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A Study For A Lexicon Of Laguna Keresan, Hilaire Paul Valiquette

Anthropology ETDs

Laguna Keres is one of seven Keresan dialects spoken by the Pueblo peoples in New Mexico. The present study focuses on lexical categories in general, and on verb morphology and classification in particular. Language can be construed either as a system governed by universal rules, or as an idiosyncratic listing; the two constructions balance and define each other. In language description, these two approaches usually appear as "grammars" or "lexicons". For Laguna Keres, I argue that division into lexical categories and sub-categories must be based on semantics, morphology, syntax, and phonology.

After a sketch of Laguna Keres, I review previous …

Maternal-Preterm Infant Interaction In The Intensive Care Unit: Intervention And Coping Style Effects, Joy Voyles Browne

Psychology ETDs

This study was designed to determine if short-term education regarding preterm infant behavior or demonstration-interaction with the mother's own infant would cause differences in the mother's knowledge base, behavior with the infant or perception of stress related to parenting. Additionally, individual coping styles of mothers of high risk preterm infants were identified.

Professionalization In Comparative Perspective: Germany, Mcclelland

History Faculty Publications

critical social-history consciousness has abandoned to some degree the old notion that modern "professions" in the Anglo-Saxon sense could not "really" exist in Central Europe because of the heavy and early bureaucratization and/or the persistence of "feudal" or at least Stand (etat) traditions. Instead, most accept the notion of a process of dialogue between independent professions and bureaucratic authority.