Language Production |
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Wesley Hudson (1994) |
Pragmatic Constraints on Binding into Noun Phrases |
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Matthew Busby Hunt (1996) |
The Sociolinguistics of Tagging and Chicano Gang Graffiti |
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Miao-Ling Hsieh (2001) |
Form and Meaning: Negation and Question in Chinese |
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Heeju Hwang (2012) |
Investigating Coordination of Lexical and Structural Information Cross-linguistically |
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Cristian Iscrulescu (2006) |
The Phonological Dimension of Grammatical Markedness |
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Harriet Lynne Jisa (1985) |
Sentence Connectors in the Speech of French Preschoolers |
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Marc Joanisse (2000) |
Connectionist Phonology |
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Lawrence Alfred Johnson (1974) |
A Sociolinguistic Study of Selected Vowel Changes in Los Angeles English |
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Taro Kageyama (1977) |
Lexical Structures: A Comparative Study of Japanese and English |
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Francis Xavier Karam (1969) |
An Investigation of Some Critical Factors in Language Synthesis and the Implications of These Factors for Linguists as Language Engineers |
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Fusa Katada (1990) |
The representation of anaphoric relations in logical form |
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Reine Cardaillac Kelly (1966) |
A Descriptive Analysis of the Gascon Dialect Spoken at Donzec (Tarn-et-Garonne), France |
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Fatma Nihan Ketrez (2005) |
Children's Scope of Indefinite Objects |
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Alan Hyun-Oak Kim (1985) |
The Grammar of Focus in Korean Syntax and Its Typological Implications |
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Hyuna Byun Kim (2011) |
Reference Time in the Dynamics of Temporal Interpretation in Korean |
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Jeongdal Kim (1993) |
The Serial Verb Construction in Korean |
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Jong-mi Kim (1986) |
Phonology and Syntax of Korean Morphology |
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Kyungan Kim (1995) |
Causativity in Korean: Syntactic Causative, Control and Purpose |
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Kong-On Kim (1974) |
Temporal Structure of Spoken Korean: An Acoustic Phonetic Study |
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Yong-Jin Kim (1990) |
Register variation in Korean: a corpus-based study |
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Jelena Krivokapic (2007) |
The Planning, Production, and Perception of Prosodic Structure |
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Barbara Kroll (1982) |
Levels of Error in ESL Composition |
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Chin-Man Kuo (2003) |
The fine structure of negative polarity items in Chinese |
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Laila Lalami (1997) |
Frequency in Sentence Comprehension |
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Liliana Landolfi (1988) |
Explanation as a Joint Activity: Co-Constructing Knowledge in Second-Language Clasrroms |
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Dami Lee (1992) |
Universal Grammar, Learnability, and the Acquisition of L2 English Reflexive Binding by L1 Korean Speakers |
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Mary Elizabeth Lee (1969) |
Justus Goerg Schottel and Linguistic Theory |
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Miae Lee (2004) |
Syntactically-Triggered VP Information Focus |
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Mina Lee (2004) |
Overt Focus Movement and Minimal Information Marking |
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Sechang Lee (1997) |
Correspondence and Faithfulness Constraints in Optimality Theory: A Study of Korean Consonantal Phonology |
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Won-pyo Lee (1989) |
Referential Choice in Korean Discourse: Cognitive and Social Perspective |
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Tsz-Cheung Tommi Leung (2007) |
Syntactic Derivation and the Theory of Matching Contextual Features |
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Hui-ju Grace Li (2002) |
Ellipsis Constructions in Chinese |
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Yen-Hu Audreyi Li (1985) |
Abstract Case in Chinese |
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Roger Wei-Wen Liao (2011) |
Symmetry of Syntactic Relations |
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Dong-Sik Lim (2010) |
Syntax and Semantics of Korean Evidentiality |
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Christopher Long (2003) |
The Effect of Non-native Speaker Status on the use of Linguistic Accommodation by Native Speakers of Date Japanese: Implications for Communication Accommodation Theory |
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Jolanta Maceviciute (2000) |
The Beginnings of Language Loss: A Discourse Study of American Lithuanian |
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Marcus Maia (1994) |
The Comprehension of Object Anaphora in Brazilian Portuguese |
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Ndinzi Nyembo Masagara (1991) |
Oath-taking in Kirundi: The Impact of Religion on Language Change |
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Yuki Matsuda (1997) |
Representation of Focus and Presupposition in Japanese |
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Keiji Matsumoto (1985) |
A Study of Tense and Aspect in Japanese |
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Stephen James Matthews (1990) |
A cognitive approach to the typology of verbal aspect |
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Roberto Mayoral Hernandez (2008) |
On the Unaccusative Hypothesis and the Locative Alternation in Spanish |
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Joyce Patricia McDowell (1987) |
Assertion and Modality |
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Karine Megerdoomian (2002) |
Beyond Words and Phrases: A Unified Theory of Predicate Composition |
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Barbara Gillian Michell (1976) |
A Pragmatic Analysis of Sentence Adverbs: A Study with Particular Reference to Obviously |
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Marcello Modesto (2000) |
On the Identification of Null Arguments |
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Simona Montanari (2006) |
Language Differentiation in Early Trilingual Development: Evidence from a Case |
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Emi Mukai (2012) |
Binding and Scope Dependencies with 'Floating Quantifiers' in Japanese |
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Franz Muller-Gotama (1991) |
A Typology of the Syntax-Semantics Interface |
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Ngessimo Mathe Mutaka (1990) |
The lexical tonology of kinande |
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Emily Nava (2010) |
Connecting Phrasal and Rhythmic Events: Evidence from second Language Speech |
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Joyce Neu (1985) |
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Makoto Nishikawa (1987) |
Japanese Lexical Phonology and Morphology |
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Eunjeong Oh (2006) |
Second Language Acquisition of English Double Object Constructions by Korean Speakers |
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George Joseph O'Neill (1971) |
NNE grammatical items in the speech of Negro elementary school children as correlates of age, grade, and social status |
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Hiroyuki Oshita (1997) |
The Unaccusative Trap: Acquisition of Instransitive Verbs in L2 English |
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Hong-Keun Park (2007) |
Against Optionality in Derivation and Interpretation: Evidence from Scrambling |
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Soyoung Park (2008) |
Functional Categories: The syntax of DP and DegP |
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Ghislaine Genevieve Pattney (1991) |
The Language of Problem Solving in a Computer Lab |
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Charles Paus (1997) |
A Comparison of the Sociolinguistic Conditioning of Phonetic Reduction in Moscow Russian and Northwestern Mexican Spanish |
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Donald Leslie Pederson (1977) |
Grammatical Structure sof Guarani |
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Peter Petrucci (1993) |
Slavic Features in the History of Romania |
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Deborah Pool (1989) |
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George William Raney (1972) |
The accidence and syntax in John Wallis' 1653 Grammatica linguae Anglicanae : a translation and a commentary on its alleged relationship to the 1660 Port-royal Grammaire générale et raisonnée |
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Charles Randriamasimanana (1981) |
A Study of the Causative Constructions of Malagasy |
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Vaidehi Ramanathan-Abbott (1994) |
Wellformedness in Alzheimer Narratives: An Interactional and Schematic Understanding |
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Charlotte Reinholtz (1999) |
Verb Second, Mood and Operator Licensing |
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Jack Forrest Roberson (1982) |
Bangkok Thai Towes |
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Ian Gareth Roberts (1985) |
The Representation of Dethematized and Implicit Subjects |
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Magdalena Romera-Ciria (2001) |
Discourse Functional Units: A Re-Examination of Discourse Markers With Particular Reference to Spanish |
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Stephen Bradford Ross (1973) |
A Syntactic Analysis of the Written Language of Selected Black Elementary School Children with Reference to Sociological Variables |
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Isabelle Roy (2006) |
Non-Verbal Predications: A Syntactic Analysis of Predicational Copular Sentences |
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Dina Rudolph (1993) |
Getting Past Politeness: The Role of Linguistic Markers of Evidentiality and Informational Domains in Japanese |
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Michael Rushforth (2012) |
Asymetrical Discourse in a Computer-Mediated Environment |
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Kevin Russell (1993) |
A Constraint-based Approach to Phonology and Morphology |
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Ana Sanchez Munoz (2007) |
Register and Style Variation in Speakers of Spanish as a Heritage and as a Second Language |
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Liliana Sánchez (1996) |
Syntactic Structures in Nominals: A Comparative Analysis of Spanish and Southern Quechua |
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Robin Cameron Scarcella (1984) |
Cohesion in the Writing Development of Native and non-Native English Speakers |
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Deborah Susan Schlindwein (1988) |
The Phonological Geometry of Morpheme Concatenation |
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Muriel Ripley Schulz (1973) |
A Case Grammar of the Parker Manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle from 734 to 891 |
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Bonnie Dale Schwartz (1987) |
The Modular Basis of Second Language Acquisition |
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Michael Trevor Shanklin (1990) |
The grammar of negation in Middle English |
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Peter Ambler Shaw (1983) |
The Language of Engineering Professors: A Discourse and Registral Analysis of a Speech Event |
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Michael Shepherd (2010) |
A Discourse Analysis of Teacher-Student Classroom Interactions |
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Dingxu Shi (1992) |
The Nature of Topic Comment Constructions and Topic Chains |
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Shu-ing Shyu (1995) |
The Syntax of Focus and Topic in Mandarin Chinese |
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George John Simeon (1969) |
The Phonetics and Morphology of Hokkaido Ainu |
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Jeff Small (1994) |
On-line Sentence Comprehension in Alzheimer's Disease |
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Aaron Sonnenschein (2003) |
A Descriptive Grammar of Zoogocho Zapotec on a Typological Basis |
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Lynn Stallings (1998) |
Evaluating Heaviness: Relative Weight in the Spoken Production of Heavy-NP Shift |
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Suchitra Sudanandan (1999) |
Malayalan Phonology: An Optimality Theoretic Approach |
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Jinhee Suh (1990) |
Scope phenomena and aspects of Korean syntax |
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Richard Walter Suter (1976) |
An Experimental Investigation of Selected Predictor Variables and Their Relationship to Pronunciation Accuracy in Non-Native English Speech |
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Maurice Tadadjeu (1978) |
A Model for Functional Trilingual Education Planning in Africa |
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Ikuhiro Tamori (1979) |
A Study of Japanese Adverbs |
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Erin Tavano (2010) |
The balance of scalar implicature |
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Carolyn E. Taylor (1995) |
Child as Apprentice-Narrator: Socializing Voice, Face, Identity, and Self-Esteem Amid the Narrative Politics of Family Dinner |
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Laura Tejada (2012) |
Tone Gestures and Constraint Interaction in Sierra Juárez Zapotec |
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Michal Temkin Martínez (2010) |
Sources of non-conformity in phonology: variation and exceptionality in Modern Hebrew spirantization |
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Linda Louise Thornburg (1984) |
Syntactic Reanalysis in Early English |
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Maner Lawton Thorpe (1983) |
Ryūkyūan Language History |
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Ellen Touchstone (1996) |
Language Services Planning in the Banking Industry: An Example of Unplanned Language Policy |
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Pachongkarn Towtong (1985) |
Syntactic Areal Classification of Southeast Asian Languages |
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Feng-Fu Tsao (1977) |
A Functional Study of Topic in Chinese: The First Step Toward Discourse Analysis |
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John Kwok-Ping Tse (1980) |
Language Planning and English as a Foreign Language in Middle School Education in the Republic of China |
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Ayumi Ueyama (1998) |
Two Types of Dependency |
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Florence Van der Houwen (2005) |
Negotiating Disputes and Achieving Judgments on 'Judge Judy' |
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Erika Varis (2012) |
The Spanish Feminine el at the Syntax-Phonology Interface |
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Aaron Walker (2012) |
Existential Constructions: A Syntactic Predication Approach |
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Masakazu Watabe (1978) |
An Examination of Topic in Japanese |
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Shin Watanabe (1995) |
Aspects of Questions in Japanese and Their Theoretical Implications |
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Donald Weasenforth (1995) |
Rhetorical Abstraction as a Facet of Expected Response: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis |
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Raymond Stanley Weitzman (1970) |
Japanese Accent: An Analysis Based on Acoustic-Phonetic Data |
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William Howard White (1988) |
Vocabulary Acquisition from Reading and the ESL Learner |
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Fuyun Wu (2009) |
Factors Affecting Relative Clause Processing in Mandarin: Corpus and Behavioral Evidence |
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Xiu-Zhi Wu (2000) |
Grammatication and the Development of Functional Categories in Chinese |
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Bin Yin (2012) |
Investigating Chinese Speakers' Acquisition of Telicity in English |
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Virginia Choy-Yin Yip (1989) |
Aspects of Chinese/English Interlanguage: Syntax, Semantics, and Learnability |
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Noriko Yoshimura (1992) |
Scrambling and Anaphora in Japanese |
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Madeleine Noel Youmans (1995)* |
Communicative Rights and Responsibilities in an East Los Angeles Barrio: An Analysis of Epistemic Modal Use |
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Patricia Schneider-Zioga (1994) |
The Syntax of Clitic Doubling in Modern Greek |
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Ke Zou (1995) |
The Syntax of the Chinese BA-Contructions and Verb Compounds: A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis |
* deceased
- Chair: James Higginbotham
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