Dissertations


Pre-Draft Dissertations

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.'
[This replaces the old requirement that a copy of the dissertation must be placed in the reading room.]

There are no pre-draft dissertation available at this time.

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.]

Valerie Guerin - Discovering Mavea: Grammar, Texts, and Lexicon

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

Kyuseek Hwang Jackson - The Effect of Information Structure on Korean Scrambling

Sunyoung Lee - Interpreting Scope Ambiguity in First and Second Language Processing: Universal Quantifiers and Negation

Tomoko Miyakoshi - Investigating ESL Learners' Lexical Collocations: The Acquisition of Verb and Noun Collocations by Japanese Learners of English

Jun Nomura - Japanese Postposing: The Role of Early Discourse Pragmatics

Department Updates

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NEW Wait List for Ling 102 Unit Mastery. Write to linguist@hawaii.edu
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NEW Fall 2009 Linguistics course availibility.

NEW Spring 2010 course schedule and descriptions (PDF)

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