Dissertations & Master’s Theses

Selected Ph.D. dissertations & Master’s theses written by UNM graduates that focus on Navajo language and linguistics.

Ph.D. Dissertations

Linguistics

Anthropology

  • Neundorf, Alice. 1987. Bilingualism: a bridge to power for interpreters and leaders in the Navajo Tribal Council. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico. (Ph.D. Dissertation.)
  • Peery, Char. 2015. New Deal Navajo Linguistics and Language Documentation. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico. (Ph.D. Dissertation.) (https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/anth_etds/50)

Education

Communication

  • Belone, Lorenda. 2010. An examination of communicative dialectical tensions and paradoxes encountered by Native American researchers in the field and in the academy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico. (Ph.D. Dissertation.) (https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cj_etds/16)

Literacy and Orthography

M.A. Theses

Linguistics

  • Chee, Melvatha R. 2007. The acquisition of Navajo verbs. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico. (M.A. Thesis.)
  • Drinkwater, Michael. 2019. He Spoke, I Spoke: A Usage-Based Examination of Homophony in the Navajo Verb Complex. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico. (M.A. Thesis.) (https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ling_etds/66)