Fieldwork and Language Documentation

A Kashaya grammar (Southwestern Pomo)

Robert Oswalt
1961

Advisor: Mary R. Haas

Maidu grammar

William Shipley
1959

Advisor: Mary R. Haas

The Klamath language

Phillip Barker
1959

Advisor: Mary R. Haas

New World Mennonite Low German: An Investigating of Changes in Progress

Roslyn C. Burns
2016

Adivsor: Gary Holland

A Bayesian Phylogenetic Classification of Tupí-Guaraní

Lev Michael
Natalia Chousou-Polydouri
Keith Bartolomei
Erin Donnelly
Vivian Wauters
Sérgio Meira
Zachary O'Hagan
2015

This paper presents an internal classification of Tupí-Guaraní based on lexical data from 30 Tupí-Guaraní languages and 2 non-Tupí-Guaraní Tupian languages, Awetí and Mawé. A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis using a generalized binary cognate gain and loss model was carried out on a character table based on the binary coding of cognate sets, which were formed with attention to semantic shift. The classification shows greater internal structure than previous ones, but is congruent with them in several ways.

Constructional Polysemy and Mental Spaces in Potawatomi Discourse

Laura Buszard-Welcher
2003

Advisor: Richard Rhodes

Linguistic Purism, Language Shift, and Contact-Induced Change in Tatar

Suzanne Wertheim
2003

Advisor: Leanne Hinton

Yowlumne in the Twentieth Century

William F. Weigel
2005

Advisor: Leanne Hinton

Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) Phonology and Morphology

Gabriela Caballero
2008

Advisor: Andrew Garrett

Contrastive and non-contrastive pre-stopping in Kaytetye

Mark Harvey
Susan Lin
Ben Davies
Katherine Demuth
2015

Kaytetye is one of the few Australian languages for which pre-stopping is contrastive for nasals. This paper provides the first quantitative data on the phonetic realization of contrastive pre-stopping for any Australian language. It also provides data on the hitherto unreported non-contrastive pre-stopping of laterals in Kaytetye. The findings demonstrate that contrastive nasal pre-stopping and non-contrastive lateral pre-stopping differ on three parameters: (a) the conditioning on the distribution of plain vs. pre-stopped realizations; (b) the comparative overall durations of pre-...