Dissertations / Theses: 'Sanskrit language and grammar'

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Verhagen, Pieter Cornelis. "Sanskrit grammatical literature in Tibet : a study of the Indo-Tibetan canonical literature on Sanskrit grammar and the development of Sanskrit studies in Tibet /." [Leiden?] : P. C. Verhagen, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35502127q.

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Kumashiro, Fumiko. "Phonotactic interactions : a non-reductionist approach to phonology /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9963655.

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Aussant, Émilie. "La notion de saṃjñā dans la tradition grammaticale pāṇinéenne : quand la forme du mot se fait sens." Paris 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA030031.

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La notion de saðjñ (litt. " ce qui fait l'objet d'une connaissance commune ") sert à désigner, dans le domaine grammatical, des réalités linguistiques (nom propre, terme technique, autonyme, etc. ) a priori incompatibles. En se fondant sur un certain nombre de textes appartenant à la tradition p½inéenne et couvrant une période allant du 5ème s. Av. Notre ère jusqu'au 18ème s. , le présent travail se propose de mettre en évidence la " nature " des items qualifiés de saðjñ dans le contexte métalinguistique et, par là, de donner une définition unitaire de la notion, qui soit conforme à la pensée grammaticale sanskrite. Cette " nature " est à chercher au niveau de la connotation des items : est qualifiée de saðjñ toute unité linguistique connotant sa forme propre, c'est-à-dire, son signifiant
The notion of saðjñ (litt. “what is the subject of a common knowledge”) is used to designate, in the grammatical domain, linguistic entities (proper name, technical term, autonym, etc. ) a priori non-compatible. By basing on a certain number of texts belonging to the p½inian tradition and covering a period going from the 5th century B. C. To the 18th century, this work attempts to reveal the “nature” of the items called saðjñ in the metalinguistic field and, from there, to give a unified definition of this notion, in accordance with the sanskrit grammatical thought. This “nature” is to be found in the items' connotation : is called saðj½ a linguistic unity signifying its own form, i. E. Its significant

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Ciotti, Giovanni. "The representation of Sanskrit speech-sounds : philological and linguistic historiographies." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608079.

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Clarke, Martin Preston. "Language, grammar and being." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242824.

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Lowe, John J. "The syntax and semantics of tense-aspect stem participles in early Ṛgvedic Sanskrit." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:45516bfd-cffb-457a-904c-100695cbd938.

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In this thesis I investigate the syntax and semantics of tense-aspect stem participles in the Ṛgveda, focusing primarily on the data from the earlier books II–VII and IX, seeking to establish a comprehensive and coherent analysis of this category within the linguistic system of Ṛgvedic Sanskrit. In recent literature tense-aspect stem participles are usually treated as semantically equivalent to finite verbs wherever possible, but contradictorily where they differ from finite verbs their adjectival nature is emphasized. I argue that tense-aspect stem participles are a fundamentally verbal formation and can be treated as inflectional verb forms: they are adjectival verbs rather than verbal adjectives. At the same time, however, they constitute an independent sub-category of verb form which is not necessarily semantically dependent on corresponding finite stems. I examine the syntactic and semantic properties of tense-aspect stem participles both in relation to finite verbal forms and their wider syntactic context, formalizing the evidence in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. Consequently I am able to categorize the syntactic and semantic deviations which many participles exhibit in comparison to finite verbal forms. I contend that many such forms cannot be treated synchronically (and sometimes diachronically) as participles, but form distinct synchronic categories. My analysis permits a considerably more refined definition of the category of tense-aspect stem participles, dependent on clear morphological, syntactic and semantic criteria, as opposed to the usual, purely morphological, definition. From a diachronic perspective I argue that the category of tense-aspect stem participles as found in the Ṛgveda more closely reflects an inherited Proto-Indo-European category of tense-aspect stem participles than is usually assumed. I also reconsider theoretical treatments of participial syntax and semantics, and develop a more precise typology of non-finite verb systems which adequately accounts for Sanskrit participles.

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Saleemi, Anjum P. "Universal grammar and language learnability /." Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35562111k.

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Barrett, Edward Rush. "A grammar of Sipakapense Maya /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Ofori, Seth. "Topics in Akan grammar." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3234480.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Linguistics, 2006.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Nov. 20, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3381. Adviser: Stuart Davis.

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Soe, Myint. "A grammar of Burmese /." view abstract or download file of text, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9957575.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1999.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 351-362). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9957575.

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Loughnane, Robyn. "A grammar of Oskapmin /." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/4788.

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Gustafson, Holly Suzanne. "A grammar of the Nipmuck language." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ53163.pdf.

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Shi, Enchao. "Second language grammar and secondary predication." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289919.

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This study aims to formulate a theory of L2 grammar adequate enough to account for the final L2 state. We argued that L 2 I-language was free of L1 properties, the basis of the CHL2 Uniformity Hypothesis (CUH), and that L1-related performance data were effects of the Relativized Transfer Condition (RTC), constituting the L2 performance systems. The English resultatives (Mary painted the house red), available in Mandarin and depictives (John ate the meat raw), unavailable in Mandarin, were used to examine the hypotheses. Nineteen Mandarin speakers of English and nineteen native speakers of English participated in the study. The L2 subjects had lived in the United States for an average of ten years and 5 months at the time of the experiments. The subjects were tested in four experiments: the Guided Production (GP) test, the Clause-combining (CC) test, the Grammaticality Judgment (GJ) test, and the Interpretation (IT) test. Results were processed through t-tests, one-way ANOVA, and factorial ANOVA procedures. Important findings emerged. First, L 2 subjects showed knowledge of both English resultatives and depictives, indistinct from that of the controls in some, but not all, tests. Second, while their knowledge of the canonical constructions resembled that of the controls, L2 subjects were more reluctant to construct resultatives and depictives than the native counterparts in some tests. We attribute such irregularities to the modality of measurements, which affected the L 2 subjects' performance, but not their grammatical knowledge. This speculation was confirmed in experiments (i.e., the CC, GJ, and IT tests), where L 2 subjects, when specifically directed to produce resultatives and depictives, performed just like the controls. We therefore conclude that the final L 2 state coincides with the final state attained by the native speakers. We further claim that it is logical to speculate that the linguistic and acquisitional mechanisms that led to the final L2 state must constitute exactly the same set as the one employed by the native speakers. Therefore, we conclude that the CUH (CHL2 Uniformity Hypothesis) is true of late L 2 speakers. By the same token, we also conclude that the RTC (Relativized Transfer Condition) consists of adult L2 development.

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Haag, Pascale. "L'un et le multiple : théorie du nombre dans la grammaire pāṇinéenne et ses relations avec le Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika." Paris 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA030052.

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Cette étude vise à analyser le traitement du nombre grammatical dans la tradition sanskrite paõinéenne et à replacer dans une perspective historique les spéculations qui s'y rattachent. Elle montre en particulier que les grammairiens indiens, tout en se réservant le droit de donner la prééminence à leur approche linguistique, ne se sont pas désintéressés des problèmes de logique liés à la catégorie du nombre. Afin de mieux appréhender le cadre dans lequel s'inscrit cette réflexion, la première partie de ce travail est consacrée à la théorie du nombre dans le Nyaya et le Vaiseùika ; elle comprend des traductions annotées des Vaiseùikasutra relatifs à cette catégorie (début de n. è. ?), du chapitre sur le nombre du Padarthadharmasai͏̈graha (VIe s. ?) et d'une section du Nyayabhuùaõa (Xe s. ?). La seconde partie, dévolue au nombre dans la grammaire paõinéenne, prend appui à titre principal sur le Vakyapadiya (VP) de Bhartçhari (Ve s. ?), et notamment sur le chapitre sur le nombre (VP 3. 11). .
The present work deals with the treatment of grammatical number in the Paõinian tradition of Sanskrit grammar and the historical development of the theory of number. It demonstrates in particular that, even if Indian Grammarians gave priority to their linguistic approach, logical problems related to the category of 'number' did not escape their attention. In order to furnish a better understanding of the context of this linguistic reflection, the first part is centred on the theory of number in Nyaya and Vaiseùika. It contains annotated translations of the Vaiseùikasutras (beginning of the Christian era) related to this category, of the section on number in the Padarthadharmasai͏̈graha (6th cent. ?), and of a passage of the Nyayabhuùaõa (10th cent. ?). The second part, devoted to the theory of number in Paõinian grammar, is focussed on Bhart. Rhari's Vakyapadiya (VP) (5th cent. ?), and especially on the chapter on 'number' (VP 3. 11). .

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Peterson, Randall L. "The layman's Greek grammar." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Vidal, Alejandra. "Pilagá grammar (Guaykuruan family, Argentina) /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3004006//.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 382-391). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Zalewski, Jan P. Hawkins Bruce Wayne. "Redefining the global grammar towards the development of a communicatively-oriented pedagogical grammar of English as a second language /." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1992. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9311294.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1992.
Title from title page screen, viewed February 8, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Bruce Hawkins (chair), Irene Brosnahan, Douglas Hesse, Sandra Metts, Margaret Steffensen. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 265-284) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Zhang, Paiyu, and 张派予. "The Kilen language of Manchuria: grammar of amoribund Tungusic language." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B49858816.

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This thesis is the first comprehensive reference grammar of Kilen, a lesser known and little studied language of the Tungusic Family. At present, Kilen is a moribund language with less than 10 bilingual speakers in the eastern part of Heilongjiang Province of P.R.China. Since the language does not have a writing system, the examples are provided in IPA transcription with morpheme tagging. This thesis is divided into eight chapters. Chapter 1 states the background information of Kilen language in terms of Ethnology, Migration and Language Contact. Beginning from Chapter 2, the language is described in the aspects of Phonology, Morphology and Syntax. This thesis is mainly concerned with morphosyntactic aspects of Kilen. Chapters 6-8 provide a portrait of Kilen syntactic organization. The sources for this description include the work of You Zhixian (1989), which documents oral literature originally recorded by You himself, a fluent Kilen native speaker; example sentences drawn from previous linguistic descriptions, mainly those of An (1985) and You & Fu (1987); author’s field records and personal consultation data recorded and transcribed by the author and Wu Mingxiang, one of the last fluent native speakers. The aim is to provide a portrait of a Chinese Tungusic language on the brink of extinction. This thesis does not adopt any particular syntactic theoretical framework. The terminology in this thesis is tended to be theory-free and descriptive.
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Linguistics
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Shih, Hsue-Hueh. "Computer assisted grammar construction." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387694.

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Gao, Qian. "Argument structure, HPSG, and Chinese grammar /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488204276532252.

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Hamrick, Phillip. "The Effectiveness of Cognitive Grammar and Traditional Grammar in L1 Pedagogy: An Empirical Test." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1212177577.

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Chiu, Lai-wan Hazel. "Consciousness-raising and the acquisition of grammar." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161823.

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Johnson, Heidi Anna. "A grammar of San Miguel Chimalapa Zoque /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Rosés, Labrada Jorge Emilio. "The Mako language : vitality, Grammar and Classification." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO20026.

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Ce projet vise la documentation et la description du mako, une langue autochtone parlée par environ 1200 personnes dans l’Amazonie vénézuélienne et pour laquelle le seul matériel accessible à date se limite à 38 mots. L’objectif principal est de créer une collection de textes ethnographiques annotés et, à long terme, une grammaire de la langue qui puisse servir comme point de départ pour des activités d’appui au maintien de la langue dans la communauté et pour avancer la recherche linguistique. Un objectif secondaire est d’établir le degré de vitalité de la langue telle que parlée chez les différentes communautés mako. Cette recherche mènera à une description des différents aspects de la grammaire de la langue, par exemple sa phonologie, sa morphologie et sa syntaxe. En plus de contribuer à l’étude et description des autres membres de la famille linguistique sáliba et à la reconstruction de leur proto-langue commune, les données du mako contribueront aussi à des discussions sur comment le langage fonctionne et seront donc un apport précieux pour la théorie linguistique. Cette recherche fera avancer la théorie de la documentation des langues et pourra donc faciliter les efforts de documentation et maintien des langues d’autres communautés indigènes. Le projet constitue une application du modèle de travail de terrain Community-Based Language Research
This dissertation focuses on the documentation and description of Mako, an indigenous language spoken in the Venezuelan Amazon by about 1000 people and for which the only available published material at the start of the project were 38 words. The main goals of the project were to create a collection of annotated ethnographic texts and a grammar that could serve as a starting point for both language maintenance in the community and for further linguistic research. Additionally, the project sought to assess the language’s vitality in the communities where it is spoken and to understand the relationship of Mako to the two other extant Sáliban languages, namely Piaroa and Sáliba.This research has thus led to an assessment of language vitality in the Mako communities of the Ventuari River, a comprehensive description of the Mako language—heretofore undescribed—, and an evaluation of the genetic relationship between the three Sáliban languages. The description of the language covers a wide range of topics in areas such as phonetics and phonology, nominal and verbal morphology, and syntax of both simple and complex sentences. Discourse-level morphology and discourse-organization strategies are also covered. Aside from facilitating the study of other members of the Sáliban family and reconstruction of the common ancestral language, the description of Mako also contributes to the typology of Amazonian languages and to our understanding of the pre-history of this area of the Orinoco basin. The products of this project also have the potential to be mobilized in language literacy efforts in the Mako communities

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Borg, Simon. "Teacher cognition in second language grammar teaching." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284617.

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Liew, Haldane. "SGML : a meta-language for shape grammar." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/26744.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2004.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
"September 2004."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-204).
A shape grammar develops a drawing through a series of transformations by repeatedly applying if-then rules. Although the rules can be designed, in principle, to construct any type of drawing, the drawings they construct may not necessarily develop in the manner intended by the designer of the grammar. In this thesis, I introduce a shape grammar meta-language that adds power to grammars based on the shape grammar language. Using the shape grammar meta-language, the author of a grammar can: (1) explicitly determine the sequence in which a set of rules is applied; (2) restrict rule application through a filtering process; and (3) use context to guide the rule matching process, all of which provide a guided design experience for the user of the grammar. Three example grammars demonstrate the effectiveness of the meta-language. The first example is the Bilateral Grid grammar which demonstrates how the meta-language facilitates the development of grammars that offer users multiple design choices. The second grammar is the Hexagon Path grammar which demonstrates how the metalanguage is useful in contexts other than architectural design. The third and most ambitious example is the Durand grammar which embodies the floor plan design process described in Précis of the Lectures of Architecture, written by JNL Durand, an eighteenth century architectural educator. Durand's floor plan design process develops a plan through a series of transformations from grid to axis to parti to wall. The corresponding Durand grammar, which consists of 74 rules and 15 macros organized into eight stages, captures Durand's ideas and fills in gaps in Durand's description of his process. A key contribution of this thesis is the seven descriptors that constitute the meta-language. The descriptors are used in grammar rules: (1) to organize a set of rules for the user to choose from; (2) to group together a series of rules; (3) to filter information in a drawing; (4) to constrain where a rule can apply; and (5) to control how a rule is applied. The end result is a language that allows the author to create grammars that guide users by carefully controlling the design process in the manner intended by the author.
by Haldane Liew.
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Imssalem, Nuwara Mohammed. "Communicative pedagogical grammar for learning another language." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488054.

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The main purpose of this research is to argue the case for" A Communicative Pedagogical Grammar" based on an educationally informed approach to language learning. As a reflection of the central nature of grammar in the process of communication, the literature of the 90s has begun to express the need for pedagogical grammar which reflects real language communication. It is believed that this need can be met by the adaptation of McEldowney's pedagogical grammar which she began to develop 25 years ago in relation to the learning of English. The hypothesis is that the nature of the grammatical description and methodology followed is central to the concept of teaching grammar communicatively. In other words, the pedagogical description should be discourse based and the methodology should reflect the role of grammar in real life communication. Therefore, this thesis is making the argument for McEldowney's approach to grammar learning and teaching on the basis that her framework integrates grammar and lexis in a piece of discourse. It also integrates learning tasks and these tasks are designed in such a way that they increase learners' awareness of the role of grammar in communication: i.e. grammar exists to enable us to mean. The thesis is divided into six chapters. Chapters One and Two outline the development of the main stream language learning grammars, syllabuses and methodologies under the central headings to be found in the literature - "structural", "situational", "functional" and "communicative If • Chapters Three to Six present McEldowney's "discourse-based" approach to language teaching and learning and argue for her communicative pedagogical grammar which sees grammar as a tool of communication which is integrated into pieces of discourse and taught through an integration of the language skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing. The main argument of these chapters is that the majority of syllabuses (structural, situational, functional, communicative) and the grammar books and coursebooks of the 90s still basically treat grammar in the same way as it is treated in a formal descriptive grammar. They do not on the whole consider authentic grammatical usage as a means of illustrating the normal communicative behaviour of linguistic form and the type of description they use leads to many learning problems of the sort that McEldowney's approach seeks to solve.

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Clendon, Mark. "Topics in Worora grammar." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc627.pdf.

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Bibliography: leaves 526-532. A description of the grammar of Worora, a language from the north west Kimberley region of Western Australia, proceeds along pedagogical lines. Introducing the speakers of Worora and their history and society, and the nature of the land in which they used to live, as well as to the manner and circumstances in which this account came to be written; describing in outline six important lexical categories, essential to a basic understanding of the grammar.

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Valenzuela, Pilar. "Transitivity in Shipibo-Konibo grammar /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095279.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 1009-1029). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Brown, Lea. "A grammar of Nias Selatan." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12669.

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Vallejos, Yopán Rosa 1971. "A grammar of Kokama-Kokamilla." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/11051.

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This dissertation is a comprehensive grammar of Kokama-Kokamilla (KK), as spoken by about 1000 elders in the Peruvian Amazon. It presents detailed documentation of the structures of the language and the functions they serve, with rich exemplification. This study is based on significant fieldwork since 1997, allowing the analysis to be grounded in text data. One of KK's most salient typological features is a morphological distinction between male and female speech in several grammatical categories. Major grammatical categories like person, number, tense, and modality are conveyed by positionally fixed clitics. Five tense clitics encode three degrees of distance into the past and two into the future. There are also six epistemic modal clitics, which interact to create a four-way modal system. None of the twelve suffixes is obligatory, but, in language use, as many as four can occur together on a single verb, followed by up to two clitics. Syntactically, KK has intransitive and transitive clauses, but semantically three-place predicates are syntactically encoded by means of transitive clauses. There are six directive constructions that distinguish degrees of pragmatic force. Another noteworthy point is the multiple types of purpose clause which differ in terms of coreference, controlled by the matrix clause absolutive argument rather than the subject. Clause nominalization is a central subordination strategy, particularly in relativization, which is largely achieved via an absolutive nominalizer. Pragmatically, KK has constructions that explicitly distinguish subtypes of focus according to scope (narrow/broad) and pragmatic information (contrastive/noncontrastive). This bears on theories about whether contrast simply emerges from conversational implicature, versus can be explicitly coded by dedicated grammar. Information structure also explains the distribution of alternating pronominal forms and constituent orders. Though long classified as Tupí-Guaraní, recent research claims that KK is the product of a contact language situation and hence has a mixed grammar. Although this claim seems accurate, this study shows the possible Tupí-Guaraní origin of a number of grammatical morphemes. What languages (and families) contributed to the rest of the mix remains to be determined. Thus, this comprehensive description is an important step in advancing comparative studies among the languages of the region.
Adviser: Spike Gildea, Chairperson; Committee members: Doris Payne; Scott DeLancey; Francisco Queixalos; Lawrence Sugiyama

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Hana, Jiri. "Czech clitics in higher order grammar." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1188232919.

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Petronio, Karen M. "Clause structure in American sign language /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8418.

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Phakkahn, Naiyapak. "Phonology and Grammar Sketch of Yoy." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10638626.

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Yoy is an endangered language of Thailand and Laos. The language belongs to the Tai-Kadai language family; however it has not yet been determined exactly which branch the language belongs to. Yoy has not been studied before and very limited resources are available regarding the classification of this language. The main objective of this thesis is to present a phonological description of Yoy by analyzing a set of 1,000 lexical items from selected speakers of the language. It also presents the grammar sketch which includes a description of word structure and syntactic structure of the language. The sketch structure of the grammar partially follows the outline of the language description from Grammar of Lao by Enfield.

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Majcher, Stephanie Amelia. "Becoming Sanskrit. A study of langauage and person in the Ṛgvedic Āraṇyakas." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15965.

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In recent years, the topic of Sanskrit’s cultural significance has become increasingly subject to discussion as its high visibility in the identity politics of the modern Indian nation has combined with a general questioning of philological methods to generate a demand for revised approaches to historiography and textual analysis. The resulting developments successfully demonstrate the potential of retrieving a wide diversity of previously unsought information from Sanskrit texts, utilising these findings to grapple with the identification of the language with closed models of cultural elitism, and thereby establish the foundation of a wider understanding of Sanskrit in historical context. What these developments do not address, however, is the matter of how the composition and reception of linguistic materials are influenced by culturally specific understandings of language that are not universally applicable across cultures, and may indeed be incompatible with those familiar to modern scholars and around which a number of leading hermeneutic approaches have been built. This work argues, firstly, that the parameters currently ascribed to Sanskrit – the justifications of its specialised status, the focus on structure and style in definitions of genre, the treatment of revelation as static and non-subjective – are markedly narrower than those demonstrated in Vedic texts, and as such obscure the possibility of alternative phenomenological, language-based and non-elite explanations for Sanskrit’s ongoing appeal in South Asian religious culture. Secondly, it contends that understandings of language, ancient and modern alike, implicate deeply embedded conceptions of the relationship between language and the human subject, particularly as relates to the formation and refinement of personal identity – a matter which draws revelation and embodiment together in the provision of a living context for self-transformation. These two considerations will be explored through a close examination of the Ṛgvedic Āraṇyakas, since they provide an exemplary instance of the way that familiar approaches to Sanskrit must be adapted in accordance with the demands of texts if we are to retrieve their internal integrity and thereby reach a deeper understanding of what it means to become saṃskṛta.

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Marfo, Charles Ofosu. "Aspects of Akan grammar and the phonology-syntax interface." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B32053563.

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Boro, Krishna. "A Grammar of Hakhun Tangsa." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22739.

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Hakhun Tangsa is one of around eighty ethnic and linguistic communities called Tangsa or Tangshang. Hakhuns live mostly in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and in Sagaing Division, Myanmar. The number of speakers is estimated at around ten thousand. Hakhun is a Tibeto-Burman language, and it forms a subgroup with Nocte, Wancho, Phom, Konyak, Chang, and Khiamngan called Konyak or Northern Naga. Hakhun is a tonal language with twenty-two consonants, six vowels, and a simple syllable structure. Open word classes include Nouns and Verbs; property concept terms form a subclass of verbs. Noun roots are mostly monosyllabic, and most multisyllabic nouns are compounds. Nominal morphology includes prossessive prefixes and a set of semantically specific suffixes. Case is coded by postpositions. Verb roots are also mostly monosyllabic. A few verbs have suppletive stems. Verb serialization is common, and expresses complex events like resultative and sequential. A few grammaticalized verbs/elements contribute abstract meanings like phase, associated motion, causative, benefactive, etc. Typical verbal categories are expressed by independent particles. The most extensive and grammatically obligatory set consists of single syllable particles called operators, which express verbal categories like tense, mood, deixis, negation, inverse, and argument indexation. The typical argument indexation pattern is hierarchical. Deviations from this pattern is used to express certain pragmatic effects like affectedness and politeness. Non-verbal clauses may take overt copulas depending on tense and polarity. Most semantic distinctions, such as equation, property-concepts, quantification, simulation, and location are expressed by the nominal strategy. Existential and possession are expressed by a distinct strategy. Typical verbal clauses include intransitive, transitive, and ditransitive; less typical ones include weather condition, sensation-emotion, reflexive, reciprocal, and ‘need’ constructions. Person-based split-ergativity is seen in case marking, where first and second person singular arguments follow accusative, and the rest ergative alignment. Accusative alignment is also found in argument indexation in non-final clauses. The object alignment is indirective in case marking. Complement clauses include sentence-like, non-finite, and infinitive complement clauses. Adverbial clauses include various kinds of temporal clauses, temporal/conditional clauses, counterfactual, concessive, purpose, and substitutive clauses. Clause chaining (medial-final) is prevalent. Independent sentences are linked through tail-head linking and through connectives.

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Scott, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann). "Natural Grammar: a Painless Way to Teach Grammar in the Secondary Language Arts Classroom." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501245/.

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Natural Grammar provides a way for the junior high or high school English teacher to draw upon students' "natural," or subconscious, knowledge of the systems and structures of spoken English. When such subconscious knowledge is conceptualized (brought to the conscious level), the students can transfer that knowledge to their writing. Natural grammar, in other words, allows the teacher to begin with what students already know, so that he or she may help students to build upon that knowledge in the context of the students' own writing. Chapters include a brief history of grammar instruction, a synopsis of the theories that contributed to the development of natural grammar, a description of natural grammar, and suggestions for implementation of natural grammar in the classroom.

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Kwan, Wing-man, and 關穎文. "The grammar and processing of Chinese coverb constructions." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45815963.

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Johnson, Edward. "Karajarri sketch grammar." Thesis, University of Sydney, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/277329.

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This thesis is a reference ( or sketch) grammar of Karajarri, an Australian Aboriginal language. As such, there is no attempt to be fully comprehensive at any point, but rather to provide a broad overview of the grammar of the language. I have chosen, however, to include in the study a more detailed analysis of one aspect of the language, namely the case-marking system (based on a framework developed by Dench and Evans 1988). This overview may be a basis for further research into particular aspects of the language. The reference grammar style of this study will also be of use in understanding the texts of Karajani which already exist from past work. The analysis is based on previous work done on Karajarri, as well as a period of field research in June 1992.

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Cardinal, Kumi. "An algebraic study of Japanese grammar /." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29419.

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I present an algebraic language model for Japanese within the framework of a type grammar. The analysis pays attention to both inflectional morphology and to syntax. The mathematics for checking the sentencehood of strings of words invokes a generalization of the notorious group concept.

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Mayhugh, Paul W. "A Chinese-English intermediate Greek grammar." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Thornes, Timothy Jon. "A Northern Paiute grammar with texts /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095278.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 549-559). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Wilcox, Karen Marie. "Defining grammar : a critical primer." Thesis, Montana State University, 2004. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2004/wilcox/WilcoxK04.pdf.

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Sinha, Rajeshwari Mishka. "A history of the transmission of Sanskrit in Britain and America, 1832-1939." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610357.

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Tuomas, Petra. "Teaching grammar: A study of the common English grammar errors and grammar teaching methods that can be relevant for Swedish upper secondary schools." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-19842.

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Grammar has always been an important part of language learning. Based on various theories, such as the universal grammar theory (Chomsky, 1959) and, the input theory (Krashen, 1970), the explicit and implicit teaching methods have been developed. Research shows that both methods may have some benefits and disadvantages. The attitude towards English grammar teaching methods in schools has also changed and nowadays grammar teaching methods and learning strategies, as a part of language mastery, are one of the discussion topics among linguists. This study focuses on teacher and learner experiences and beliefs about teaching English grammar and difficulties learners may face. The aim of the study is to conduct a literature review and to find out what scientific knowledge exists concerning the previously named topics. Along with this, the relevant steering documents are investigated focusing on grammar teaching at Swedish upper secondary schools. The universal grammar theory of Chomsky as well as Krashen’s input hypotheses provide the theoretical background for the current study. The study has been conducted applying qualitative and quantitative methods. The systematic search in four databases LIBRIS, ERIK, LLBA and Google Scholar were used for collecting relevant publications. The result shows that scientists’ publications name different grammar areas that are perceived as problematic for learners all over the world. The most common explanation of these difficulties is the influence of learner L1. Research presents teachers’ and learners’ beliefs to the benefits of grammar teaching methods. An effective combination of teaching methods needs to be done to fit learners’ expectations and individual needs. Together, they will contribute to the achieving of higher language proficiency levels and, therefore, they can be successfully applied at Swedish upper secondary schools.

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McClure, Ellah Sue. "Six middle school language arts teachers' beliefs about grammar and their teaching of grammar while participating In a professional learning community." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11122006-225340/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.
Title from title screen. Dana L. Fox, committee chair; Lori N. Elliott, Laurie B. Dias, Mary P. Deming, Marti Singer, committee members. Electronic text (201 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed July 11, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-194).

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Laubstein, Ann Stuart. "The nature of the production grammar syllable." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4620.

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Abbas, Abeer. "Selected Aspects of a Grammar of Farasani." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10751608.

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Farasani is the speech form originating from the small archipelago of coral islands in the Red Sea known as the Farasan Islands, belonging to the country of Saudi Arabia. Farasani is spoken by roughly 20,000 people. This study presents the beginnings of the first detailed documentary of Farasani includes a brief history of the islands, the sociolinguistic factors affecting the Farasani speaking community, the phonological system, and the morphosyntactic patterns.

The first portion of this research study introduces a concise description of the Farasani people and history of the islands in regards to its occupation by the Ottoman Empire and contact with Yemen and other countries. It also touches upon the stigmas held by those of other Arabic speakers on the mainland of Saudi Arabia and the current perception of the younger generation of Farasani speakers who largely undervalue their dialect. The second portion of this study incorporates a detailed description of Farasani phonology collected from data from native speakers, including detailing the allowable syllable structures, consonant clusters, and sonority sequencing in Farasani. Finally, this study provides a description of selected aspects of Farasani morphosyntax, including a discussion of major word classes, morphological typology, selected verb phrase operations, word order, the alignment system, and multi-clause constructions.

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Kawasha, Boniface Kaumba. "Lunda grammar : a morphosyntactic and semantic analysis /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095256.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 453-461). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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