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studies:graduation:thesis:topics:linguistics [2019-10-04 10:08] â [PĂ©ter SzigetvĂĄri] PĂ©ter SzigetvĂĄri | studies:graduation:thesis:topics:linguistics [2019-11-30 12:46] â [Irina Burukina, Marcel den Dikken, Mark Newson, Krisztina SzĂ©csĂ©nyi] PĂ©ter SzigetvĂĄri | ||
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- | >> under construction | + | These topics are suggested by DELG staff to students planning to write their BA thesis in linguistics. |
- | These topics are suggested by DELG staff. | + | == Irina Burukina, Marcel den Dikken, Mark Newson, Krisztina Szécsényi |
- | ===== Attila StarÄeviÄ ===== | + | # The syntax and morphology of tense and aspect in English: How many tenses and aspects are there? What is the relationship between tense/ |
+ | # The subjunctive mood in English: Does it exist and, if so, under which circumstances do we find it? What is the relationship between the subjunctive and imperative mood? | ||
+ | # How can the differences and similarities between topicalisation (//This dish I wouldn' | ||
+ | # Cleft (//It is a pizza that he is eating//) and pseudo-cleft (//What he is eating is a pizza//, //A pizza is what he is eating//) sentences: How does their syntax work? What are they useful for? | ||
+ | # Degrees of comparison in the adjectival system, and the interaction between morphology and syntax: e.g., // | ||
+ | # The placement of adverbial modifiers in the English clause: pre- //vs// post-modal adverbial insertion (//He likely will say yes// ~ //He will likely say yes; He likely won't say yes// ~ //He won't likely say yes//); the distribution of the split infinitive (//I decided to fully describe it / fully to describe it / to describe it fully//). | ||
+ | # The distribution of the quantifiers //some// and //any// in negative and non-negative clauses: syntax and semantics (//I don't want to talk to somebody/ | ||
+ | # The status of //that// in restrictive relatives: relative pronoun or complementiser (//the man who/that I saw//, //the man to who(m)/*to that I spoke, *the man who that I saw//)? | ||
+ | # The status of //if// and // | ||
+ | # Sentential //vs// constituent negation: How does the distinction manifest itself, in English and other languages? Is the distinction syntactically real, and, if so, how is it represented in syntax? | ||
+ | # The English determiner system: How many different types of determiners can be distinguished? | ||
+ | # Inversion of the subject and the finite verb occurs in a variety of different contexts in English: root interrogatives (//Have you eaten yet?//, //What are you eating?//); root- and non-root clauses featuring fronting of a negative constituent (//Under no circumstances would they accept this; It is reported that under no circumstances would they accept this//) sentences; conditionals (//Had you been more diligent, you would have been more successful// | ||
+ | # Typical errors made by non-native learners of English: (a) the use of English articles (//He became pilot, I love the music// (as a generic statement about music in general), //Budapest of my youth//); (b) English word-order (//Who did take my pen?, Why you are doing this?, *Near Budapest have they a house//). What can the theory of syntax take away from or contribute to an understanding of these errors? | ||
+ | # The English genitive: Are //âs// and //of// exponents of the same syntactic category or not? How to analyse the co-occurrence of //âs// and //of// in expressions such as //a friend of John' | ||
+ | # Light verbs (//__make__ a turn, __take__ a walk//): How are these best represented in syntax? Do they have meaning? | ||
+ | # Different ways of expressing causation in English (lexical causatives, morphological causatives, //make// causatives, //have// causatives, // | ||
+ | # The special syntax of English news headlines and other forms of ' | ||
+ | # Accusative pronouns in English: How can we account for their distribution (//I want him to leave; Who wants to leave? Me!; Me and him are good mates; Him walking out like that was rude; Poor me!; Him a vegetarian? | ||
+ | # Different strategies in forming // | ||
+ | # The Uniformity of Theta Assignment Hypothesis and a comprehensive syntactic representation of the distribution of the Theme (//They took the pirates off the ship; The pirates walked off the ship; The pirates are off the ship; With the pirates off the ship, the voyage can finally continue; As soon as they have left the gangplank, I consider the pirates off the ship//). | ||
- | * Palatalization in English: how many times and when? | + | == Zoltån G. Kiss |
- | * Rules and lexicalization: | + | |
- | * Lexical and postlexical rules in English | + | |
- | * Treatment of a historical rule in English: e.g., the influence of /l/ on the preceding vowel (//all// vs. //ally//)Â | + | |
- | * How did breaking and broadening happen in English? | + | |
- | * Analysing an older piece of text linguistically (e.g., Chaucerâs poetry)Â | + | |
- | * Has coda /l/ always been âdarkâ in English? | + | |
- | ===== PĂ©ter SzigetvĂĄri ===== | + | * is there voicing assimilation in English?, compare the behaviour of obstruent clusters with respect to voicing in voicing languages (like Hungarian, Spanish, Russian, etc.) vs. aspirating languages (like English)Â |
+ | * neutralization in phonology, does complete neutralization exist?, neutralization phenomena (flapping, stops after fortis fricatives, vowel reduction, nasal place assimilation in English, voicing assimilation in Hungarian, etc.), the role of speech perception in potentially neutralizing positions | ||
+ | * the role of Voice Onset Time in the laryngeal contrast of obstruents; the role of phonetic features other than vocal fold vibration in the contrast of obstruents (vowel duration, consonant duration, glottalization, | ||
+ | * the laryngeal contrast of fortis vs lenis fricatives and affricates in English, what is their contrast based on? | ||
+ | * phonological and non-phonological (social, stylistic, dialectal, frequency, etc.) factors in phonological variation (e.g., glottalization, | ||
+ | * different theoretical approaches to the analysis of Linking and Intrusive R (rule-based theories vs. phonetics-based vs. historical approaches vs. analogy-based analyses, etc.)Â | ||
+ | * variation in the realizations of CUBE vowels, when are the diphthongs pronounced long (without glides), when are the long monophthongs (R-vowels) realized as long vs. diphthongized; | ||
- | | + | == Péter A. Låzår |
- | * The distribution of glides | + |  |
- | * The distribution of liquids | + | * Multiword items classified in various English (and Hungarian) sources/ |
- | * Excrescent plosives in consonant clusters (// | + | * Regular polysemy types in English (and Hungarian): //a heavy book// vs //a difficult book; a chicken// vs //some chicken.// |
- | * R-vocalization and its effects on the vowel system of English | + | * Instances of word forms of a lexeme having different/ |
- | * L-vocalization and its effects on the vowel system of English | + | * Word families vs lexical/ |
- | * How many degrees of stress are there in English? | + | * Dictionaries: |
- | * The sound system of Hunglish | + | * Types of oppositeness: |
+ | * Polysemy developing into homonymy: when/ | ||
+ | * Combining forms (neo-classical âcompoundsâ) in English (and Hungarian). | ||
+ | * Non-right-headed compounds in English (and Hungarian). | ||
+ | * The opacity and the fixity gradience of English (and Hungarian) idioms. Can a word be an idiom? | ||
+ | * Creative variation with English (and Hungarian) idioms. | ||
+ | * âEnglish gets millionth word on Wednesday, site saysâ. On how many levels is this an impossible claim? | ||
+ | * Inflection vs derivation: crisp contrast or gradience? | ||
+ | Â | ||
+ | == Attila StarÄeviÄÂ | ||
+ | Â | ||
+ | * Palatalization in English: how many times and when? | ||
+ | * Rules and lexicalization: | ||
+ | * Lexical and postlexical rules in English | ||
+ | * Treatment of a historical rule in English: e.g., the influence of /l/ on the preceding vowel (//all// vs. //ally//)Â | ||
+ | * How did breaking and broadening happen in English? | ||
+ | * Analysing an older piece of text linguistically (e.g., Chaucerâs poetry)Â | ||
+ | * Has coda /l/ always been âdarkâ in English? | ||
+ | Â | ||
+ | == Péter Szigetvåri | ||
+ | Â | ||
+ | * Phonotactic constraints of English | ||
+ | ** The distribution of glides | ||
+ | ** The distribution of liquids | ||
+ | ** Excrescent plosives in consonant clusters (// | ||
+ | * R-vocalization and its effects on the vowel system of English | ||
+ | * L-vocalization and its effects on the vowel system of English | ||
+ | * How many degrees of stress are there in English? | ||
+ | * The sound system of Hunglish | ||
+ | Â | ||
+ | == Miklós Törkenczy | ||
+ | Â | ||
+ | * Flapping after sonorant consonants in English accents | ||
+ | * // | ||
+ | * âYod-droppingâ in unstressed syllables | ||
+ | * The phonology of the irregular past | ||
+ | * How regular is English stress? | ||
+ | * The stressing of compounds: patterns and predictability | ||
+ | * Stress clash (adjacent stresses) in words. | ||
+ | * Socially conditioned phonological variation in English | ||
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