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Spring 2022
This dissertation presents a description of the morphology and phonology of Zihuateutla Totonac (ZT), a member of the Northern branch of the Totonacan (Totonac-Tepehua) language family. Zihuateutla Totonac is spoken by about 1,100 people in northern Puebla State, Mexico. Previous to this study,...
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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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Syntactic Features and Text Types in 20th Century Plains Cree: A Constraint Grammar Approach
DownloadSpring 2023
This dissertation describes the creation of a morphosyntactically tagged corpus of Plains Cree (nêhiyawêwin), an Indigenous language of North America, and demonstrates three ways in which this corpus can be used to explore morphosyntactic variation in the language on a larger scale than...