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M.A. Theses in Linguistics at the University of North Dakota: Complete List


This page contains a list of 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 on this website, see the separate page.

Year Author Title of Thesis
2018 Laura J. Cline Some features of participant reference in Xochapa Mixtec [abstract]
2018 Katelin French Reference tracking in Ethiopian Sign Language [abstract]
2018 Beth C. Gray The impact of translation on constructed action and constructed dialogue in ASL texts [abstract]
2018 Megan Lois Mong Modest dress as literacy practice in English-speaking conservative Mennonite groups [abstract]
2018 Daniel Tignor A phonology of Hill (Kone-Tu) Asho [abstract]
2017 Roman Caceres Lexical categories in Lengua de Señas Argentina [abstract]
2017 Tamara M. Grosso Referring forms and cognitive status in non-narrative American Sign Language texts [abstract]
2017 Amy Havlicek Alternations in Murui: A morphological approach [abstract]
2017 Esteban I. Méndez-Hord Tone in Acatlán Mixtec nouns [abstract]
2017 Erin Padgett Tools for assessing relatedness in understudied language varieties: A survey of Mixtec varieties in western Oaxaca, Mexico [abstract]
2017 Jessica Sohre Structural narratology in Romanian Sign Language personal experience narratives [abstract]
2016 Douglas C. Laskowske Voice in Bugis: An RRG perspective [abstract]
2016 Julia Martin An acoustic study of Kope, Northeast Kiwai, Papua New Guinea, with preliminary tonal analysis [abstract]
2015 Scott Belden Spectrums, subgroups and school-lunch: The linguistic capital of students with autism [abstract]
2015 Bethany Winter Carlson Case and pragmatic status markers in Embera Katío [abstract]
2015 Benjamin J. Cavaletto Computer-assisted vocabulary learning for Deaf learners of foreign sign languages [abstract]
2015 Katja S. Mueller Deixis in Shughni: Grammatical and semantic considerations [abstract]
2015 Hannah Reeves Falam immigrants in America: Motivations for language use, maintenance, and shift [abstract]
2014 Dennis W. Coyle Placing Wardak among Pashto varieties [abstract]
2014 Heidi A. Davis Consonant correspondences of Burmese, Rakhine and Marma with initial implications for historical relationships [abstract]
2014 Jeremy Hawbaker The pronominal clitics of Logar Ormuri [abstract]
2014 Larissa M. Jordan Verbal fluency: Norms for the Lakota population in semantic and phonemic fluency tasks [abstract]
2014 Deborah Kim Subordination in Sarikoli [abstract]
2014 Beate Lubberger A description and analysis of four metarepresentation markers of Indus Kohistani [abstract]
2014 Justin Power Handshapes in Afghan Sign Language [abstract]
2014 Amy Roe The phonetics and phonology of Bora tone [abstract]
2013 Kevin Cline The tone system of Acatepec Me'paa [abstract]
2013 Daniel Eberle Resemblance-oriented communication strategies: Understanding the role of resemblance in signed and spoken languages [abstract]
2013 Sarah Eberle Locative expressions in signed languages: A cross-linguistic comparison [abstract]
2013 Kelli Finney Many voices, many selves: An analysis of education blog discourses [abstract]
2013 Trafton Hardison A structured PC-PATR grammar editor and application to Bahasa Indonesia [abstract]
2013 Jason Hopkins Toward a further understanding of the extensibility of sign languages [abstract]
2013 William Jancewicz Grammar enriched biliteracy: Naskapi language structures for facilitating reading in Naskapi [abstract]
2013 Stephen Jones Classifier constructions as procedural signs in American Sign Language [abstract]
2013 Vanessa Jones Numeral incorporation in American Sign Language [abstract]
2013 Jennifer Keogh A survey of those in the U.S. Deaf community about reading and writing ASL [abstract]
2013 JoEllen Magnus ELL vocabulary acquisition: How improvement measurements are affected by text type, English reading ability, and assessment methods [abstract]
2013 Mark Penner The mouthing of verbs in Japanese Sign Language [abstract]
2012 Chris Adams Six discourse markers in Tunisian Arabic: A syntactic and pragmatic analysis [abstract]
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 Gisella Greenfield The acoustic qualities of Embera Katío stops [abstract]
2012 Christina Scotte Hornéy A phonological analysis of Mro Khimi [abstract]
2012 Catherine MacLeod Reference in Udi narrative discourse [abstract]
2012 Davis Prickett The phonology and morphology of verb forms in Mubi [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 [abstract]
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 [abstract]
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 [abstract]
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 [abstract]
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 L. Gardner Language use in the Epena district of northern Congo [abstract]
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
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
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 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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