This catalogue represents theses held in the collection of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. It is not a complete list of all theses completed by students of the school.
A complete collection of Master and PhD theses can be found in the Monash University Library (Honours theses are only available through the School.)
| Year
| Title |
Degree | code
|
| 2010 |
The Lexical Behaviour of Language Families: Qualitative Lexicostatistics |
PhD |
2010ko |
| 2009 |
Attitudes to English Spelling |
Hons. |
2009wm |
| Discourse functions of demonstratives and place adverbs with exophoric reference in Logea, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea |
PhD |
2009dc |
| Gender Assignment and Word-final Pronunciation in French: Two Classification Systems |
PhD |
2009am |
| Greeting the browsing customer: service encounter openings and the influence of gender |
Hons. |
2009mr |
| Playing it Gay: The construction of homosexual identity in the pilot episode of Will & Grace |
Hons. |
2009sd |
| Staying Together: Kinship, morphology and language change in Yanyuwa |
Hons. |
2009jw |
| Word rage: An investigation into why 'poor' language use 'justifies homicide' |
Hons. |
2009dk |
| 2008 |
Little, Great and Not-So-Great Russian: The Minor Literature of Nikolai Gogol |
PhD |
2008sp |
| 2007 |
Nationalism, Hegemony, Language Politics and Language Marginalization in Postcolonial Zimbabwe |
PhD |
2007nf |
| Perceptions of speech accomodation of English speaking migrants |
Hons. |
2007fp |
| Studying online community: New approaches for new communities |
Hons. |
2007dl |
| Technology and the creation of new words in English |
Hons. |
2007se |
| The LingTool application. An interface for the production of interlinear morphemic glosses in XML |
Hons. |
2007st |
| Translation of Nihon kaiga no joseizo (the image og Japanese women in Japanese paintings) by Ikeda Shinobu |
Hons. |
2007sc |
| Will a süβess sexy girl chattn? English borrowings on a German youth website |
Hons. |
2007gp |
| 2006 |
Expletives, abusive swearing, euphemism and dysphemism: An examination of taboo language and its functions in Australian television |
Hons. |
2006bm |
| Giveness, definiteness, and specificity in a language without articles: The use of NP markers in Saliba, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea |
Hons. |
2006cj |
| Indonesian Religious Humour: A cultural and linguistic analysis of religious humour in Indonesia |
Hons. |
2006ce |
| Indonesian Religious Humour: A cultural and linguistic analysis of religious humour in Indonesia |
Hons. |
2006ce |
| Intercultural Internet chat between learners of Japanese and English in informal contexts |
Hons. |
2006ps |
| Primary to secondary transition: What effects does it have on students' motivation to continue LOTE learning beyond the compulsary year level? |
Hons. |
2006fb |
| The grammar of Wathawurrung: The aboriginal language of the Geelong-Ballarat area |
Hons. |
2006dp |
| The Grammar of Western Dani |
PhD |
2006bp |
| The possessive constructions in English |
Hons. |
2006sc |
| "You have to speak it at least": language and identity maintenance among Australian migrant teenagers |
PhD |
2006wl |
| 2005 |
Raising
children bilingually through the ''one parent-one language
approach: A case study of Japanese mothers in the Australian context |
PhD | 2005tm |
| 2004 |
"You
can't come to my birthday party". Preference organisation
in young children's adversative discourse. | PhD |
2004ca |
| Structural
differences in father-child and mother-child conversations |
Hons. | 2004xv |
| 2003 |
Biliteracy
practices of Japanese-English bilingual children in melbourne, Australia. |
PhD | 2003wt |
| Forensic Speaker Identification | PhD |
2003pc |
| Pretending
to be someone you're not: a study od second dialect acquisition
in australia | PhD | 2003fa |
| Syntactic features of the English interlanguage of learners of English as a second language |
PhD |
2003zm |
| The role of pauses and intonation
in understanding the relationship between word order and pragmatics |
Hons. | 2003pa |
| 2002 |
A
Comparison of L1 and L2 Argument Structures in Student Writing |
Hons. | 2002gk |
| An investigation of discursive practices in
police-suspect interviews | PhD | 2002hg |
| Aspectual adverbs in wiradjuri.
Honours thesis in linguistics | Hons. |
2002cd |
| Contact
Phenomena between Veneto, Italian and English in the thrid generation
in Australia | PhD | 2002ra |
| Reference to a Third Person in
Sudanese | PhD | 2002li |
| The rhetorical organistaion of acedemic
texts in english: a comparison of research papers by native speakers
of English and Polish | PhD | 2002gz |
| The Tai Languages of Assam a grammar
and texts | PhD | 2002ms |
| 2001 |
Language function in the adult language addresses to young
language-delayed children | M.A. | 2001hp |
| The dynamic consultation: a discourse-analytical
study of doctor-patient communication in Chilean Spanish |
PhD | 2001cm |
| The Organisation of Pointing Sequences in Parent-Toddler
Interaction | PhD | 2001fa |
| The punctuation and interpretation
of restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses in Australian
and South African wriiten English | Hons. |
2001hc |
| Tu,
Vos, Usted: Uses of Spanish Address Pronouns in Spain, Canary Islands,
Argentina and El Salvador | M.A. | 2001oa |
| 2000 |
Feminist language planning and sociolinguistic variation |
Diploma | 2000st |
| The message or the medium? Issues of faith and
language in Ethnic churches | PhD | 2000wa |
| Year
| Title |
Degree | code
|
| 1999 |
International ESL Academic Writing: Lecturer Expectations,
Student Perceptions and Written Products. |
M.A. |
1999ml |
| Politeness
and Deference in Korean: A Case Study of Pragmatic Dynamics |
PhD |
1999sg |
| 1998 |
A
Corpus-driven study of Turkish-English Language Contact in Australia. |
PhD |
1998kn |
| Boko / Busa Language Cluster |
PhD |
1998jr |
| Investigating
text-based social practices: Literacy practices of a church community |
Hons. |
1998fa |
| Spelling Distorshuns: An investigation into
the use of spelling distortions in personalised number plates, brand
names, and graffiti. |
Hons. |
1998ba |
| The lexicon of North Eastern Rural
Victoria |
Hons. |
1998kj |
| The verbal system of the central
victorian language, the aboriginal language of melbourne |
Hons. |
1998ms |
| Vantage theory, Aristotle's categories and
linguistic structures |
Hons. |
1998vh |
| 1997 |
Language dynamics of the Italian community in Australia |
PhD |
1997cf |
| Participation frameworks, discourse features
and embedded requests in police V.A.T.E interviews with children |
Hons. |
1997hg |
| Pragmatic implicatins of the covergence between
East and West Germany |
PhD |
1997kh |
| Rhetorical Structure Analysis of
Specialist and Popularised Medical Review Articles |
PhD |
1997kg |
| The
Code-switching Practices of Teachers of French as a Second Language
in Victorian Secondary Schools. Vol I & II |
PhD |
1997gm |
| 1996 |
An Investigation into Discourse Anaphoric Relations: On
The Role Of Contextual Information In Anaphor Resolution. |
PhD |
1996ea |
| An Investigation into the Linguistic Aspects
of Graphemic Abbreviation and the Phonetics and Phonolgy associated
with PitmanScript Shorthand |
Hons. |
1996bt |
| Languages
in Contact: Vietnamese-English Code-Switching in Melbourne |
PhD |
1996ht |
| The Acquisition of Traditional Australian and
Modern (mostly American) Colloquialisms by Native and Non-native
Speakers of Australian English. Thesis & Appendices |
Hons. |
1996cj |
| The language of refusals in Sundanese society:
a workplace case |
M.A. |
1996ae |
| The Role of the Saturday School
in Latvian Language Maintenance in Melbourne. |
Hons. |
1996la |
| Third
Generation German Language Maintenance in Australia. Case Studies
of Six Families with Third Generation Children Ranging in Ages from
Four to Nineteen. |
M.A. |
1996me |
| 1995 |
"An Investigation into the Ethnolect of Australian
English Speakers of German Descent in the Western District of Victoria" |
Hons. |
1995es |
| American-English in Australia: The Role of Age,
Attitude and Lifestyle. |
Hons. |
1995mj |
| Aspects of Second Generation Language
Use: An Italo-Australian Case Study |
Hons. |
1995cf |
| Attitudes
of Singaporean Teachers to Features of Educated Singapore English |
Hons. |
1995cc |
| Perspectives on Greek-Australian media and language
Maintenance in Melbourne |
M.A. |
1995pb |
| The acquisition of noun phrases
in two English-German bilingual brothers |
Hons. |
1995ds |
| 1994 |
A Comparative Study of Indonesian and English Morphology |
M.A. |
1994su |
| Access to Interpreters in the Small Claims &
Residential Tenancies Tribunals |
Hons. |
1994ge |
| Aesthetic
Value and Language: Evaluative Reactions to English, Mandarin, Cantonese
and Hokkien. |
M.A. |
1994sc |
| Attitudes to Knowledge: A Comparative
Study of Attribution in ESB and NESB Summaries. |
M.A. |
1994mt |
| Collaboaration
in Intercultural Discourse: Examples from a Multicultural Australian
Workplace. |
PhD |
1994nd |
| Cracking the Code - An Insight into
Code-switching and Gender among Second Generation Greek-Australians. |
PhD |
1994tr |
| Emergent Discourses: The Construction of Gender
and Ethnicity in Australian English. |
PhD |
1994wj |
| Issues
in the Syntax of Kikamba: A Bantu Language. |
PhD |
1994ka |
| Perception
and Production Mismatches in Australian and South African English. |
Hons. |
1994nr |
| The Acquisition of Grammatical Gender in Modern
Greek by Second and Third Generation Greek-Australian Bilingual children
in Melbourne |
M.A. |
1994ti |
| The Acquisition of Passives in
Bahasa Indonesia by Two-and Three-Year Old Children in Jakarta |
M.A. |
1994se |
| 1993 |
A
Study of the Persuasive Discourse used in Promotional letters and
the public's attitude towards this discourse. |
Hons. |
1993ml |
| An
Investigation of the Grammatical Variation in the Use of Stative
Verbs among Singaporean Students Studying at Monash University. |
Hons. |
1993ys |
| Attitudes of Singaporean and Australian Students
at Monash University to Features of Educated Singapore English |
Hons. |
1993hm |
| Conditionals and Counterfactuality in Singaporean
English. |
Hons. |
1993zd |
| Language Attitudes, Ethnicity and
Language Maintenance. A Case Study of Second Generation Greek-Australians. |
Hons. |
1993km |
| The acquisition of German phonology by English
speaking school children |
M.A. |
1993wt |
| The Interpretation and Patterns
of Usage of Putatively Non-standard Lexical Items in Written Singapore
English amongst Educated Singaporeans. |
Hons. |
1993kc |
| 1992 |
Nominal Sentences in Modern Hebrew |
PhD |
1992bm |
| The
Acquisition and use of English Verb Patterns by Singapore Students
of English. Vol II (Appendices) |
PhD |
1992st |
| 1991 |
"Bad Girls get Babies...": The Representation
of Women in Three Medical Texts. |
Hons. |
1991ha |
| A phonological
comparision of German pronunciation between a native-speaker teacher
of German and a class who are learning German as a second language. |
Hons. |
1991wt |
| A Study Of The Development And Maintenance Of
A Second Language By Children In The Family Setting. |
Hons. |
1991sa |
| Aspects
of verb usage in Chinese: the BA- construction |
PhD |
1991ci |
| Attitudes
of Singaporean students at Monash University to putatively Chinese-influenced
grammatical features of Singaporean English. |
Hons. |
1991yj |
| The
Black Whole of Words - A study of dictionaries and their users. |
Hons. |
1991vs |
| The Development of Children's Written Narratives:
A Linguistic Perspective. |
Hons. |
1991mh |
| The retention of Greek among second
generation Greek-Australians and how and why they convey the language
to the third generation. Some case studies. |
Hons. |
1991tp |
| Transference
Phenomena In The Greek Spoken By Second-Generation Greek-English
Bilinguals In Melbourne. |
Hons. |
1991ti |
| 1990 |
Plain English And The Law. An Investigation Into The Use
Of Plain English In The Drafting Of The Draft Credit Bill 1989. |
Hons. |
1990ts |
| The Function of Questions in Business Negotiation:
A Linguistic Approach. |
Hons. |
1990gc |
| Year
| Title |
Degree |
code |
| 1989 |
A study on the effect of German language television programmes
and videos on German Language Maintenance in Melbourne. |
Hons. |
1989hn |
| A Universal Typology of Causative Construcations:
Functional and Diachronic Perspectives |
PhD |
1989sj |
| Acquisition
of English Syntax by Students from The People's Republic of China:
The Use of Articles. |
M.A. |
1989ab |
| Italian at Spensley Street Primary
School. |
Hons. |
1989cr |
| Italian at Spensley Street Primary
School. |
M.A. |
1989cr |
| Language policy issues at monash
university |
M.A. |
1989ol |
| Liguistic analysis of the speech
of autistic individual |
M.A. |
1989sh |
| Problems that students experience
with gender in French. |
Hons. |
1989hn |
| Sociolinguistic aspects of transference from English to Thai |
PhD |
1989sp |
| Some Aspects of Modern Irish Morphology. |
PhD |
1989sc |
| The acquisition of articles and the concept
of reference in the English of speakers of English as a Second Language. |
M.A. |
1989jc |
| The Mental Lexicon: Organization and Access.
Some Evidence From Speech Errors. |
Hons. |
1989sj |
| Variation
in Singapore Tamil English |
PhD |
1989sv |
| Verb errors in spoken english among
adult native speakers of German. |
Hons. |
1989ps |
| 1988 |
An investigation of variables in translation into english
by students at udayana university |
M.A. |
1988bn |
| Cohesion
in arrernte discourse |
M.A. |
1988rr |
| Language Policy Formulation and
Implementation: An Historical Perspective on Australian Languages. |
PhD |
1988fe |
| The Error Analysis of Verbal Inflexions in Written
English of Malaysian Secondary School Students. |
Hons. |
1988nn |
| Turn
Exchange in Conversation |
Hons. |
1988mj |
| 1987 |
Spelling Reform in the English Language as seen by
Residents of Melbourne (Appendices Separate) |
Hons. |
1987sj |
| Acoustic
and auditory study of the pronunciation of Japanese by Australian
students |
PhD |
1987kt |
| Language Choice, Language Mixing
and Language Attitudes: Indonesians in Australia |
PhD |
1987sb |
| Nominal
affixations in Indonesian: A semantic exploration |
PhD |
1987pj |
| The
Acquisition of English as a Second Language by Native Speakers of
Arabic. |
M.A. |
1987ka |
| The Acquisition of English by Balinese
Students |
M.A. |
1987si |
| The Acquisition of English by Indonesian
Students in Medan |
M.A. |
1987z |
| The acquisition of English structures
by students in Taiwan, Roc |
M.A. |
1987ci |
| The Internal Lexicon: A Neuro-psycholinguistic
Puzzle. |
Hons. |
1987dc |
| 1986 |
A Linguistic Study Of Korean Causative Constructions. |
Hons. |
1986sj |
| An Investigation Into The Nonmarking For "Past"
In Singapore English: A Case Study Using Compositions Written By
A Secondary Four Normal Stream Class. |
Hons. |
1986kt |
| The
Acquisition of English Clauses by Vietnamese Refugee Children. |
PhD |
1986fi |
| The Verb Phrase in Singapore English |
PhD |
1986hm |
| Variation in Hong Kong English |
PhD |
1986bc |
| 1985 |
Acquisition
Of The Simple English Noun Phrases By Malaysian Secondary School
Students: An Error Analysis Of Written Compositions. |
Hons. |
1985pz |
| Ganai:
A Study of the Aboriginal Languages of Gippsland based on 19th Century
Materials. |
M.A. |
1985fe |
| Some Aspects Of Verb Use By Students
Of Selected Schools In Kuala Lumpur And A Rural Area Of Selangor. |
Hons. |
1985dn |
| Story Grammar: Fact, Fiction Or Something In
Between? |
Hons. |
1985mm |
| The Verb In Bahasa Malaysia |
M.A. Prelim. |
1985nl |
| Tuning-In To Questions: The Intonation Of Questions
In British Television Drama. |
Hons. |
1985oz |
| 1984 |
The Pronunciation of the English Approxilect of Bahasa
Malayu Manado Speakers |
PhD |
1984lw |
| Towards a description of the word
in aranda |
Hons. |
1984rr |
| Uses of Right Dislacation: How
the 5-Year-Old Shapes his Speech |
PhD |
1984fs |
| 1983 |
A Study of Non-Verb-Final Sentences in Colloquial Japanese |
PhD |
1983ms |
| Code-Switching as a Developmental Phenomenon
in Child Bilingual Acquisition |
M.A. |
1983ls |
| Language
Ethnicity and Social Change: A Sociolinuistic Study of Afrikaans-speaking
groups in South Africa. |
PhD |
1983nl |
| Means Of Distinguishing Agent From
Patient In Simple Sentences With Special Reference To Japanese. |
Hons. |
1983ns |
| Modern Hebrew Compounds |
M.A. |
1983bm |
| The
Effect of Ideology on Language Teaching: A Study of the Jewish Day
Schools in Melbourne. |
PhD |
1983km |
| 1982 |
A description of khmu including comparisons with Thai |
PhD |
1982ps |
| An Outline Grammar of Matutjarra Luritja |
Hons. |
1982ca |
| Stress in an Indonesian approxilect of English |
M.A. |
1982sd |
| The Implications of the Rise of Aller + Infinitive
as a Periphrastic Future: a Study in Syntax, Semantics, and Language
Change. |
PhD |
1982wm |
| Topicalisation In Bahasa Indonesia. |
Hons. |
1982mj |
| Trade marks and advertising slogans |
M.A. |
1982sj |
| 1981 |
A
Linguistic Study of the Return of Language in a Homogeneous Group
of Aphasic Subjects (Class I Schuell) |
PhD |
1981mm |
| Baba
Malay: The Language of the 'Staits-Born' Chinese. |
M.A. |
1981ls |
| Jaffna Tamil English: Phonetic Aspects |
PhD |
1981kp |
| Work Order in Australian Languages. |
Hons. |
1981wd |
| 1980 |
Indirect
objects: a comparative study |
M.A. |
1980ps |
| Semantic-Syntactic
Disparity in English and Other Languages. |
PhD |
1980mp |
| Some
major constructions in Javanese: A lexicase approach |
PhD |
1980ba |
| South
East Asia as a Linguistic Area. |
Hons. |
1980bc |
| Variation
of Vowels Before / 1 / in Melbourne English |
Hons. |
1980gr |
| Year |
Title | Degree
| code |
| 1979 |
Aspects of English AND |
PhD |
1979rb |
| La Valence
Du Verbe En Francais Et En Allemand: Methodes Et Problemes |
PhD |
1979pp |
| Modality in Malayalam and English Sentence Structure |
PhD |
1979ja |
| Social Class Differences in Children's Language. |
PhD |
1979de |
| The Rise of Sinhalese Language Nationalism:
A Study in the Sociology of Language. |
PhD |
1979dk |
| 1978 |
A Study Of The Acquisition And Understanding Of English
Kinship Terms. |
Hons. |
1978tv |
| Aboriginal English |
M.A. |
1978pm |
| Bound
Pronouns in the Romance Languages and the Languages of Australia. |
Hons. |
1978dm |
| Compound Nouns in Cambodian. |
M.A. |
1978tt |
| Politeness
Strategies in the Speech of Japanese Children |
Hons. |
1978mv |
| Problems
With An S P Subject In Ergative Languages. |
Hons. |
1978sa |
| The
Djaru Language of Kimberley Western Australia. |
PhD |
1978tt |
| The
Semantics of Food, Food-Preparation, Eating and Drinking |
M.A. |
1978de |
| The west barkly languages: complex morphology |
PhD |
1978cn |
| Topic and Focus in Tagalog |
Hons. |
1978dc |
| Verbal
Gerund and Kindred Phenomena in English and Other Languages |
M.A. |
1978mp |
| 1977 |
Before
and After Tense. A study in the use of temporal expressions by children
becoming bilingual. |
Hons. |
1977kk |
| Melbourne Aboriginal English: An
Investigation into the differences in speech between Aboriginal persons
living in Melbourne and Australians of European descent. |
Hons. |
1977fe |
| Studies in Variation and Multilingualism |
Research Paper |
1977pj |
| The Growth of Nominalisations in Casual Constructions
in Children |
Hons. |
1977sj |
| Word-Formation in Burmese with
Special Reference to Adverbalization |
M.A. |
1977nk |
| 1976 |
A Cantrastive Study of The Verbal Group In Hebrew and
English. |
M.A. |
1976ei |
| A study of the pronounciation of
Chinese by Australian beginners |
PhD |
1976ct |
| Frequencies
of stntactic structures in Australian English, volume 1, 2 and 3 |
PhD |
1976br |
| Noun Formation in Cambodian. |
Hons. |
1976tt |
| Stylistic
Aspects of Work Order in Sinhala. (Appendices separate) |
M.A. |
1976dd |
| Syntax ans Semantics in Fillmorean Theory (A
Study of Vietnamese Case Grammar) |
PhD |
1976lt |
| 1975 |
"The maintenance of Modern Greek in Australia"
: a study of 5 areas of the maintenance of the greek language (and
culture) in modern Australian society |
Hons. |
1975bd |
| The
Noun Phrase in Bengali. |
PhD |
1975gm |
| 1974 |
A grammar of the Warunju language, North Queensland. |
M.A. |
1974tt |
| Language Loyalty in the Jewish Community of
Melbourne |
M.A. |
1974km |
| Papers in Australian Aboriginal
languages |
n/a |
1974bb |
| The Definite Article and its Place
in the Substantival Phrase in Thucydides Compared with Corresponding
Phrases in English |
M.A. |
1974cm |
| 1973 |
Form and Meaning in Chinese: An Analysis of Mandarin Syntax
after the Becker-Platt Model of Tagmemics |
PhD |
1973hj |
| Sememic
and Grammatical Structures in Gurung (Nepal) |
PhD |
1973gw |
| Some
Problems of Language Learning and Translation with Special Reference
to Malay and English. |
M.A. |
1973cj |
| The Use of the Particles "O"
and "Go" with Nouns in Modern Standard Japanese |
Hons. |
1973pd |
| Wahgi Phonology and Morphology |
M.A. |
1973pd |
| 1972 |
A Description of the Yukulta Language - An Aboriginal
Language of North-west Queensland. |
M.A. |
1972ks |
| Melbourne
Spanish: A sociolinguistic study of the influence of the English
language of the Spanish spoken by immigrants from Spain living in
Melbourne |
M.A. |
1972kg |
| Pronominalization in English |
Hons. |
1972de |
| 1969 |
An Acoustic Study
of Aspects of Maltese Phonetics (Inan Idiolect) |
Hons. |
1969wg |
| 1968 |
An elementary pedagogical grammar based on diagrammatic
representation of sentence structure |
Research
Paper |
1968br |
| On the Phonological System of Maltese |
Hons. |
1968wg |