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1 | Nash, Alexander | The Proto-Indo-European urheimat: The Armenian hypothesis | This thesis analyzes the viability of the Armenian Hypothesis, which places the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Armenian Highland (Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1990, Kavoukjian 1987). Arguments supporting the hypothesis are evaluated in the light of linguistic, archeological, and genetic evidence. Afte... | Proto-Indo-European langauge; Armenian Highlands | 2015-12 | |
2 | Ng, Sara Blalock | Musical Text-Setting as Evidence for syliabification of Highly Moraic Structures in English | In the standard generative perspective, English is a mora-sensitive language, permitting syllables with one or two moras (or in some perspectives, strictly two). However, structures are readily available in the lexicon which seem to have three moras in a single syllable. Lavoie and Cohn 1999 argue t... | |||
3 | Manwill, Savannah | The sociolinguistics of Basque in the U.S. | This thesis examines the history of the Basques (both in Europe and the United States), the ethnolinguistic vitality of Basque in the U.S. (including the role of language and language revitalization efforts), and some linguistic features of Basque today. It makes use of various articles, studies, an... | Basque language - Social aspects - United States; Sociolinguistics - United States | 2013-05 |