Theses in Linguistics: Complete List
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).
Abstracts for a few recent theses, and in some cases the entire thesis, are available on a separate page.
| Year | Author | Title of Thesis |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Donald Stark | Clause and sentence boundary markers in the Dakota language |
| 1963 | George Cowan | Some aspects of the lexical structure of a Mazatec historical text |
| 1966 | Carolyn Miller | Structural ambiguity within the Vietnamese relative clause |
| 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 |
| 1968 | Chadwick Stendal | Structure of the Kogi verb auxiliary and its distribution in discourse |
| 1970 | Beatrice Myers | Towa phrase structure |
| 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 |
| 1972 | Frances Bates | Lakota language lessons |
| 1972 | Steven Egland | A method for surveying literacy in minority languages in Mexico |
| 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 Knudsen | A natural phonology and morphophonemics of Chimalapa Zoque |
| 1975 | Robert Larsen | Difference coefficients for determining dialect relatedness |
| 1975 | Kornelis Boot | On the Dutch expletive and related syntactic problems |
| 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) |
| 1977 | Donna Gardiner | Embedded questions in Southern Tiwa |
| 1978 | Alan Buseman | A system for computerized reversal of bilingual dictionaries |
| 1978 | Charles Speck | The phonology of Texmelucan Zapotec verb irregularity |
| 1979 | Ruth Tipton | Nembi discourse structure |
| 1980 | Peter Westrum | A grammatical sketch of Berik |
| 1980 | Terrell Malone | The double accusative in Koine Greek: a syntactic study |
| 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 |
| 1981 | Mary Peske | The French of the French Cree (Michif) language |
| 1982 | Deborah Weaver | Obviation in Michif |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1985 | Benjamin Orr | A study of verbal complement clauses in central Alaskan Yup'ik |
| 1986 | Diane Ferrara | A linguistic analysis of the letters of Margery Brews Paston |
| 1988 | Terry Carlson | Phonological processes and syllable structure in Tainae |
| 1988 | Edward Kotynski | Tabaru phonology and morphology |
| 1988 | Pamela Wright | Madija predicates |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1991 | Gray Plunkett | The tone system of Foodo nouns |
| 1992 | Daniel Olson | A comparison of thematic paragraph analysis and vocabulary management profiles for an oral corpus |
| 1992 | Kristine Waskosky | Affixes of Salasaca Quichua with special attention to derivational affixes which attach to verbs |
| 1992 | John Paul Thomas | A morphophonology of Komo: non-tonal phenomena |
| 1993 | Cindy Williams | A grammar sketch of Damana |
| 1993 | William Kauffman | The great tone split and central Karen |
| 1993 | Ronald Hesse | Imyan Tehit phonology |
| 1993 | Richard Thiele | Interrogatives in Yanomam |
| 1994 | Shawn Boylan | Aspect in Mende |
| 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 |
| 1994 | Jakob Heckert | Discourse function of conjoiners in the Pastoral Epistles |
| 1995 | Lawrence Burke | An introduction to the verbal system of Central Dangaleat |
| 1995 | Larry Williams | Noun classification or spatial categorization: Damana orientation verbs |
| 1996 | Chia-jung Fan | A comparative study of the sounds of Kuo-Yu and Taiwanese |
| 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 and Chinese [abstract] |
| 1999 | Heather Walker | Student participation in the academic discourse community: An ESL student working independently and ESL students working with writing tutors [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] |
| 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 | 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] |
| 2002 | Bela Hettich | Ossetian: Revisiting inflectional morphology [abstract] |
| 2003 | Calvin F. Tiessen | Positive Orientation Towards the Vernacular among the Talysh of Sumgayit [abstract] |
| 2003 | Edward C. Quigley | Awara Phonology [abstract] |
| 2003 | Aliya S. Kuzhabekova | Past, present, and future of language policy in Kazakhstan [abstract] |
| 2004 | John J. Berthelette | Information structure in narrative texts in Byali (a Gur language of Benin) |
| 2005 | Renae L. Caneday | Interlanguage coda production of Hmong second language learners of English [abstract] |
Index of recent thesis abstracts
SIL-UND Linguistics Program
SIL-UND Work Papers
University of North Dakota