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Exploring between the lines: the role of texts and interlinear representation in the description of Coahuitlán Totonac
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Recording and transcribing textual material is a critical part of documentary and descriptive linguistics. The advantages of text collection in minority language communities are recognised to extend beyond linguistics and texts offer a valuable record of the community’s oral history. Although...
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Juncture epenthesis in Filomeno Mata Totonac: prosodic constraints and syntactic conditions
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This thesis describes and analyzes the occurrence of juncture epentheses at word boundaries in Filomeno Mata Totonac. In this language, when two consonants come together at a word boundary, a vowel is often inserted; and when a vowel and an oral stop come together at a word boundary, there is...
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Language attitudes and opportunities for speaking a minority language: what lies ahead for Ozelonacaxtla Totonac?
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The present research describes the sociolinguistic situation in the minority indigenous community of San Juan Ozelonacaxtla in the state of Puebla, Mexico. Both Ozelonacaxtla Totonac and Spanish are spoken in the speech community. However, some bilingual parents use only Spanish in the home,...
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Language ideologies and the linguistic ecology of Huehuetla Totonac: Reconceptualizing language vitality
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This dissertation examines language ideologies and the linguistic ecology in the community of Huehuetla, Puebla, Mexico, where Huehuetla Totonac is spoken. I examine how language ideologies (beliefs about language) and characteristics of the linguistic ecology (context) are related to the...
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Spring 2019
The maintenance of multiple systems of nominal classification is typologically uncommon, as is the transfer of noun class systems in language contact situations (Corbett 1991; Good 2012). Michif (ISO 639-3: crg), a critically endangered language spoken by members of the Métis Nation on the...
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Spring 2019
Research on Mixtec languages (Otomanguean, Mexico), has long recognized a bimoraic/bisyllabic “couplet” as an essential structure for the description of the phonology and morphology (e.g. Pike 1948; Josserand 1983); however, what exactly this structure is in terms of the structure of the word, as...
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Spring 2021
Traditionally, the term “middle” refers to a semantically driven concept that is often linked to the term “voice” in descriptive and theoretical grammars. This thesis rigorously examines the status of the Somali middle suffix -at as voice by applying the concept of voice proposed in Mel’čuk...