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Ghazal Poetry and the Marwanids: A study of Kuthayyir Azza
(2019-05-18)This dissertation offers a comprehensive study of the life and work of Kuthayyir ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, a love poet and panegyrist who died in AH 106 / 725 in his hometown of Medina, in the Hijaz. The dissertation reexamines ... -
Linguistic and Phenomenological Theories of Verbal Cognition in Mīmāṃsā: A Study of the Arguments in Śālikanātha's Vākyārthamātṛkā-I and the Response in Sucarita's Kāśikāṭīkā
Mīmāṃsā thinkers propound an epistemology generally characterised as philosophical realism, and given their foundational resolve to disambiguating Vedic comprehension, a similar attitude is reflected in their speculations ... -
Second Language Acquisition and Processing of Chinese bei Passives
(2019-02-23)This doctoral dissertation reports on an empirical study, which takes a feature-based approach and probes the L2 acquisition and processing of Chinese bei passives by adult English native speakers. In Chinese, an individual ... -
The Southwest: A Study of Regional Identity in Material Culture and Textual Sources during the Eastern Han Dynasty (25 - 220 C.E.)
This dissertation studies examples of social and cultural memory and identity manifested in the art of the southwest, present-day Sichuan province, during the Eastern Han dynasty. Through the study of the southwest’s ...
