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 201 - 250.
Macaulay, Monica: Morphology and Cliticization in Chalcatongo Mixtec, 1987
O'Connor, Mary: Topics in Northern Pomo Grammar, 1987
Turner, Katherine: Aspects of Salinan Grammar, 1987
Zhang, Lian: The Consonant System of Middle-Old Tibetan and the Tonogenesis of Tibetan, 1987
Dahlstrom, Amy: Plains Cree Morphosyntax, 1986
Goral, Donald: Verb Concatenation in Southeast Asian Languages: A Cross-linguistic Study, 1986
Hawkinson, Ann: Bakweri Verb Morphology, 1986
Lambrecht, Knud: Topic, Focus, and the Grammar of Spoken French, 1986
Östman, Jan-Ola: Pragmatics as Implicitness: An Analysis of Question Particles in Solf Swedish, with Implications for the Study of Passive Clauses and the Language of Persuasion, 1986
Petruck, Miriam: Body Part Terminology in Hebrew: A Study in Lexical Semantics, 1986
Solnit, David: A Grammatical Sketch of Eastern Kayah (Red Karen), 1986
Court, Christopher: Fundamentals of Iu Mien (Yao) Grammar, 1985
Kingston, John: The Phonetics and Phonology of the Timing of Oral and Glottal Events, 1985
Okamoto, Shigeko: Ellipsis in Japanese Discourse, 1985
Schlichter, Marie-Alice: The Yukian Language Family, 1985
Downing, Pamela: Japanese Numeral Classifiers: A Syntactic, Semantic, and Functional Profile, 1984
Sweetser, Eve: Semantic Structure and Semantic Change: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Modality, Perception, Speech Acts, and Logical Relations, 1984
van Oosten, Jeanne: The Nature of Subjects, Topics and Agents: A Cognitive Explanation, 1984
Baker-Shenk, Charlotte: A Microanalysis of the Nonmanual Components of Questions in American Sign Language, 1983
Magier, David: Topics in the Grammar of Marwari, 1983
Nagano, Yasuhiko: A Historical Study of the rGyarong Verb System, 1983
Shaterian, Alan: Phonology and Dictionary of Yavapai, 1983
Bauer, Robert: Cantonese Sociolinguistic Patterns: Correlating Social Characteristics of Speakers with Phonological Variables in Hong Kong Cantonese, 1982
Erbaugh, Mary: Coming to Order: Natural Selection and the Origin of Syntax in the Mandarin Speaking Child, 1982
Heller, Monica: Language, Ethnicity and Politics in Quebec, 1982
Kawasaki, Haruko: An Acoustical Basis for Universal Constraints on Sound Sequences, 1982
Shaul, David: A Grammar of Nevome, 1982
Shenaut, Gregory: Finite Paradigm Grammar: A Computational Analysis of Icelandic Inflections, 1982
Dayley, Jon: Tzutujil Grammar, 1981
DuBois, John: The Sacapultec Language, 1981
Hirose, Masayoshi: Japanese and English Contrastive Lexicology: The Role of Japanese "Mimetic Adverbs", 1981
Mandel, Mark: Phonotactics and Morphophonology in American Sign Language, 1981
Michailovsky, Boyd: Grammaire de la Langue Hayu (Népal), 1981
Woodbury, Anthony: Study of the Chevak Dialect of Central Yup'ik Eskimo, 1981
Clancy, Patricia: The Acquisition of Narrative Discourse: A Study in Japanese, 1980
Holland, Gary: Problems of Word Order Change in Selected Indo-European Languages, 1980
McCurdy, Peggy: Talking to Foreigners: The Role of Rapport, 1980
Thompson, Henry: Stress and Salience in English: Theory and Practice, 1980
Whistler, Kenneth: Proto-Wintun Kin Classification: A Case Study in Reconstruction of a Complex Semantic System, 1980
Tannen, Deborah: Processes and Consequences of Conversational Style, 1979
Verschueren, Jozef: What People Say They Do With Words, 1979
Beland, Jean Pierre: Atikamekw Morphology and Lexicon, 1978
Chang, Namgui: Aspects of Korean Diachronic Phonology, 1978
Davidson, Joseph Jr.: A Contrastive Study of the Grammatical Structures of Aymara and Cuzco Kechua, 1977
Faltz, Leonard M: Reflexivization: A Study in Universal Syntax, 1977
Galloway, Brent: A Grammar of Chilliwack Halkomelem, 1977
Jacobson, Pauline: The Syntax of Crossing Coreference Sentences, 1977
Javkin, Hector: Phonetic Universals and Phonological Change, 1977
Klar, Kathryn: Topics in Historical Chumash Grammar, 1977
Okrand, Marc: Mutsun Grammar, 1977