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Nembi Discourse Structure, Ruth A. Tipton
Nembi Discourse Structure, Ruth A. Tipton
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis deals with the way paragraphs, sentences, and clauses are brought together in Nembi discourse to form a coherent unit. Insights into discourse structure and discourse analysis gained from Joseph Grimes, Robert E. Longacre, and Michael A. K. Halliday are applied in the study of Nembi narrative and procedural texts. The thesis is based on the analysis of fourteen texts: four procedural and ten narrative. Six of the narratives are ancestral legends, and four are based on recent events. The analysis has led to several conclusions about discourse in the Nembi language.
Discourse is organized into an introduction, a …
A Critique Of Bandler And Grinder's Method Of Mapping Representational Systems, Leslie E. Goldmann
A Critique Of Bandler And Grinder's Method Of Mapping Representational Systems, Leslie E. Goldmann
Dissertations and Theses
People perceive the world in their own terms: our use of language reflects our perceptions. The way in which we perceive the world and the words we use to reflect that perception Grinder and Bandler (1976) call a "representational system." The authors isolate three types of representational systems, visual, kinesthetic, and auditory, and they present a technique for mapping these systems. These authors state that a sensory preference profile can be mapped accurately and reliably via an individual's use of language. For example, words such as "clear," "see" and expressions of the kind "I get a picture" would connote a …
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 29, No. 1, Robert Markle Blackson, C. Lee Hopple, Mac E. Barrick, Gideon L. Fisher
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 29, No. 1, Robert Markle Blackson, C. Lee Hopple, Mac E. Barrick, Gideon L. Fisher
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• A Letter from California: John A. Markle in the Gold Rush
• Spatial Organization of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Plain Dutch Group Culture Region to 1975
• Folk Toys
• Farming in the Depression Years
• Aldes un Neies
The Informant Volume Xii, Number 1, Western Michigan University
The Informant Volume Xii, Number 1, Western Michigan University
Informant (1968-1981)
Volume XII, Number 1
Fall 1979
- National Languages and the French of Niger
- Defining Imperatives
- Faculty/Staff News
- Visiting Scholars
- Critical Language Teaching Assistants
- Recent Graduates/New Students
- Alumnae/Alumni News
- Language and Linguistics Forum
- Record Enrollments
- Loans and Scholarships
- Correspondence
- Linguistics Department Winter 1980
Bulletin Of The Amerindian Languages Project Vol. 3 No. 4, October, 1979, Walter Edwards, Amerindian Languages Project, University Of Guyana
Bulletin Of The Amerindian Languages Project Vol. 3 No. 4, October, 1979, Walter Edwards, Amerindian Languages Project, University Of Guyana
English Faculty Research Publications
Table of Contents:
Some general information about the Wapishanas
Some words and phrases with Wapishana equivalents
The Interpretation Of Generic Language As Male Or Male/Female By Nine And Ten Year Old Children, Jane H. Vander Weyden
The Interpretation Of Generic Language As Male Or Male/Female By Nine And Ten Year Old Children, Jane H. Vander Weyden
Masters Theses
No abstract provided.
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, Folk Festival Supplement, Gail Eaby Hartmann, Richard C. Gougler, Marie Gottshall, Theodore W. Jentsch, Robert Doney, Lester Breininger, Joyce Goodhart Zupan, Louise Hyde, James Portlock, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, Folk Festival Supplement, Gail Eaby Hartmann, Richard C. Gougler, Marie Gottshall, Theodore W. Jentsch, Robert Doney, Lester Breininger, Joyce Goodhart Zupan, Louise Hyde, James Portlock, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Fifteen Years of Quilting at the Festival
• The Shunning
• Band Boxes
• Cooking for the Lord
• A Harvest of Handicrafted Items from the Craft Stalls
• Festival Focus
• Folk Festival Programs
• Country Auctions: Going, Going, But Not Gone!
• A Look at PA. Dutch Folk Art Through the Eye of a Needle
• Herb Vinegars, Jellies and Salad Dressings
• Modern, Clean Rest Rooms: They are Appreciated!
• Decorative Painting
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 4, C. Lee Hopple, Albert T. Gamon, William U. Helfferich, Ludwig Schandein, Willoughby W. Moyer, Mac E. Barrick
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 4, C. Lee Hopple, Albert T. Gamon, William U. Helfferich, Ludwig Schandein, Willoughby W. Moyer, Mac E. Barrick
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• European Religious and Spatial Origins of the Pennsylvania Plain Dutch
• Story of a Stove
• Journal of Rev. Johann Heinrich Helfferich
• Die Auswannerer: The Emigrants
• Abstract of Diary of Warren G. Bean, 1899
• Cumberland County Deathlore
• Aldes un Neies
Language Contact And Word Order Change In Nobiin Nubian, Nahed Adly
Language Contact And Word Order Change In Nobiin Nubian, Nahed Adly
Archived Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 3, William T. Parsons, David H. Rapp, Phyllis Vibbard Parsons, Alfred L. Creager, Alvin F. Kemp
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 3, William T. Parsons, David H. Rapp, Phyllis Vibbard Parsons, Alfred L. Creager, Alvin F. Kemp
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Lebenslauf of John Nicholas Schaefer
• Philip Jacob Michael: Ecclesiastical Vagabond or "Echt Reformirte" Pastor
• Drum! Drum! Drum!
• Kartz G'dichte (Short Poems)
• More Dialect Stories
• Aldes un Neies
Estudio Etimologico: Una Perspectiva Socio-Linguística E Histórica Del Habla Chicano., Arnold C. Vento
Estudio Etimologico: Una Perspectiva Socio-Linguística E Histórica Del Habla Chicano., Arnold C. Vento
NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings
No abstract provided.
A Diachronic Explanation For The Origin Of Ovs In Some Carib Languages, Desmond C. Derbyshire
A Diachronic Explanation For The Origin Of Ovs In Some Carib Languages, Desmond C. Derbyshire
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
Derbyshire and Pullum (1979, this volume) report on the evidence they have accumulated during the past two years showing the likely existence of twelve languages with object-initial basic order (OVS or OSV). Such languages are contrary to what had been generally predicted in the literature on word order typology until 1977. All twelve languages are found in what might broadly be termed the Amazon basin of South America. Seven of the eight OVS languages belong to the Carib family.
This paper suggests a possible diachronic explanation for the emergence of OVS as a basic order in Carib languages. It takes …
Object Initial Languages, Desmond C. Derbyshire, Geoffrey K. Pullum
Object Initial Languages, Desmond C. Derbyshire, Geoffrey K. Pullum
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction: "The purpose of the present paper is to present some facts that have come to our attention recently concerning a number of Amerindian languages which we believe do exhibit object-initial basic orders. The languages we shall discuss belong to South American Indian groups which are known to have suffered more or less catatrophic decline in numbers due to the onslaught of European settlement in the New World over the past five hundred years (see Hemming 1978). Since the historical accident of European colonial expansionism has had such a devastating effect in this case, linguists might be well …
The Abstract Consonant In Seri, Stephen A. Marlett
The Abstract Consonant In Seri, Stephen A. Marlett
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction: "The hallmark of generative phonology has been the postulation of unique underlying representations for morphemes and the derivation of surface allomorphs by means of a set of rules. In order for these rules to have the greatest generality possible, a number of linguists have proposed solutions involving underlying segments that never reach the surface with the same feature specifications that they had at the underlying level. These 'abstract' solutions have generally posited segments whose features are fully specified. [...]
"Abstract solutions have generated an abundance of discussion and some alternative proposals have been presented for most of …
Grammatical Relations In Universal Grammar, Donald G. Frantz
Grammatical Relations In Universal Grammar, Donald G. Frantz
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction: "[W]e shall look at a number of recurring language phenomena involving grammatical relations. Because most of these allow a universal formulation only in terms of relational networks rather than linear or constituent structures, we shall make use of Postal and Perlmutter's promising framework, generally referred to as Relational Grammar (RG)."
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 2, Nancy K. Wierman, Joyce Demcher Moran, Louis Winkler, Alvin F. Kemp, Judith E. Fryer
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 2, Nancy K. Wierman, Joyce Demcher Moran, Louis Winkler, Alvin F. Kemp, Judith E. Fryer
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• The Pennsylvania Dutchman
• Miz Ukraini: "We are From the Ukraine"
• Pennsylvania German Astronomy and Astrology XVII: German Language Almanacs
• Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect Stories
• Taufscheine: A New Index for People Hunters, Part II
• Aldes un Neies
Personal And Impersonal Passives In Seri, Stephen A. Marlett
Personal And Impersonal Passives In Seri, Stephen A. Marlett
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction: "In this paper I will examine and discuss passive constructions in Seri. My purpose will be basically two-fold: first, to present descriptive and typological facts concerning these constructions. My second purpose is to discuss how these facts should be accounted for in an explicit grammar. The paper is divided into three major sections in which alternative treatments of these clauses are discussed. In order to compare these alternatives, I will make them explicit in terms of relational grammar (Perlmutter (1978a, 1978b, in press, to appear), Perlmutter and Postal (1977, in press a, in press b, to appear)). …
Reduplication And Accent In Southeastern Tepehuan, Elizabeth R. Willett
Reduplication And Accent In Southeastern Tepehuan, Elizabeth R. Willett
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
From the introduction: "In the early stages of analysis, Southeastern Tepehuan (SET) vowel length appeared to be conditioned by accent. Although accent fell in a majority of words on closed syllables, there were so many exceptions that no general statement could be made. Thus accent was relegated to being a feature of the underlying character of roots. Reduplicated forms, however, were a confusing body of unpredictable accent; if accent were phonemic, why did it occur on the root syllable of some forms, and on the reduplicated syllable in others? Some plurals were judged irregular because they seemed to lose or …
Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 23 (1979)
Front Matter For Sil-Und Work Papers Vol. 23 (1979)
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session
No abstract provided.
The Informant Volume Xi, Number 2, Western Michigan University
The Informant Volume Xi, Number 2, Western Michigan University
Informant (1968-1981)
Volume XI, Number 2
Winter 1979
- Chomsky's Visit to WMU
- The Language and Linguistics Forum
- The Informant
- Career English Program
- Latvian Studies Program
- Course and Curriculum Changes for 1979-80
- Faculty/Staff News
- New Students -- Recent Graduates
- Student/Alumni News
- Undergraduate Major and Minor
- Critical Language Minor
- Graduate Major
- Linguistics Department Fall 1979
On Stress And Syllabification, John J. Mccarthy
On Stress And Syllabification, John J. Mccarthy
John J. McCarthy
Of all the diverse properties of segmental strings, syllable structure is the one that stress rules most often refer to. In fact, they refer to a quite specific aspect of syllable structure: syllable weight. Generally, it is this distinction between heavy and light syllables that affects the placement of stress. The richness of this problem is apparent from its ramifications. First, in many languages the notion "heavy syllable" invokes a disjunction of syllables containing a long vowel or diphthong and syllables with a short vowel but closed by a consonant. Second, though heavy syllables often attract the stress, they sometimes …
Some Aboriginal Minnesota Names Borrowed From Sanskrit And Japanese, Donald B. Lawrence, Makarand Jawadekar
Some Aboriginal Minnesota Names Borrowed From Sanskrit And Japanese, Donald B. Lawrence, Makarand Jawadekar
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
In some American aboriginal words, similarities in phonetics and meaning suggest borrowing, especially from Japanese, or some language(s) from which it is derived, and from Sanskrit, the mother tongue of India, or its Indo-European predecessor. This work suggests that exploration of American Indian names may have important application to human migrations, perhaps even in pre-Columbian time. Intensive research might reveal specific regions of origin of names and of the people who brought them, and may even suggest the time and mode of travel. These studies, concentrated on the Pacific coastal regions of the Western Hemisphere, point to the Middle East …
On Stress And Syllabification, John J. Mccarthy
On Stress And Syllabification, John J. Mccarthy
Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series
Of all the diverse properties of segmental strings, syllable structure is the one that stress rules most often refer to. In fact, they refer to a quite specific aspect of syllable structure: syllable weight. Generally, it is this distinction between heavy and light syllables that affects the placement of stress. The richness of this problem is apparent from its ramifications. First, in many languages the notion "heavy syllable" invokes a disjunction of syllables containing a long vowel or diphthong and syllables with a short vowel but closed by a consonant. Second, though heavy syllables often attract the stress, they sometimes …
Review Of Welsh And The Other Dying Languages In Europe: A Sociolinguistic Study, By Max K. Adler, Nancy C. Dorian
Review Of Welsh And The Other Dying Languages In Europe: A Sociolinguistic Study, By Max K. Adler, Nancy C. Dorian
German Faculty Research and Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Techniques For Remediating Errors Made By Spanish Speakers Of Esl, Edmundo J. Mora
Techniques For Remediating Errors Made By Spanish Speakers Of Esl, Edmundo J. Mora
MA TESOL Collection
No abstract provided.
A Generative Language Approach To Esl For Children: Considerations And Activities, Monique H.W.C. Noyons Gehman
A Generative Language Approach To Esl For Children: Considerations And Activities, Monique H.W.C. Noyons Gehman
MA TESOL Collection
The purpose of this project is to provide ESL teachers of primary aged children with a guide to using a generative language approach. The guide includes teaching considerations relevant both to teaching children in general, and specifically to teaching ESL. A great variety of activities are presented, focusing on the total development of the child as well as the creative use of language. In addition, suggested readings and resources are listed, some for theoretical background and others for use in classroom.
Designing And Implementing A University Level English As A Second Language Program, Janice Gallagher
Designing And Implementing A University Level English As A Second Language Program, Janice Gallagher
MA TESOL Collection
This paper represents a one year study of the steps taken to devise and implement an English as a Second Language (ESL) program at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. The study involves analyzing the teaching / learning environment; designing, implementing and evaluating the program; and analyzing the results for future programs of this nature. The paper focuses on the intermediate and advanced ESL student and includes suggestions for materials development at each particular level. The purpose of the paper is to provide a practical outline for those teachers or administrators whose task is to initiate a formal ESL …
A Cultural Observation Project For Outbound Students To France, Fiona Stewart Cook
A Cultural Observation Project For Outbound Students To France, Fiona Stewart Cook
MA TESOL Collection
This project contains guided question sheets and topics for discussions on cultural values which I developed while leading a summer Outbound group to France. They are designed to help students who are in an immersion or homestay siatuation to focus their attention on the various aspects of everyday life in France, to make careful observations, to share and compare their findings with other group members with the goal of gaining greater understanding of and appreciation for the French culture
Teaching Pronunciation In An Undefined Curriculum, Joan Elaine Branson
Teaching Pronunciation In An Undefined Curriculum, Joan Elaine Branson
MA TESOL Collection
No abstract provided.
Observations On The Language Acquisition Of A Thai/English Bilingual Child, Michael A. Betcher
Observations On The Language Acquisition Of A Thai/English Bilingual Child, Michael A. Betcher
MA TESOL Collection
A child subject, bilingual in Thai and English, was studied during his 25th months for aspects of transference* and interference in his developing speech. A speach diary was kept on a daily basis. Attention was focused on prosodic features (intonation/tonality), word borrowing and code switching. Examples of all these phenomena were recorded, but the most significant was that of prosodic interference, wherein English intonation indicating stress, excitement or urgency was carried over into the strictly regulated Thai intonation system. * A term which is used to avoid the negative implications of "interference" and to indicate the use of a syncretic …