THETICITY IN TIRIYÓ: An Empirical Reevaluation
| dc.contributor.author | Hatch, Rebecca A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-18T17:58:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-09-18T17:58:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-06 | |
| dc.description | 57 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Linguistics and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2014. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | My thesis explores the concept oftheticity, both in general and in a specific language: Tiriy6. This language is a member of the Cariban language family and its speakers live in Suriname and Brazil. Theticity is a type of utterance that allows a speaker to present all of the information in a clause as a single information structure unit with the value of"non-presupposed". This theoretical definition oftheticity is widely agreed upon in the subfield. However, it is not clear how you take this definition oftheticity and use it to find thetic utterances in your own language of study. What is missing is an operational definition. This thesis analyzes a research article by Eithne Carlin about a proposed thetic construction in Tiriy6: the 1-V-se construction. In particular, I analyze Carlin's research methodology to discover how she acquired evidence to support her claim that the 1-V-se construction is the thetic construction in Tiriy6. I found that she did not provide an operational definition of theticity in her article, which prompted me to reevaluate theticity in Tiriy6 with my own operational definition. I found that the 1-V-se construction can code theticity, however it is not the only clause type that can do so, and it has several other functions. Ultimately, I found that without an operational definition, there is no reliable way to find evidence to support a scientific claim. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/18251 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | University of Oregon thesis, Dept. of Linguistics, Honors College, B.A., 2014; | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cariban languages | en_US |
| dc.subject | Focus | en_US |
| dc.subject | Thetic Construction | en_US |
| dc.subject | Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Brazilian Language | en_US |
| dc.subject | Discourse Study | en_US |
| dc.title | THETICITY IN TIRIYÓ: An Empirical Reevaluation | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis / Dissertation | en_US |