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Does Sundanese Have Prolepsis And/Or Raising To Object Constructions?, Eri Kurniawan

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

A, B, C, Or None Of The Above: A C-Command Puzzle In Tagalog, Bradley Larson

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Differential Object Marking In Tagalog, Anja Latrouite

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Interrogative Verb Sequencing Constructions In Amis, Dong-Yi Lin

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

How Does Who Compose?, Andreea Nicolae, Gregory Scontras

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

A Direct Analysis Of Malagasy Phrasal Comparatives, Eric Potsdam

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

A Probe-Based Account Of Voice Agreement In Formosan Languages, Chaokai Shi, T.-H. Jonah Lin

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Sequences Of Pronominal Clitics In Mantauran Rukai: V-Deletion And Suppletion, Doris Ching-Jung Yen, Loren Billings

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

The Politics Of Wounds, Jonathan Nash

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

What configuration of strategies and discourses enable the white male and settler body politic to render itself as simultaneously wounded and invulnerable? I contextualize this question by reading the discursive continuities between Euro-America’s War on Terror post-9/11 and Algeria’s War for Independence. By interrogating political-philosophical responses to September 11, 2001 beside American rhetoric of a wounded nation, I argue that white nationalism, as a mode of settler colonialism, appropriates the discourses of political wounding to imagine and legitimize a narrative of white hurt and white victimhood; in effect, reproducing and hardening the borders of the nation-state. Additionally, by turning to …

"We Were Meant To Go Down One Road, But Now We Have Rerouted": A Phenomenological Inquiry Into The Experience Of Aging Out-Of-Place, Sachindri Wijekoon

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

In an age of globalization, the experience of aging in a foreign land is part of the late-life experience of many older adults. However, studies of aging and migration have largely failed to conceptualize the unique resettlement experiences of immigrants entering North America as older adults. This dissertation asked, “What is the experience of aging out-of-place?” Specifically, this research question aimed to understand how late-life immigrants relate to, and connect and engage with places through aging processes, and the essentiality of daily occupations within such engagement. An interpretive paradigm and a hermeneutic phenomenological methodology guided this inquiry. The hermeneutic phenomenological …

Social Networks, Political Discourse And Polarization During The 2017 Catalan Elections, Rafael Monroig

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This thesis investigates the political process in Spain and Catalonia during the Catalan election in December 2017. This regional election was unusual because of the independence process in Catalonia and its repression. Two parties, Ciudadanos (anti-independence) and Podemos (ambiguous position) and their leaders’ activity in Twitter was analyzed. It was explored from three perspectives: social networks, lexical and emotional discourse and ideological polarization. Firstly, social networks were used to see the properties of the support communities of both parties. Interestingly unlike Ps, Ciudadanos’ (Cs) metrics of cohesion showed that political communities of this party in Spain and Catalonia were remarkably …

Neoliberalism And The School Choice Movement In The United States, Lianne M.A. Mulder

MA Research Paper

This paper investigates the role of neoliberalism in the advocacy for and implementation of school choice in the United States. It applies conflict theory of education to the school choice debate and uses post-Katrina New Orleans as a case study of school choice implementation. It concludes that neoliberal and like-minded think-tanks, foundations, and lobby groups are involved in the advocacy for school choice in the United States because it assists them in furthering their goals of influencing whose values and ideals will be taught and whose children will land the desired jobs; thereby maintaining the capitalist status quo and enabling …

Effects Of Aerial Lidar Data Density On The Accuracy Of Building Reconstruction, Peter Crawford

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Previous work has identified a positive relationship between the density of aerial LiDAR input for building reconstruction and the accuracy of the resulting reconstructed models. We hypothesize a point of diminished returns at which higher data density no longer contributes meaningfully to higher accuracy in the end product. We investigate this relationship by subsampling a high-density dataset from the City of Surrey, BC to different densities and inputting each subsampled dataset to reconstruction using two different reconstruction methods. We then determine the accuracy of reconstruction based on manually created reference data, in terms of both 2D footprint accuracy and 3D …

Non-Linear Time Series Modelling With Applications To Equity And Fixed Income Markets, Galyna Grynkiv

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

My thesis focuses on theoretical and empirical aspects of modelling time series during different financial and economic conditions. It consists of three separate chapters in which the properties of Threshold Vector Autoregressive Model (TVAR) models are addressed with subsequent applications to equity and fixed income markets. In the first chapter, which is a joint work with my supervisor Lars Stentoft, we examine the steady state properties of the TVAR model. Assuming the trigger variable is exogenous and the regime process follows a Bernoulli distribution, we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of a stationary distribution. The derived stationarity …

Cumulative Childhood Adversity And Disparities In Adult Psychological Distress And Educational Attainment, Loanna Heidinger

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Exposure to childhood adversity often does not occur as an isolated experience; rather, adverse childhood circumstances tend to co-occur, resulting in a climate of disadvantage that has detrimental consequences, and contributes to disparities in adult outcomes. Although the enduring impacts of cumulative childhood adversity on adult mental health and attainment outcomes are well documented in the literature, studies have not accounted for the long-term impact of cumulative childhood adversity on trajectories of adult psychological distress. Furthermore, measures of adversity used to predict selection into higher education consistently focus on childhood economic hardship as the sole indicator of adversity and overlook …

Characterizing The Cognitive And Emotional Effects Of Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol In Distinct Hippocampal Sub-Regions, Dinat Khan

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The objective of this study is to determine the potential differential effects of THC in the DH or VH sub-regions, as well as the upstream effects on PFC neuronal activity and oscillations. Rodents used for electrophysiology were infused with THC or vehicle in the DH or VH regions, combined with PFC recordings. Additionally, a battery of behavioural paradigms was performed. Deficits in short-term memory when THC was infused into both regions was observed, however working memory was impaired with VH infusions only. This could be due to THC-induced dysregulation in the PFC, as beta oscillations were significantly decreased selectively in …

The Changing Spaces Of Racialized Contestation In Brampton, Ontario; A Multimedia Analysis, Stuart Emberg Mchenry

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Demographic changes, most notably changes in ethnic composition, can have major implications for the successful functioning of a community. Brampton, Ontario, is an example of one of these changing communities. Using two media sources: one traditional—the local newspaper—and the other emergent—online news—this thesis answers several key questions: is demographic change from a predominantly European-descent population in 1991 to today’s majority ‘visible minority’ population related to changes in the manifestations of racialized incidents in Brampton as reported in The Brampton Guardian? Has the emergence of online news impacted the geographic scope and nature of racialized incidents?

Content analysis of one-hundred …

Hili-Clauses: Insights Into Tongan Nominalization, Douglas Ball

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Movement And Locality In Sundanese Wh-Questions, William D. Davies, Eri Kurniawan

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

On The Left Periphery In Indonesian, Catherine Fortin

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Backward Control In Samoan, Vincent Homer

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

News About The No-Phrase Specificational Pseudoclefts In Malagasy, Laura Kalin

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Voice Determines Co-Argument Anaphora In W. Austronesian, Edward L. Keenan

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Two Types Of Anticausatives In Acehnese, Seongyeon Ko

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Voice, Agree And Locality In Paiwan, Chao-Lin Li

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

The Structure Of (Un)Ergatives, Diane Massam

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

On Downward-Entailing Existentials And Differential Object Marking In Palauan, Justin Nuger

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Bare Nouns, Incorporation, And Scope, Ileana Paul

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

Another Look At No: Pseudo-Clefts And Temporal Clauses In Malagasy, Matt Pearson

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.

The Tagalog Copula, Norvin Richards

Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA)

No abstract provided.