Dissertations, Department of Linguistics
With the first linguistics department to be established in North America (in 1901), Berkeley has a rich and distinguished tradition of rigorous linguistic documentation and theoretical innovation, making it an exciting and fulfilling place to carry out linguistic research. Its original mission, due to the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and the Sanskrit and Dravidian scholar Murray B. Emeneau, was the recording and describing of unwritten languages, especially American Indian languages spoken in California and elsewhere in the United States. The current Department of Linguistics continues this tradition, integrating careful, scholarly documentation with cutting-edge theoretical work in phonetics, phonology and morphology; syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics; historical linguistics; typology; and cognitive linguistics.
There are 284 publications in this collection, published between 1957 and 2024. Showing 151 - 200.
Aske, Jon: Basque Word Order and Disorder Principles, Variation, and Prospects, 1997
Berge, Anna: Topic and Discourse Structure in West Greenlandic Agreement Constructions, 1997
Bucholtz, Mary: Borrowed Blackness: African American Vernacular English and European American Youth Identities, 1997
Gamon, David: The Grammaticalization of Grammatical Relations: A Typological and Historical Study Involving Kashaya Pomo, Old English, and Modern English, 1997
Grady, Joseph: Foundations of Meaning: Primary Metaphors and Primary Scenes, 1997
Ngunga, Armindo: Lexical Phonology and Morphology and the Ciyao Verb System, 1997
Taub, Sarah: Language in the Body: Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language, 1997
Berenz, Norine: Person and Deixis in Brazilian Sign Language, 1996
Cotter, Colleen: Irish on the Air: Media, Discourse, and Minority-Language Development, 1996
Mathangwane, Joyce: Phonetics and Phonology of Ikalanga: A Diachronic and Synchronic Study, 1996
Ohara, Kyoko: A Constructional Approach to Japanese Internally Headed Relativization, 1996
Orgun, Cemil: Sign-based Morphology and Phonology with Special Attention to Optimality Theory, 1996
Zoll, Cheryl: Parsing Below the Segment in a Constraint Based Framework, 1996
Hall, Kira: Hijra/Hijrin: Language and Gender Identity, 1995
Lowe, John: Cross-linguistic Lexicographic Databases for Etymological Research, with Examples from Sino-Tibetan and Bantu Languages, 1995
Wee, Hock: Cognition in Grammar: The Problem of Verbal Prefixation in Malay, 1995
Hubbard, Kathleen: Duration in Moraic Theory, 1994
Park, Jeong-Woon: Morphological Causatives in Korean: Problems in Grammatical Polysemy and Constructional Relations, 1994
Filip, Hana: Aspect, Situation Types and Nominal Reference, 1993
Gensler, Orin: A Typological Evaluation of Celtic/Hamito-Semitic Syntactic Parallels, 1993
Michaelis, Laura: Toward a Grammar of Aspect: The Case of the English Perfect Construction, 1993
Rugemalira, Josephat: Runyambo Verb Extensions and Constructions on Predicate Structure, 1993
Sun, Tianshin: A Historical-comparative Study of the Tani (Mirish) Branch in Tibeto-Burman, 1993
Teo, Kok: A Sociolinguistic Description of the Peranakan Chinese of Kelantan, Malaysia, 1993
Buckley, Eugene III: Theoretical Aspects of Kashaya Phonology and Morphology, 1992
Cherry, John: Animism in Thought and Language, 1992
Goldberg, Adele: Argument Structure Constructions, 1992
Hasegawa, Yoko: Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of TE-Linkage in Japanese, 1992
Ohori, Toshio: Diachrony in Clause Linkage and Related Issues, 1992
Emanatian, Michele: Grammatical Polysemy: The Systematicity of Multiple Meanings in Grammar, 1991
Herring, Susan: Functions of the Verb in Tamil Narration, 1991
Moonwomon, Birch: Sound Change in San Francisco English, 1991
Morgan, Lawrence: A Description of the Kutenai Language, 1991
Niepokuj, Mary: The Historical Development of Reduplication, with Special Reference to Indo-European, 1991
Nikiforidou, Vasiliki: Conditional and Concessive Clauses in Modern Greek: A Syntactic and Semantic Description, 1991
Pederson, Eric: Subtle Semantics: Universals in the Polysemy of Reflexive and Causative Constructions, 1991
Wilson, Stephen: Patterns of Change in Prosodic Systems, 1991
LaPolla, Randy: Grammatical Relations in Chinese: Synchronic and Diachronic Considerations, 1990
Salomão, Maria-Margarida: Polysemy, Aspect and Modality in Brazilian Portuguese: The Case for a Cognitive Explanation of Grammar, 1990
Faraclas, Nicholas: A Grammar of Nigerian Pidgin, 1989
Matsumoto, Yoshiko: Grammar and Semantics of Adnominal Clauses in Japanese, 1989
Brugman, Claudia: The Syntax and Semantics of HAVE and its Complements, 1988
Childs, George: The Phonology and Morphology of Kisi, 1988
Larsen, Thomas: Manifestations of Ergativity in Quiché Grammar, 1988
Macri, Martha: A Descriptive Grammar of Palenque Mayan, 1988
Peet, Margot: Postlexical Palatalization in English: An Acoustic-phonetic Study, 1988
Watters, James: Topics in Tepehua Grammar, 1988
Ackerman, Farrell: Miscreant Morphemes: Phrasal Predicates in Ugric, 1987
Hunold, Karen: Conversational Processes in Television Commercials, 1987
Lien, Chinfa: Coexistent Tone Systems in Chinese Dialects, 1987