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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 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

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