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This page contains a (hopefully) complete list of all theses submitted as part of the Master's program in linguistics at the University of North Dakota. Most, if not all, of them are on file at the UND library. Further information may be obtained about them through the library's online catalog (ODIN).

For an alphabetical list by author of theses for which abstracts are available, see the separate page.

Year	Author	Title of Thesis
2012	Julia Ciupek-Reed	Participatory methods in sociolinguistic sign language survey: A case study in El Salvador [abstract]
2012	Kerry Mae Corbett	Forecasting the vitality of the Fur language: A study in language use patterns and attitudes in Darfur [abstract]
2012	Christina Scotte Hornéy	A phonological analysis of Mro Khimi [abstract]
2012	Catherine MacLeod	Reference in Udi narrative discourse [abstract]
2012	Kevin Sparks	Persuasion and manipulation: Relevance across multiple audiences [abstract]
2011	Won Ho Kim	Thematic Groupings in Magpie Miao narrative [abstract]
2011	Jason Parks	Sign language word list comparisons: Toward a replicable coding and scoring methodology [abstract]
2011	Stuart M. Thiessen	A grammar of SignWriting [abstract]
2011	Brendon E. Yoder	Phonological and phonetic aspects of Enganno vowels [abstract]
2010	David Cross	Word Order typology in modern South Arabian languages: A study based on a corpus of analyzed texts [abstract]
2010	Gretta M. Owen	Berne, Indiana Swiss German: Lessons learned from a small-Scale documentation project [abstract]
2010	April Sachs	Motion events in Seri: Applying Talmy's typologies [abstract]
2010	Jessica Smith	Placing İsmayilli Lezgi among the Lezgi dialects [abstract]
2010	Isaac Souza	A phonological description of “Pet Talk” in Arara [abstract]
2010	Shirley Souza	The morphology of nouns in the Ugoroŋmo language (Arara of Pará) [abstract]
2009	Janessa L. Brown	A brief sketch of Urama grammar with special consideration of particles marking agency, aspect, and modality [abstract]
2009	Jacob M. Hall	Palembangese in print: An NLS look at literacies, linguacies, communicacies, and culturacies in South Sumatra [abstract]
2009	Holly A. Leslie	A study in the design and impact of an oral/aural bridge component in second language literacy [abstract]
2009	Bettina Revilla	Place names in Israeli Sign Language [abstract]
2008	Arthur J. Aviles	The phonology and morphology of Dar Daju Daju [abstract]
2008	Kara S. Fast	Subordination, grounding and the packaging of information in Gojri [abstract]
2008	Bradley D. Festen	Verbal tone in Mpyemo [abstract]
2008	Karen L. Gainer	Constituent order and participant reference in Dolna Hani narrative discourse [abstract]
2008	Henry J. Hauser	Biliteracy and skills transfer: Literacy skills transfer from Arabic to English focusing on lexical access [abstract]
2008	Anita J. Leander	Acoustic correlates of fortis/lenis in San Francisco Ozolotepec Zapotec [abstract]
2008	Dustin D. Miller	Production of Bangla stops by native English speakers learning Bangla: An acoustic analysis [abstract]
2007	Barbara Hauser	Grice's conversational implicature revisited: A discourse analysis of reproductive loss in women's talk
2007	Joëlle C. Lewis	The -ing suffix in French [abstract]
2007	Rebecca D. Smith	The noun class system of Ut-Ma'in, a West Kainji language of Nigeria [abstract]
2006	Ruth A. Aldrich	Parents' perceptions of children's attitude of the heritage language through intergenerational reading in the L1 [abstract]
2006	Elke Karan	Writing system development and reform: A process [abstract]
2006	Virginia C. Phillips	Hindi to and relevance
2005	Gayle H. Aasen	Use of Low German by the Mennonites of Manitoba and dialect differences between the East and West Reserves [abstract]
2005	Renae L. Caneday	Interlanguage coda production of Hmong second language learners of English [abstract]
2004	John J. Berthelette	Information structure in narrative texts in Byali (a Gur language of Benin) [abstract]
2003	Aliya S. Kuzhabekova	Past, present, and future of language policy in Kazakhstan [abstract]
2003	Edward C. Quigley	Awara Phonology [abstract]
2003	Calvin F. Tiessen	Positive orientation towards the vernacular among the Talysh of Sumgayit [abstract]
2002	Wendy J. Aalgaard	Communicating and interpreting the Vietnam experience: Participant roles in sociolinguistic interviews with local Vietnam veterans
2002	Dan T. Friesen	Oroko orthography development: Linguistic and sociolinguistic factors [abstract]
2002	Lisa Friesen	Valence change and Oroko verb morphology (Mbonge dialect) [abstract]
2002	Bela Hettich	Ossetian: Revisiting inflectional morphology [abstract]
2002	Wayne E. Losey	Writing Gojri: Linguistic and sociolinguistic constraints on a standardized orthography for the Gujars of South Asia [abstract]
2002	Susan R. Quigley	The Awara verbal system [abstract]
2001	Lars Dyrud	Hindi-Urdu: Stress accent or non-stress accent? [abstract]
2001	Inga McKendry	Two studies of Mixtec languages [abstract]
2001	Emma Pavey	Information structure in Acadian French [abstract]
2001	Elena Rodionova	Word order and information structure in Russian syntax [abstract]
1999	Heather Walker	Student participation in the academic discourse community: An ESL student working independently and ESL students working with writing tutors [abstract]
1997	Stan J. Anonby	Reversing language shift: Can Kwak'wala be revived? [abstract]
1997	Kang Yuen Ma	The relation between the writing system and the use of metaphor in English andChinese [abstract]
1996	Chia-jung Fan	A comparative study of the sounds of Kuo-Yu and Taiwanese
1995	Lawrence Burke	An introduction to the verbal system of Central Dangaleat
1995	Larry Williams	Noun classification or spatial categorization: Damana orientation verbs
1994	Shawn Boylan	Aspect in Mende
1994	Jakob Heckert	Discourse function of conjoiners in the Pastoral Epistles
1994	Marilyn Plumlee	Who's speaking whose language? A study of contact signing between deaf and hearing co-workers
1994	Benjamin Unseth	Relative clauses in southern Uzbek
1993	Ronald Hesse	Imyan Tehit phonology
1993	William Kauffman	The great tone split and central Karen
1993	Richard Thiele	Interrogatives in Yanomam
1993	Cindy Williams	A grammar sketch of Damana
1992	Daniel Olson	A comparison of thematic paragraph analysis and vocabulary management profiles for an oral corpus
1992	John Paul Thomas	A morphophonology of Komo: Non-tonal phenomena
1992	Kristine Waskosky	Affixes of Salasaca Quichua with special attention to derivational affixes which attach to verbs
1991	Gray Plunkett	The tone system of Foodo nouns
1990	William Gardner	Language use in the Epena district of northern Congo
1990	Daniel Hintz	Distinctives of Corongo Quechua: Historical and synchronic perspectives
1990	Thomas Pinson	Dakota Sioux objects
1990	Sheldon Waskosky	The phonology of Salasaca Quichua
1990	Stephen Willson	Verb agreement and case marking in Burushaski
1989	Anita Bickford	Data base design for research in comparative Zapotec
1989	Peter Constable	Basic clause structure in Veracruz Huastec
1989	Martin Culy	Relative clauses in Koine Greek: A transformational approach
1989	Carol Wildeman	The Michif technique: Code-switch cue
1988	Terry Carlson	Phonological processes and syllable structure in Tainae
1988	Edward Kotynski	Tabaru phonology and morphology
1988	Pamela Wright	Madija predicates
1986	Diane Ferrara	A linguistic analysis of the letters of Margery Brews Paston
1985	Benjamin Orr	A study of verbal complement clauses in central Alaskan Yup'ik
1984	Janet Camburn	A relational grammar approach to Kera syntax
1984	Sue Glidden	The Koh verbal system
1984	James Kapper	Red Lake Falls, Minnesota: A sociolinguistic survey
1984	Larry Lovell	The structure of reflexive clauses in Michif: A relational grammar approach
1983	Mark Karan	An experiment in computer assisted literature adaptation
1983	Breck Speers	Discourse analysis of a Michif narrative
1983	Mary Margaret Walker	Argumentation in Romans 1-11
1982	Deborah Weaver	Obviation in Michif
1981	Mary Peske	The French of the French Cree (Michif) language
1981	Peter Unseth	The structure and rhetorical effect of seven questions in Koine Greek
1981	Elizabeth Willett	Word-shortening in Southeastern Tepehuan
1981	Thomas Willett	Marking grammatical relations in Southeastern Tepehuan
1980	Terrell Malone	The double accusative in Koine Greek: A syntactic study
1980	Peter Westrum	A grammatical sketch of Berik
1979	Ruth Tipton	Nembi discourse structure
1978	Alan Buseman	A system for computerized reversal of bilingual dictionaries
1978	Charles Speck	The phonology of Texmelucan Zapotec verb irregularity
1977	Donna Gardiner	Embedded questions in Southern Tiwa
1976	Marit Kana	The design and evaluation of a course in conversational Indonesian
1976	Charles Keller	A grammatical sketch of Brao, a Mon-Khmer language
1976	Sally Keller	English-Khmer medical dictionary
1976	Stephen Marlett	Copy-raising in Koine Greek
1976	Vera Miller	An overview of Stieng grammar
1976	Thomas Phinnemore	Ono phonology and morphophonemics
1976	Michael Scott	Syntactic combinations of verbs in Lakota Sioux (Teton Dakota)
1975	Kornelis Boot	On the Dutch expletive and related syntactic problems
1975	Robert Larsen	Difference coefficients for determining dialect relatedness
1974	James Ashworth	A simple text-oriented morph data base system for field linguists
1974	Wolfgang Corduan	Subordinating and coordinating particles in Lakhota
1974	Lyle Knudson	A natural phonology and morphophonemics of Chimalapa Zoque
1972	Frances Bates	Lakota language lessons
1972	Steven Egland	A method for surveying literacy in minority languages in Mexico
1971	Bette Boteler	The relationship between conceptual outlooks and the linguistic description of disease and its treatment among the Chippewa and/or Cree Indians of the Turtle Mountain reservation
1970	Beatrice Myers	Towa phrase structure
1968	Chadwick Stendal	Structure of the Kogi verb auxiliary and its distribution in discourse
1967	Susie Andres	The comparative construction in Orenburger Low German
1967	Mary Blaskowsky	A series for time, place, manner, and quantity expressions in Hindi
1967	Eugenia Johnston	Some psycholinguistic aspects of Brou literacy problems
1967	Kenneth Smith	Sedang dialects
1967	Dorothy Thomas	A phonological reconstruction of Proto-East Katuic
1966	Carolyn Miller	Structural ambiguity within the Vietnamese relative clause
1963	George Cowan	Some aspects of the lexical structure of a Mazatec historical text
1959	Donald Stark	Clause and sentence boundary markers in the Dakota language

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