Dissertations | University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Department of Linguistics

Pre-Defense Dissertation Drafts

A PDF version of your dissertation must be submitted to the department office at least two weeks from the defense. The title page should contain a clear indication that this is a ‘pre-defense draft.’

Note: This replaces the old requirement that a copy of the dissertation must be placed in the reading room.

Surma, Ashleigh (November 7, 2022 – 9:00 AM (HST)); https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/91293720333?pwd=TytmVjlBM0trRi9DMk1ObEVjR25KZz09 (Meeting ID: 912 9372 0333; Passcode: 618055) – Reciprocity and Language Work: Considering the Role of the Outsider Linguist

Final Dissertations

A PDF version of the final approved version of the dissertation must be submitted to the department office. (This replaces the old requirement that the department has to receive a hard copy of the dissertation.)

This list contains recent dissertations. Older dissertations are available in ScholarSpace, the UH Institutional Repository.

Aragon, Carolina (2014) A Grammar of Akuntsú, A Tupían Language (PDF)

Baetscher, Kevin (2022) Predicate Initiality in Space and Time (PDF)

Baker, C.M. Kaliko (2012) A-Class Genitive Subject Effect: A Pragmatic and Discourse Grammar Approach to A- and O- Class Genitive Subject Selection in Hawaiian (PDF)

Barlow, Russell (2018) A Grammar of Ulwa (PDF)

Belew, Anna (2020) Sociolinguistic Documentation of Language Shift and Maintenance in Iyasa (PDF)

Bloyd, Tobias (2020) Sula: Its Language, Land, and People (PDF)

Bondoc, Ivan (2020) Probabilistic and Predictive Parsing in Tagalog Voice Alternations (PDF)

Brockway, Catherine (2021) Building High-frequency Word Lists for the Semantic Domain of ʻĀINA (‘land’) Using a Raw Corpus of Spoken ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (PDF)

Chacon, Thiago (2012) The Phonology and Morphology of Kubeo: The Documentation, Theory, and Description of an Amazonian Language (PDF)

Chen, Victoria {Yen-hsin} (2017) A Reexamination of the Philippine-Type Voice System and its Implications for Austronesian Primary-Level Subgrouping (PDF)

Chen, Yen-ling (2018) Proto-Ong-Be (PDF)

Choe, Jinsun (2012) Children Seem to Know Raising: Raising and Intervention in Child Language (PDF)

Chong, Peter (2019) The Effect of Talker Nativeness on the Perception of Voicing in Syllable-Initial Plosives (PDF)

Clark, Brenda (2017) A Grammatical Sketch of Sivia Sign Language (PDF)

Dennison, Heeyeon Yoon (2010) Processing Implied Meaning Through Contrastive Prosody (PDF)

Elliott, John (2021) A Grammar of Enxet Sur (PDF)

Ellis, Jim (2012) Saipan Carolinian, One Chuukic Language Blended from Many (PDF)

Enyo, Yumiko (2013) Exploring Senpai-Koohai Relationaships in Club Meetings in a Japanese University (PDF)

Estioca, Sharon (2020) A Grammar of Western Subanon (PDF)

Furukawa, Toshiaki (2011) Humor-ing the Local: Multivocal Performance in Stand-Up Comedy in Hawai’i (PDF)

Gao, Katie (2017) Dynamics of Language Contact in China: Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Variation in Yunnan (PDF)

Glenn, Akiemi (2002) Wayfinding in Pacific Linguascapes: Negotiating Tokelau Linguistic Identities in Hawai’i (PDF)

Grama, James (2015) Variation and Change in Hawai’i Creole Vowels (PDF)

Guerin, Valerie (2008) Discovering Mavea: Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon

Hafford, James (2015) Wuvulu Grammar and Vocabulary (PDF)

Hara, Yukie (2014) Sentence Comprehension of Event Structure in English and Japanese: An Evaluation of the Interaction between Grammatical Aspect and Lexical Aspect (PDF)

Hardeman, Kate (2013) Gender and Second Language Style: American Learners Perceptions and use of Mandarin Sajiao (PDF)

Hatfield, Hunter (2010) Temporal Expectancy and the Experience of Statistics in Language Processing (PDF)

Hattori, Ryoko (2012) Preverbal Particles in Pingelapese: A Language of Micronesia (PDF)

Hauk, Bryn (2020) Deixis and Reference Tracing in Tsova-Tush (PDF)

Heaton, Raina (2017) A Typology of Antipassives, with Special Reference to Mayan (PDF)

Helgeson, Kirsten (2022) Geographic, Cultural, and Ecological Correlations with Indigenous Language Vitality in North America (PDF)

Henke, Ryan (2020) The First Language Acquisition of Nominal Inflection in Northern East Cree: Possessives and Nouns (PDF)

Heston, Tyler (2015) The Segmental and Suprasegmental Phonology of Fataluku (PDF)

Hooshiar, Kavon (2023) Facilitating language documentation through incremental development of digital archive infrastructure

Huang, Karen (2012) A Study of Neutral-Tone Syllables in Taiwan Mandarin (PDF)

Iannucci, David (2019) – The Hachijō Language of Japan: Phonology and Historical Development (PDF)

Ilic, Tatjana (2013) Modality and Causation in Serbian Dative Anticausatives: A Crosslinguistic Perspective (PDF)

Indjieva, Elena (2009) Oirat Tones and Break Indices (O-ToBI) Intonational Structure of the Oirat Language

Jackson, Jason (2014) A Grammar of Irarutu, A Language of West Papua, Indonesian, with Historical Analysis

Jackson, Kyuseek Hwang (2008) The Effect of Information Structure on Korean Scrambling

Joo, Kum Jeong (2014) Children’s Interpretation of the Korean Reflexive Pronouns Caki and Caki-Casin (PDF)

Kang, Sang Gu (2011) English Attrition in Korean-english Bilingual Children (PDF)

Kettig, Thomas (2021) HAʻINA ʻIA MAI ANA KA PUANA: THE VOWELS OF ʻŌLELO HAWAIʻI (PDF)

Khairunnisa (2022) Diathesis, Grammatical Relations, and Clitics in Ampenan Sasak (PDF)

Kim, Chae-Eun (2013) Asymmetries in the Production of Relative Clauses: First and Second Language Acquisition (PDF)

Kim, Jinsook (2012) Comprehension of Elided Phrases in Korean and English: VP-Ellipsis, Null Object Constructions, and One-Subtitution (PDF)

Kim, Jonny (2018) Socially-conditioned links between words and phonetic realizations (PDF)

Kim, Soyoung (2011) Focus Particles at Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Interfaces: The Acquisition of Only and Even in English (PDF)

Kirtley, M. Joelle (2015) Language, Identity, and Non-Binary Gender in Hawai’i (PDF)

Ko, Insung (2013) The Articulation of Korean Koronal Obstruents: Data from Heritage Speakers and Second Language Learners (PDF)

Kuo, Jonathan Cheng-Chuen (2015) Argument Alternation and Argument Structure in Symmetrical Voice Languages: A Case Study of Transfer Verbs in Amis, Puyuma, and Seediq (PDF)

Kupchik, John (2011) A Grammar of Eastern Old Japanese Dialects (PDF)

Kwak, Hye-Young (2010) Scope Interpretation in First and Second Language Acquisition: Numeral Quantifiers and Negation (PDF)

Lau, Elaine (2016) Acquisition of Relative Clauses in Cantonese: A Multi-Factorial Analysis (PDF)

Lee, Nala Huiying (2014) A Grammar of Baba Malay with Sociophonetic Considerations (PDF)

Lee, On-Soon (2014) Individual Differences in First and Second Language Sentence Processing: Evidence from Statistical Learning

Lee, Sunyoung (2009) Interpreting Scope Ambiguity in First and Second Language Processing: Universal Quantifiers and Negation

Liu, Nian (2012) The Effect of Naming Systems on the Acquisition of and Reasoning about Time Concepts (PDF)

Liu, Tsai-Hsiu (Dorinda). (2011) Complementation in Three Formosan Languages – Amis, Mayrinax Atayal and Tsou (PDF)

Lobel, Jason (2013) Philippine and North Bornean Languages: Issues in Description, Subgrouping, and Reconstruction (PDF)

Miyakoshi, Tomoko (2009) Investigating ESL Learners’ Lexical Collocations: The Acquisition of Verb and Noun Collocations by Japanese Learners of English

Mortensen, Christian (2021) The Kemaloh Lun Bawang Language of Borneo (PDF)

Muagututi’a, Grant (2018) Recovering Ergativity in Heritage Samoan (PDF)

Nomura, Jun (2008) Japanese Postposing: The Role of Early Discourse Pragmatics

Noschese, Emily Jo (2021) – Younger Deaf People’s Attitudes Toward American Sign Language Structure (PDF)

O’Brien, Colleen (2018) A Grammatical Description of Kamsá, A Language Isolate of Colombia (PDF)

Odango, Emerson Lopez. (2015) Afféú fangani ‘join together’: A morphophonemic analysis of possessive suffix paradigms and a discourse-based ethnography of the elicitation session in Pakin Lukunosh Mortlockese (PDF)

Oiwa-Bungard, Mayumi (2017) Morphology and syntax of gerunds in Truku Seediq: A third function of Austronesian “voice” morphology (PDF)

Okura, Eve (2017) Language Nests and Language Acquisition: An Empirical Analysis (PDF)

Pappas, Leah (2022) A Multi-Modal Study of Spatial Language in Hawu in Typological Perspective (PDF)

Pick, Andrew (2020) A Reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert Phonology & Lexicon (PDF)

Polley, Carl (2012) Metaphors for Happiness in English and Mandarin Chinese

Ransdell-Green, Margaret (2022) Kala Phonology in a Typological and Regional Context (PDF)