Browsing Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese by Title
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The Role of Discourse Context and Verb Class in Native and Non-Native Spanish Postverbal Subjects
(Georgetown University, 2016)Recent research on the second language (L2) acquisition of postverbal subjects in Spanish has focused on the important role of discourse context in licensing postverbal subjects with unaccusative and unergative verbs ... -
The Sacred and the Profane in Five Aljamiado Narratives
(Georgetown University, 2016)This dissertation points at where the scholarship on Aljamiado-Morisco literature falls short and remedy what I believe is a problem. Viewing the entire corpus of literary production of a Muslim diaspora that lived under ... -
Second Language Spanish Intonation: Systemic and Realizational Dimensions of its Acquisition
(Georgetown University, 2019)There is increasing interest in the acquisition of second language (L2) intonation (e.g, Estebas-Vilaplana, 2017; Graham & Post, 2018), particularly in Spanish (e.g., McKinnon, 2017; van Maastricht, 2018; Yuan, González-Fuerte, ... -
The Secret Is in the Processing: A Study of Levels of Explicit Computerized Feedback in Heritage and L2 Learners of Spanish
(Georgetown University, 2017)The field of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) has expressed interest in pursuing a research agenda that expands the current heritage language (HL) strand of research to investigate how this heterogeneous ... -
Sikuriando melodías de tiempos lejanos: los sikuris cosmopolitas y la vigencia de "lo andino" en Bogotá, Santiago y Buenos Aires
(Georgetown University, 2017)This dissertation explores the ways in which the cosmopolitan players of Andean pan flutes, known as sikuris, perform music originally composed by indigenous peasants in the southern Andes and make it their own in the ... -
Sleek Words: Art Deco and Brazilian Modernism
(Georgetown University, 2014)I explore Art Deco in the Brazilian Modernist movement during the 1920s. Art Deco is a decorative arts style that rose to global prominence during this decade and its proponents adopted and adapted the style in order to ... -
The Spanish left periphery : questions and answers
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Structural consequences of language shift : Judeo-Spanish in Istanbul
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Talking to Avatars: The Computer as a Tutor and the Incidence of Learner's Agency, Feedback, and Grammatical Form in SLA
(Georgetown University, 2010)Increasingly, SLA research is exploring models of hybrid learning where computers are used not only as tools for information and communication purposes but as autonomous electronic tutors. Incipient evidence has shown that ... -
Task complexity, the cognition hypothesis, and interaction in CMC and FTF environments
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The Anxious Hero: Dissecting Masculinities in Thirteenth–Century Medieval Iberian Literature
(Georgetown University, 2018)My dissertation examines the varying and converging constructions of gender and genre in four thirteenth–century medieval Iberian texts: Poema de mio Cid, Libro de Alexandre, Libro de Apolonio and Alfonso X’s Estoria de ... -
The Category of Gender in Spanish–English Bilingual Grammars: Corpus and Experimental Evidence of Switched Determiner Phrases
(Georgetown University, 2021)This dissertation is about the category of gender in bilingual grammars. The specific focus is on the interplay between the linguistic properties that correlate with gender assignment in Spanish–English codeswitched speech ... -
The Child's Gaze and the Politics of Memory and Mourning: Spatiality, Spectrality and Sound in Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Cinema
(Georgetown University, 2021)Forgetting has become for many nations an undeniable part of their social and political reality, and in cases like Spain, has even been deemed the key to a future free from the repetition of conflict. However, the elimination ... -
The Effects of Type of Written Corrective Feedback and Level of Proficiency on Processing and Accuracy in Heritage Language Learners of Spanish
(Georgetown University, 2019)In the field of Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA), written corrective feedback (WCF) has been shown to play a facilitative role in improving written accuracy (e.g., Ashwell, 2000; Ferris & Roberts, 2001; Ferris, ... -
The Morphosemantics of Spanish Gender: Evidence from Small Nominals
(Georgetown University, 2019)The feature of ‘gender’ has been a popular topic in recent years due to a general interest in phi-features, agreement and concord, and noun categorization (Mathieu et al., 2018). Nevertheless, how interpretable gender is ... -
Towards a Transnational Aesthetic in Latin American Literature
(Georgetown University, 2015)This thesis looks at the representation of national and transnational spaces in contemporary Latin American literature. In doing so, it argues that contemporary writing expands both the geographical imaginary of the physical ... -
Transgresion y modernidad : la prosa de Ruben Dario
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Two Classes of Transitive Verbs: Evidence from Spanish
(Georgetown University, 2011)The unaccusativity hypothesis (Burzio 1986; Levin & Rappaport Hovav 1995; Perlmutter 1978) posits that intransitive verbs may be divided into two broad classes: unaccusatives, whose sole argument is an internal argument ... -
Una fecunda ignorancia: la alegoría en Felisberto Hernández como señal de su vigencia
(Georgetown University, 2018)The Uruguayan writer Felisberto Hernández (1902-1964) has been typically depicted as an outsider or a marginal figure within Latin-American Literature. Paradoxically, his influence and popularity have grown in time, with ... -
Universo sicario : espacios traumaticos y asesinos a sueldo. una aproximacion comparativa
(Georgetown University, 2010)
