Linguistics Programme

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Linguistics at the University of Otago is part of the Department of English in the Division of Humanities.

The Linguistics Programme offers not only a full undergraduate programme, Honours, MA and PhD, but also a number of courses in second language acquisition, and teaching of English as a second language with a view to meeting the rapidly increasing demand for teachers of English here in New Zealand and overseas.

Recent Deposits

The middle construction in English : a cognitive linguistic analysis

Yoshimura, Kimihiro (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1998)
The Effect of Gender and Familiarity on the Use of like in New Zealand English

Yates, Rebecca Anna (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)

Research on the pragmatic device like has primarily focused on like as a quotative. The overall distribution of like has received comparatively little attention. Particularly lacking are accounts which show how like may ...
Culture in the classroom of ESL learners: A case study of how culture is represented in the lessons of ESL children at a New Zealand mainstream primary school

Oranje, Joanne Maree (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)

This study investigated whether teachers at a New Zealand full primary school considered it important for culture generally, and the cultures of their English Second Language (ESL) learners’ specifically, to feature in ...
Metaphor in Psychotherapy: Description and Applications

Tay, Dennis (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)

The relationship between metaphor, language, and thought, as hypothesised by cognitive linguists, requires detailed investigation of actual metaphor use in different situations and contexts. Researchers have examined ...
Patterns of phrasal constituent order and adjacency in Old English prose: a performance-based analysis

Hogbin, Elizabeth Jane (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)

The principle of end-weight has frequently been applied to the word order patterns of Old English (e.g. Colman, 1991; Kohonen, 1978; Reszkiewicz, 1966, 1971; Strang, 1970). Although there are strong indications that heavier ...