Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

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41. Turn-taking in English and Japanese

    Projectability in Grammar, Intonation and Semantics

    By Hiroko Furo

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book examines turn-taking in English and Japanese conversations and political news interviews to investigate the relationship between language and interaction....

    Published May 7th 2001 by Routledge
42. Long-Distance Dependencies

    By Mihoko Zushi

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book investigates the theory of locality within the framework of minimalism, with a special focus on restructuring and other related phenomena that exhibit an apparent violation of the strictly local conditions....

    Published March 13th 2001 by Routledge
43. The Serial Verb Construction Parameter

    By Osamuyimen Thompson Stewart

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    An investigation of the serial verb construction, this work engages central issues in syntactic theory-complex predicates, clausal architecture and syntactic variation....

    Published February 7th 2001 by Routledge
44. The Morphosyntax of the Algonquian Conjunct Verb

    A Minimalist Approach

    By Julie Brittain

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    The book investigates the synatctic distribution of the Algonquian Conjuct verb from the theoretical perspective of the Minimalist Program....

    Published February 4th 2001 by Routledge
45. Consonant Strength

    Phonological Patterns and Phonetic Manifestations

    By Lisa M. Lavoie

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book is a detailed examination of the phonetics and phonology of consonant strength, drawing data from parallel acoustic and articulatory studies of English and Spanish, as well as a cross linguistic survey of lenition and fortition....

    Published January 28th 2001 by Routledge
46. Patterns of Reduplication in Lushootseed

    By Suzanne Urbanczyk

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    A detailed examination of three reduplicative morphemes in Lushootseed (Central Salish), arguing that every aspect of their phonological effect follows from being specified as either root or affix....

    Published January 10th 2001 by Routledge
47. Phonological Relations Between Words

    By Laura Benua

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book develops the hypothesis that morphologically-related words are required to be phonologically identical by ranked and violable constraints....

    Published July 26th 2000 by Routledge
48. Layers in the Determiner Phrase

    By Rob Zamparelli

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    The main topic of this work is the interaction between syntactic structure and meanin within the noun phrase, with data drwn primarily from English and Italian....

    Published June 26th 2000 by Routledge
49. Prosody and Focus in European Portuguese

    Phonological Phrasing and Intonation

    By Sonia Frota

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    First published in 2000...

    Published May 16th 2000 by Routledge
50. Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects

    By Rachel Walker

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book explores cross linguistic variation in nasalization....

    Published May 2nd 2000 by Routledge