Linguistics

Recent Theses

Year Student Thesis Title Advisor
2009 Lindsey Allen Iconicity in the Perception of Speech Rhythm Hibbard
2009 Dustin Bowers Ojibwe Gender and Derivation: A Final Analysis Sabbagh
2009 Peter Farago To Have and Have Not: Unifying Possession in the Sentential and Nominal Domains Sabbagh
2009 Irina Gladkova In Her Image: Iconic Modalities Driving Law, Gender, and Cultural Perceptions of Rape Hibbard
2009 Sarah Gould On the Hive Mind: Explorations in Social Semiotics Hibbard
2009 Wes Hilton The Status of Remote Past BIN in Standard American English Becker
2009 Katherine Judson The Legal Performative, Race, and the Modern Civil Rights Movement: A Study of the Battle Over Semiotic Production of Identity Sabbagh
2009 Molly Lewis A Parallel Formulation of Whorfian and Neo-Whorfian Linguistic Relativity Hibbard
2009 Will Pickett Language and the ‘White Horse’: Two Interpretations of the ‘Gongsun Longzi’ Becker
2009 Aviva Raskin Japanese Women’s Language as a Covert Standard: A Case Study on the Speech of the Gothic-Lolita Sabbagh
2008 Roslyn Burns Gender Stability in Germanic Languages: An Investigation of Plautdietsch in North America and Ingvaeonic Languages Pearson
2008 Jessica Love-Nichols “Who Does He Think He’s Kidding?”: A Linguistic Analysis of John Kerry’s Perceived Inauthenticity in the 2004 Presidential Election Hibbard
2008 Sarah Mitteldorf Where to Find the Missing: Ellipsis, Syntax, Semantics and Context Pearson
2008 Eavan Moore English and Identity: Native Language, Global Language Pearson
2008 Aurora Paulsen Resurrecting the Dead: Revisiting Benjamin Lee Whorf's Principle of Linguistic Relativity Hibbard
2008 Erin Price Evidentiality in Quechua : A Systemic Functional Analysis Pearson, Hibbard
2008 Ke Angie Wang The Brave and the Boldface: A Study of Prosody in Comic Books Hibbard
2008 Margarett Waterbury Talk To Me: A Bakhtinian Approach to Addressivity and Dialogism in Political Speech Hibbard
2007 Sahar Baharloo Words In Space: Is Word a Formal Unit in American Sign Language? Pearson
2007 Susan Barlow An Alignment Analysis of High Tone Spreading in Shona Pearson
2007 Justin Holguín The Status of Ergative Case in Basque: A Minimalist Approach Pearson
2007 Meg Biser “A Mississippi Girl Don't Change Her Ways”: A Linguistic Approach to the Construction of Authenticity in Country Music Hibbard
2007 Nick Callaway Judeo-Spanish and the Success of the Standard: A Case Study of Language Ideology's Role in Language Shift Hibbard
2007 David Freas Imitation Thesis Hibbard
2006 Jesse Hallett Lexical Semantics for Natural Language Processing Pearson
2006 Eliah Hecht The Syntax and Semantics of Focuser “Like” Pearson
2006 Robert Daly Language Revitalization and its Socio-Cultural Context: Chinook Jargon Hibbard
2006 Leah Johnston Sheng and the City Hibbard
2006 Alex Wallace The Linguistic Construction of Events and the Production of Knowledge: Reported speech and Translation in French Newspaper Reports Hibbard
2006 Aurora Davis The Function of -mIş in Turkish Pearson
2005 Roshni Gohil Possessive Constructions and the Morphology and Syntax of Noun Phrases in Turkish Pearson
2005 Laura Jean Long Non-configurational Word Order in Russian Pearson
2005 Kate Paddock The Prosodic Structure of Free Verse, Focusing on the Poetry of William Carlos Williams Pearson
2005 Annelise Uhlig Language Acquisition, Creolization, and the Language Evolution Debate: A Critique of Derek Bickerton's “Proto-language” Hypothesis Pearson
2005 Kirill Shklovsky Person Marking in Petalcingo Tzeltal Haviland
2005 Meg Mitchell The Generation of Referring Expressions in Natural Language Processing Haviland
2005 Heather Campbell Jokoa eta Jolas: Policy Instillation versus Playful Improvisation in the Basque Language Movement Haviland
2005 Mark Evans Rhythmic Asymmetry Haviland
2004 Rene Acosta Case Conflation and Case Attrition in Indo-European Languages Pearson
2004 Hannah Lynn Wh-questions in American Sign Language Pearson
2004 Jessica Coon Roots and Words in Chol (Mayan): A Distributed Morphology Approach Aygen
2004 Laurel Goldstein A Presentist Semantics for Tense Aygen, Hovda
2004 Hester Serebrin Topic, Focus, and Object-Verb Order in Mandarin Pearson
2004 Sarah Coffer To 'He' or not to 'He': The Linguistic and Social Implications of Gendered Pronouns in English Aygen
2003 Jaiva Larsen Merge, Move, and Mate: Is Syntax an Evolutionary Epiphenomenon? Pearson
2003 Nicholas Thornton Performative Differences of Gender in the Prosody of American English Speech Pearson
2003 Richard von Duerckheim Information Structure in Egyptian Arabic Pearson
2003 Chan MacDonald Language Planning and Language Policy: Socio-cultural Integration or Hegemony? The Case(s) of the Soviet Union Haviland
2003 Natasha Milenkaya Stories and Storytellings Haviland
2003 Natalie Tschechaniuk American Sign Language and Language Status: An Examination of the Conflict Haviland
2002 Chris Flink A'unaS a't'sexsa nemi' a't'ssiin: Some Topics in the Inflectional Morphology of Sahaptin and Some Topics in Linguistics Pearson
2002 Andrew Wallace Indexicality and Syntactic Register Variation in English Pearson