Browsing UW Milwaukee Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Author "Edith A. Moravcsik"

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    • Cross-Linguistic Metonymies in Human Limb Nomenclature 

      Pattillo, Kelsie E. (2014-05-01)
      This dissertation is a cross-linguistic lexical study of metonymic change in human limb nomenclature. The data analyzed for this study make up both synchronic and diachronic databases. The synchronic data come from a sample ...

    • First Language Status and Second Language Writing 

      Slocum, Sheryl Stephanie (2013-05-01)
      In spite of growing numbers in high schools and colleges, US-resident adolescent bilingual learners, sometimes termed "English as a second language" (ESL) or "Generation 1.5," are not succeeding academically in proportion ...