Martínez Alonso, Héctor (Date of defense: 2013-12-19)
Words that belong to a semantic type, like location, can metonymically behave as a member of another semantic type, like organization. This phenomenon is known as regular polysemy. In Pustejovsky's ...
Sánchez Marco, Cristina (Date of defense: 2012-11-16)
The main aim of this thesis is to trace the development of four different constructions involving auxiliaries and participles through the history of the Spanish language. These constructions are the ...
Chapin, Kayla (Date of defense: 2023-06-30)
Linguistic characteristics of spontaneous connected speech are showing increasing potential for detecting and tracking cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease, and could be particularly suitable to ...
Lischinsky, Alon (Date of defense: 2008-11-27)
Esta tesis estudia, desde una perspectiva crítica, cómo el conocimiento experto y la autoridad del autor se construyen y legitiman a través de la estructura discursiva de los libros populares sobre ...
Necşulescu, Silvia (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
Lexical-semantic relationships between words are key information for many NLP tasks, which require this knowledge in the form of lexical resources. This thesis addresses the acquisition of lexical-semantic ...
Zorzi, Giorgia (Date of defense: 2018-11-14)
This thesis gives a description and a syntactic analysis for coordination and gapping in conjunction in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) within the framework of Generative Grammar and Minimalism. Regarding ...
Kushch, Olga (Date of defense: 2018-03-09)
Previous research has shown that gestures are beneficial for language learning. This doctoral thesis centers on the effects of beat gestures– i.e., hand and arm gestures that are typically associated ...
Chimeva, Yordanka (Date of defense: 2021-07-14)
Telecollaboration through videoconferencing is one way of responding to the present situation in education resulting from the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as from globalization and innovation in ...
Cañas Peña, Sara (Date of defense: 2021-01-15)
This thesis provides a morphosyntactic description of polar questions and a pragmatic analysis of biased questions in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). Polar questions in LSC are obligatorily marked with ...
Muñoz Basols, Javier Francisco (Date of defense: 2012-03-09)
This thesis examines the relationship between sound, meaning, humor and culture through the lens of translation. It illustrates the relevance of sound to determining the meaning of words by analyzing ...