Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-274). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 21, 2009). Advisor: Shawn Banasick. Keywords: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-253).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003. / Supervisors: William E. Doolittle and Terry Jordan-Bychkov. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

Thesis (M.A.)-University KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2009. / Full text also available online . Scroll down for electronic version.

Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Lee Edwards, Kathryn M. Kocher. Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-130). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-219).

The dissertation is a basic description of segmental phonology, tone, and the functions of tone in the San Juan Quiahije (SJQ) variety of Eastern Chatino. Chatino languages are spoken in the southern part of Oaxaca, Mexico. Chatino languages form a subgroup that is coordinate with the Zapotec languages in the Zapotecan family of the Otomanguean linguistic stock. The dissertation focuses on the sound system of SJQ Chatino, its system of tones, and the lexical, morphological, and syntactic functions of the tone system. SJQ Chatino is of special interest because it is a Chatino variety that has reduced nearly all historic simple stems to monosyllables, leaving behind complex consonant clusters; it has an exceptionally large tone system and complex system of tonal sandhi; the tones mark significant grammatical contrasts in addition to lexical units; and tone sandhi is significant in cuing syntactic and discourse structure. This description starts with an introduction to the language, its language family, a typological overview, a brief history of my fieldwork, and the methodology undertaken in this study. The work then describes the segmental phonology, including syllable structure and the distribution of the consonant and vowel phonemes, and the tones and tone sandhi, arguing for a system of fourteen contrastive tones at the lexical level. The work then turns to the functions of tone, including the restrictions on the lexical tone system according to the part of speech, with special emphasis on numeral words; the use of tone in marking possessor person and number in inalienably possessed nouns, and in marking aspect and subject person and number in verb; and tone in Spanish loan words. The description and analysis of these aspects of Quiahije Chatino is based on data gathered through elicitation and oral texts as well as my own intuitions as a native speaker of SJQ Chatino. / text

This thesis documents the fieldwork component of the archaeological survey, testing, and data recovery efforts associated with 41BX1753, a historic-age site located in downtown San Antonio, Texas. This paper details the project’s activities and results and provides feature and artifact descriptions. Furthermore, this work provides a contextual analysis of 41BX1753 based on the artifacts recovered and the archival record. In the report, I explore the social, political and economic relationships in San Antonio’s past through the study of the material and archival records associated with a single property and its residents. Examined within a greater historical context, these records are indicative of choices made by some of San Antonio’s most influential residents indicating a sense of identity and status, as well as strategies of adaptation and accommodation to ensure stability in the face of constant change. / text

The San Pedro Zacapa quadrangle lies along the valley of the Río Ulúa, just southwest of Lago de Yojoa in west-central Honduras. Most of the area lies within the sierras of northern Central America; volcanic ranges and plateaus encroach upon the quadrangle from the south. No pre-Cretaceous rocks are exposed, but a basement of Paleozoic or older low grade metasediments and metavolcanic rocks is known to underlie this region. Very probably a thick section of Jurassic continental clastic strata is also present below the Cretaceous units. The oldest exposed strata belong to the Albian Atima Formation, carbonate shelf deposits of thick-bedded micrite. Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary redbeds of the Valle de Ángeles Group conformably overlie the Atima limestone. The redbeds have been informally divided into three members: a lower member of coarse continental clastic strata, a middle member of Cenomanian shallow marine limestone, and an upper member of fine-grained redbeds with associated gypsum, limestone conglomerate, and coarse metamorphic-rock conglomerate. The Cenomanian limestone member probably is not correlative with the Esquías limestone (which is thought to be Eocene, and does not crop out in the map area). Previous reports included the Cenomanian limestone within the Atima Formation; however, the extensive redbed section separating the limestones makes it apparent that the upper limestone is a part of the Valle de Ángeles Group. After deposition of the Valle de Ángeles limestone member, the region was subjected to late Cretaceous-early Tertiary deformation which produced normal faults and east-trending, broad, open folds in the Atima Formation and lower members of the Valle de Ángeles Group. Limestone conglomerate was shed into the central part of the quadrangle from upfaulted limestone highlands to the northeast. A quartz microdiorite was emplaced at Cerro Lavanderos. To the southeast more severe deformation resulted in the Montaña de Comayagua structural belt, which trends N. 60° W. across central Honduras. Fine-grained andesitic flow rocks of the Matagalpa Formation were erupted subaerially across eroded Mesozoic strata beginning in Oligocene time. These eruptions were probably related to subduction along the Middle America Trench. Following a quiescent period, voluminous mid-Miocene and Pliocene ignimbrites with associated tuffaceous strata and flows were deposited nonconformably over Matagalpa rocks throughout much of northern Central America. The Zacapa area lies to the north of the main accumulations of Padre Miguel ignimbrites; fluviatile tuffaceous strata comprise the bulk of the Padre Miguel Group in the map area. A 400 meter thick pile of basaltic flows was built up around a local eruptive center along the Ulúa fault system. Late Cenozoic normal faulting, primarily along northwest and northeast trends, has occurred almost continuously since Matagalpa time. The Santa Bárbara graben, a major depression with more than 1500 meters of structural relief, extends from the south-central part of the Zacapa quadrangle for thirty-five kilometers to the northwest. North of the map area the graben is bounded by a large horst block which appears to have been uplifted by a deep-seated intrusion. Important silver and base metal mineralization at El Mochito is associated with this intrusion. During Plio-Pleistocene time the Santa Bárbara graben was partially infilled by up to 200 meters of valley fill conglomerate, sandstone, and siltstone derived primarily from Tertiary volcanic units, but including redbed detritus as well. Present-day streams are removing this fill and down-cutting into older units. Minor Quaternary basalt eruptions occurred at the north end of Lago de Yojoa, and within the map area a small Quaternary (?) eruption issued from a fault along the Horconcitos horst. Small pockets of stibnite and impure gypsum are the only deposits of economic interest in the Zacapa quadrangle. / text

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