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Haynie, Hannah Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation uses quantitative and geographic analysis techniques to examine the historical and geographical processes that have shaped California's linguistic diversity. Many questions in California historical linguistics have received diminishing attention in recent years, remaining unanswered despite their continued relevance. The studies…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Research, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
Escamilla, Ramon Matthew, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Taking up analytical issues raised primarily in Dixon (2000) and Dixon & Aikhenvald (2000), this dissertation combines descriptive work with a medium-sized (50-language) typological study. Chapter 1 situates the dissertation against a concise survey of typological-functional work on causative constructions from the last few decades, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Semantics, Language Classification, American Indian Languages