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  • A Grammar of Wampis 
    Peña, Jaime (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)
    This dissertation constitutes the first attempt at describing the grammar of Wampis (Spanish: Huambisa), a language spoken in the Peruvian Amazon. Wampis belongs to the so-called Jivaroan family of languages and is closely ...
  • A Historical Reconstruction of the Koman Language Family 
    Otero, Manuel (University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)
    This dissertation is a historical-comparative reconstruction of the Koman family, a small group of languages spoken in what now constitutes the borderlands of Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan. Koman is comprised five living ...
  • Bantu Applicative Construction Types Involving *-ID: Form, Functions, and Diachrony 
    Pacchiarotti, Sara (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)
    This dissertation first addresses various shortcomings in definitions of “applicative” when compared to what is actually found across languages. It then proposes a four-way distinction among applicative constructions, ...
  • A Grammar of Northern and Southern Gumuz 
    Ahland, Colleen (University of Oregon, 2012)
    Gumuz is a Nilo-Saharan dialect cluster spoken in the river valleys of northwestern Ethiopia and the southeastern part of the Republic of the Sudan. There are approximately 200,000 speakers, the majority of which reside ...
  • A GRAMMAR OF NORTHERN MAO (MÀWÉS AAS’È) 
    Ahland, Michael (University of Oregon, 2012)
    Northern Mao is an endangered Afroasiatic-Omotic language of western Ethiopia with fewer than 5,000 speakers. This study is a comprehensive grammar of the language, written from a functional/typological perspective which ...
  • Information Management in Isaan Storytelling 
    Raksachat, Milntra (University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)
    This study is an investigation of information packaging or information structure properties associated with selected productive morphosyntactic constructions in Isaan narrative texts. The description and analysis of ...
  • Nominalization and Predication in Ut-Ma'in 
    Paterson, Rebecca (University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)
    U̠t-Ma'in is a Kainji, East Benue-Congo language, spoken in northwestern Nigeria (ISO 639-3 code [gel]). This study contributes to our understanding of Benue-Congo languages by offering the first indepth look at nominalization ...
  • Topics in Asimjeeg Datooga Verbal Morphosyntax 
    Griscom, Richard (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)
    Asimjeeg Datooga is a Southern Nilotic language spoken by approximately three thousand people in Northern Tanzania, and it is grouped together with other language varieties in the Datooga family or dialect cluster. Although ...
  • Topics in Ho Morphophonology and Morphosyntax 
    Pucilowski, Anna (University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
    Ho, an under-documented North Munda language of India, is known for its complex verb forms. This dissertation focuses on analysis of several features of those complex verbs, using data from original fieldwork undertaken ...

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