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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

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