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Aloha In The Desert: Ideologies Of Ka ʻŌlelo HawaiʻI A Mēheuheu, Violet Lovelena Witt
Aloha In The Desert: Ideologies Of Ka ʻŌlelo HawaiʻI A Mēheuheu, Violet Lovelena Witt
Linguistics ETDs
My study involved sociolinguistic interviewing and the gathering of ethnographic data collected to inform a discussion of three interlaced topics; Language and Culture, Language Ideologies, and Language Maintenance. These topics are discussed through the exploration of ka ʻōlelo hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Language) in the cultural context of Hula. Hula is defined as a dance with referential movements and gestures that was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the original settlers (Stillman 1998:1). The goal of this study is to build on previous studies of Hawaiian Ideologies (e.g., Wong 1999, Hall 2005, Malone & Shoda-Sutherland 2005, Halualani 2007, and Snyder-Frey 2013), …
Chinese De Constructions In Secondary Predication: Historical And Typological Perspectives, You-Min Lin
Chinese De Constructions In Secondary Predication: Historical And Typological Perspectives, You-Min Lin
Linguistics ETDs
This dissertation investigates the history of Chinese DE [tə] constructions in light of the typology of secondary predication. A secondary predicate, such as hot in He drank the tea hot, is a predicate that provides subsidiary information to a substructure (the participant tea) of the more salient primary event (drank). Mandarin DE features in two strategies: (i) a DE-marked primary event elaborated by a predicate following it, and (ii) a DE-marked secondary predicate preposed to the primary predicate. Focusing on Late Medieval Chinese (7th to mid-13th c.), the study examines the evolution of the DE-marked strategies from three distinctive constructions: …
Illustrating The Prototype Structures Of Parts Of Speech: A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis, Phillip Rogers
Illustrating The Prototype Structures Of Parts Of Speech: A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis, Phillip Rogers
Linguistics ETDs
Radical Construction Grammar (Croft 2001) proposes that parts of speech can be explained as prototypes that emerge from the use of broad semantic classes of words--objects, properties, and actions--in basic propositional act functions of discourse--reference, modification, and predication. This theory predicts that each of these broad semantic classes will be typologically unmarked in its prototypical propositional act function and relatively marked in other propositional act functions. Because this theory speaks to such a broad and fundamental organization of linguistic structure, the rich structure of these prototypes has not been fully explored in a comprehensive manner. Gradience is a key characteristic …
Verbs Of Speech And Cognition: Structural Patterns In New Mexican Spanish, Víctor A. Valdivia Ruiz
Verbs Of Speech And Cognition: Structural Patterns In New Mexican Spanish, Víctor A. Valdivia Ruiz
Linguistics ETDs
From a usage-based approach, this dissertation explores the relationship between structural variability and discourse subjectivity in a series of interviews from the New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish Survey (Bills and Vigil 2008). Focusing on the use of cognitive and speech verbs, the analysis will demonstrate that a) structural patterns arising from said interaction form a continuum ranging from schematic to fixed constructions; b) the degree of morpho-syntactic variability of these constructions correlates to the speakers stance towards the information being communicated; and c) in actual interaction, speakers frequently introduce subjective nuances, even if the topic of the discourse may …