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Author:: Roggia, Aaron B.
Title:: Unaccusativity and Word Order in Mexican Spanish: An Examination of Syntactic Interfaces and the Split Intransitivity Hierarchy
Graduate Program:: Spanish
Keywords:: Syntax-discourse Interface
Unaccusativity
Split-Intransitivity
Word Order
Spanish
Mexican Spanish
Syntax-lexicon Interface
Focus
File:: Download ROGGIA_2011_DISSERTATION.pdf
Committee Members:: John Lipski, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Lipski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Member
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Marie Gillette Speicher, Committee Member
Barbara E Bullock, Committee Member

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Author:: Scaltz, Tracy Cramer
Title:: Verb Frequency Effects and Mood Preference: Implications for the L2 Teaching and Learning of Negated Matrix Verbs of Belief
Graduate Program:: Spanish
Keywords:: verb frequency
mood preference
socio-pragmatic intention
pedagogy
subjunctive/indicative
negated matrix verbs of belief
File:: Download Scaltz_Dissertation_Submitted_2013.pdf
Committee Members:: Paola Eulalia Dussias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Member
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Karen Lynn Miller, Committee Member
Maria Rosa Truglio, Committee Member

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Author:: Dietrich, Amelia Jane
Title:: The Role of Probabilistic Cues in L2 Processing: Verb bias in Spanish and English
Graduate Program:: Spanish
Keywords:: sentence processing
bilingualism
corpus linguistics
verb bias
psycholinguistics
Spanish
File:: Download DISSERTATION_-_FINAL_VERSION.pdf
Committee Members:: Paola Eulalia Dussias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Member
John Lipski, Committee Member
Karen Lynn Miller, Committee Member

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Author:: Vosburg, Nora
Title:: The syntax and semantics of periphrastic do in Kansas Plautdietsch
Graduate Program:: German
Keywords:: Plautdietsch
do-periphrasis
Mennonites
sociolinguistics
syntax
variation
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Committee Members:: Michael Travis Putnam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Richard Page, Jr., Committee Member
John Lipski, Outside Member
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Outside Member
Joseph C. Salmons, Special Member
Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Program Head/Chair

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