Ph.D. Dissertations
Listed in reverse chronological order. To find a specific name, please use the Search function on your Web browser.
| Name | Current Position | Dissertation Title | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sozen Ozkan | Word Order and Information Structure in Turkish | 2020 | |
| Iara Mantenuto | 2020 | ||
| Richard Stockwell | Contrast and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Triviality, Symmetry, and Comptetition | 2020 | |
| Daniela Culinovic | Second position’ revisited: a uniformly syntactic account of ‘split’ predicates | 2020 | |
| Nikos Angelopoulos | Post-doctoral Researcher, Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven | Complementizers and Prepositions as Probes: Insights from Greek | 2019 |
| Eleanor Glewwe | Mellon Post-doctoral fellow, Grinnell College | Bias in Phonotactic Learning: Experimental Studies of Phonotactic Implicationals | 2019 |
| John Gluckman | Assistant Professor at The University of Kansas | Perspectives on Syntactic Dependencies | 2019 |
| Isabelle Lin | Student, L’Ecole Cesan, Paris | Functional Load, Perception, and the Learning of Phonological Alernations | 2019 |
| Meng Yang | Academic Consultant at BeMo Academic Consulting Inc. | Cue Integration and Contact Shifts: Experimental and Typological Studies | 2019 |
| Nicoletta Loccioni | Lecturer in Linguistics at UCLA | Getting "the most" out of Romance | 2018 |
| Jesse Zymet | Lecturer in Linguistics at UC Berkeley | Lexical propensities in phonology: corpus and experimental evidence, grammar, and learning | 2018 |
| Ann M. Aly | Senior UX Researcher at Agile Six Applications, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland | Prosodic Effects of Code-Switching in Spanish-Basque Bilinguals | 2017 |
| Adam J. Chong | Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London | On the Relation between Phonotactic Learning and Alternation Learning | 2017 |
| Meaghan Fowlie | Assistant Professor at Linguistics Dept. of Universiteit Utrecht in The Netherlands | Learning and modeling iterable ordered optional adjuncts | 2017 |
| Michael L. Lefkowitz | Member of Technical Staff, Apprente | Maxent Harmonic Grammars and Phonetic Duration | 2017 |
| Yu Tanaka | Assistant Professor, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan | The Sound Pattern of Japanese Surnames | 2017 |
| Ann (Niki) M. Acker | Linguistics Project Manager, Google via Adecco | Voice and Valance in Q'anjob 'al | 2016 |
| Natalia (Natasha) Korotkova | Post-doctoral researcher, University of Tübingen, and University of Konstanz | Heterogeneity and Uniformity in the Evidential Domain | 2016 |
| Victoria E. Mateu Martin | Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics at the UCLA Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese | Intervention Effects in the Acquisition of Raising and Control: Evidence from English and Spanish | 2016 |
| Jos L. Tellings | Post-doctoral researcher, Utrecht University | Counterfactuality in Discourse | 2016 |
| Lauren Winans | Insights Manager, Siegel+Gale (formerly Lecturer, USC) | Inferences of "will" | 2016 |
| Dustin Bowers | Visiting Scholar, University of Arizona (formerly Post-doctoral fellow, University of Alberta, Canada) | A System for Morphophonological Learning and its Consequences for Language Change | 2015 |
| Joe Buffington | Assistant Professor Law, Albany Law School | The Logical Form of Contract Formation | 2015 |
| Yun Jung Kim | Lecturer, Emory University, Atlanta | 6-month-olds' segmentation and representation of morphologically complex words | 2015 |
| Jun Yashima | Lecturer, (Asst. Prof), Senshu University, Tokyo | Antilogophoricity: In Conspiracy with the Binding Theory | 2015 |
| Byron Ahn | Assistant Professor, Program in Linguistics, Princeton University | Giving Reflexivity a Voice: Twin Reflexives in English | 2015 |
| Melanie J. Bervoets | Data Scientist at TD, Toronto, Canada | On Opining: Modal Verbs, Dispositions, Free Choice, and Negation | 2014 |
| Laura Kalin | Assistant Professor, Program in Linguistics, Princeton University | Aspects and argument licensing in Neo-Aramaic | 2014 |
| Laura E. McPherson | Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College | Replacive grammatical tone in the Dogon languages | 2014 |
| Kaeli Ward | Analyst, Strategy & Business Management, BMO Capital Markets | Backtracking and have to: Maintaining a unified analysis of conditionals | 2014 |
| Craig W. Sailor | Post-doctoral researcher, CASTL, University of Tromsø, (Formerly Teaching Assoc, Cambridge Univ., UK) | The Variables of VP Ellipsis | 2014 |
| Jason B. Bishop | Assistant Professor, CUNY Graduate Center | Prenuclear Accentuation in English: Phonetics, Phonology, Information Structure | 2013 |
| Mark Garellek | Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego | Production and perception of glottal stops | 2013 |
| Thomas Graf | Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University | Local and Transderivational Constraints in Syntax and Semantics | 2013 |
| Jianjing Kuang | Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania | Phonation in Tonal Contrasts | 2013 |
| Chen Hsiu (Grace) Kuo | Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University | Perception and Acoustic Correlates of the Taiwanese Tone Sandhi Group | 2013 |
| Nancy A. Ward | Child Language | The role of modality and register in imitation by adults and children | 2013 |
| James C. White | Lecturer (Assoc. Prof), University College, London | Bias in Phonological Learning: Evidence from Saltation | 2013 |
| Natasha Abner | Assistant Professor, University of Michigan | 2012 (Hilda Koopman and Edward Stabler, co-chairs) There Once Was a Verb: The Predicative Core of Possessive and Nominalization Structures in American Sign Language | 2012 |
| Heather Burnett | Universite Paris Diderot-Paris 7 | 2012 (Edward Keenan and Dominique Sportiche, co-chairs) The Grammar of Tolerance: On vagueness, context-sensitivity and the origin of scale structure | 2012 |
| Isabelle Charnavel | Associate Professor, Harvard University | 2012 (Dominique Sportiche, chair) On her own – Parsimonious Compositionality: Probing syntax and semantics with French propre | 2012 |
| Denis Paperno | Assistant Professor, Utrecht University | 2012 (Edward Keenan, chair) Semantics and Syntax of Non-Standard Coordination | 2012 |
| Robyn Orfitelli | Lecturer (Asst. Prof), University of Sheffield, UK | Argument Intervention in the Acquisition of A-movement | 2012 |
| B.R. George | Assistant Professor (Dept. of Philosophy) | Question Embedding and the Semantics of Answers | 2011 |
| Kevin Ryan | Professor and Chair, Harvard University | Gradient Weight in Phonology | 2011 |
| Victoria Thatte | Adjunct Instructor at Grossmont College, San Diego | 2011 (Bruce Hayes and Megha Sundara, co-chairs) Infant Phonotactic Learning | 2011 |
| Chad Vicenik | Physics Teacher, St Dunstan’s College, London | 2011 (Megha Sundara, chair) The Role of Intonation in Language Discrimination by Infants and Adults | 2011 |
| Kristine Yu | Assistant Professor, U. Mass., Amherst | 2011 (Edward Stabler and Megha Sundara, co-chairs) The Learnability of Tones From the Speech Signal | 2011 |
| Vincent Homer | Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Polarity and Modality | 2010 |
| Roy Becker- Kristal | Staff Researcher, DigiSpeech, Herzliya, Israel | Acoustic typology of vowel inventories and Dispersion Theory: Insights from a large cross-linguistic corpus | 2010 |
| Tomoko Ishizuka | Associate Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan | Toward a Unified Analysis of Passives in Japanese: A Cartographic Minimalist Approach | 2010 |
| Benjamin Keil | Researcher, Google | Generating Descriptions of Motion From Cognitive Representation | 2010 |
| Ji Eun Kim | Assistant Professor, University of Ulsan, Korea | 2010 (Sun-Ah Jun and Russell Schuh, co-chairs) The Generation of Implicit Propositions in “Alleged” Korean Topics | 2010 |
| Ingvar Lofstedt | Phonology | 2010 (Bruce Hayes and Kie Zuraw, co-chairs) Phonetic Effects in Swedish Phonology: Allomorphy and Paradigms | 2010 |
| Lawrence Yam-Leung Cheung | Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong | The Negative Wh-Construction | 2008 |
| Molly Shilman | Head of Research and Content, Consumer Financial Service Corporation | On the Question of Accent Domains in English | 2008 |
| Heather Wilson | Formerly Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University | Subject Positions in Marshallese | 2008 |
| Reiko Okabe | Associate Professor, Nihon University, Japan | Child Causatives: Acquisition of Bi-clausal Structures in Japanese | 2008 |
| Sameer ud Dowla Khan | Associate Professor and Chair, Reed College | Intonational Phonology and Focus Prosody of Bengali | 2008 |
| Leonard Chacha Mwita | Faculty member at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya | Verbal Tone in Kuria | 2008 |
| Kuniko Nielsen | Associate Professor, Oakland University, Michigan | Word-level and Feature-level Effects in Phonetic Imitation | 2008 |
| Katrina (Katie) Tang | Adjunct Faculty, U. North Dakota | The Phonology and Phonetics of Consonant-Tone Interaction | 2008 |
| David Schueler | Research Linguist (Independent Contractor at Codeq LLC) | The Syntax and Semantics of Implicit Conditionals: Filling in the Antecedent | 2008 |
| Katya Pertsova | Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Learning Form-Meaning Mappings in Presence of Homonymy: a linguistically motivated model for learning inflection | 2007 |
| Andrew Martin | Associate Professor, Konan University, Kobe, Japan | The Evolving Lexicon | 2007 |
| Nathan Klinedinst | Lecturer (Asst. Prof), University College, London | Plurality and Possibility | 2007 |
| Jeffrey Heinz | Professor, Stony Brook University | Inductive Learning of Phonotactic Patterns | 2007 |
| Shabnam Shademan | Senior Project Manager, Deep 6 AI | Grammar and Analogy in Phonotactic Well-formedness Judgments | 2007 |
| Greg Kobele | Professor, University of Leipzig, Formerly Asst. Professor, Univ. of Chicago | Generating Copies: An Investigation into Structural Identity in Language and Grammar | 2006 |
| Jill Gilkerson | Language Research Director, LENA Foundation, Boulder CO | Acquiring English Particle Verbs: Age and Transfer Effects in Second Language Acquisition | 2006 |
| Dimitrios Ntelitheos | Associate Professor, United Arab Emirates University | The Morphosyntax of Nominalizations: A Case Study | 2006 |
| Christina Esposito | Associate Professor & Chair, Macalester College, St. Paul. MN | The Effects of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Phonation | 2006 |
| Brook Lillehaugen | Associate Professor, Haverford College, Chair of Linguistics at Haverford College | Expressing Location in Tlacolula Valley Zapotec. | 2006 |
| John Foreman | Associate Professor, The University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley | The Morphosyntax of Subjects in Macuiltianguis Zapotec | 2006 |
| Jason Kandybowicz | Associate Professor, CUNY Graduate Center | Conditions on Multiple Copy Spell-Out and the Syntax Phonology Interface | 2006 |
| Timothy Arbisi Kelm | Senior Res Assoc, Boys Town National Research Hospital | An Intonational Analysis of Disfluency Patterns in Stuttering | 2005 |
| Eric Jackson | Linguist, SIL International | Resultatives, Derived Statives, and Lexical Semantic Structure | 2005 |
| Heidi Fleishhacker MacBride | Formerly Data Engineer, Factual Inc. | Similarity in Phonology: Evidence from Reduplication and Loan Adaptation | 2005 |
| Harold Torrence | Associate Professor, UCLA (Prev. Univ. of Kansas) | On the Distribution of Complementizers in Wolof | 2005 |
| Leston Buell | Translator and Linguist, Amsterdam | Issues in Zulu Verbal Morphosyntax | 2005 |
| Ying Lin | Mathematics Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College | Learning Features and Segments from Waveforms: A Statistical Model of Early Phonological Acquisition | 2005 |
| Dan Albro | Software Engineer, Google (Deceased) | Reduplication in Optimality Theory: Computation and Analysis | 2005 |
| Rebecca Scarborough | Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder | Coarticulation and the Structure of the Lexicon | 2005 |
| Haiyong Liu | Associate Professor, Wayne State University | Complex Predicates in Mandarin Chinese: Three Types of Bu-Yu Structures | 2004 |
| Jason Riggle | Associate Professor, University of Chicago | Generation, Recognition, and Learning in Finite State Optimality Theory | 2004 |
| Sahyang Kim | Professor, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea | The role of prosodic phrasing in Korean word segmentation | 2004 |
| Heriberto Avelino | Professor, I.N. de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico (prev. Max Planck Inst, Leipzig | Topics in Yalalag Zapotec, with Particular Reference to its Phonetic Structures | 2004 |
| Alex MacBride | Analytical Linguist, Google | A Constraint-Based Approach to Morphology | 2003 |
| Ivano Caponigro | Associate Professor, UCSD (San Diego) | Free Not to Ask: On the Semantics of Free Relatives and Wh-Words Cross-linguistically | 2003 |
| Gianluca Storto | Technical Program Manager, Google | Possessives in Context: Issues in the Semantics of Possessive Constructions | 2003 |
| Masangu Matonado | Assistant Professor, University of Florida | Tone and Prosodic Morphology in Kisukuma | 2003 |
| Mary Baltazani | Lecturer & Researcher, Oxford University, formerly tenured Asst. Prof., Univ. of Ioannina, Greece | Quantifier scope and the role of intonation in Greek | 2002 |
| Adam Albright | Professor, MIT | The Identification of Bases in Morphological Paradigms | 2002 |
| Melissa Epstein | IRB Director, Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Voice Quality and Prosody in English | 2002 |
| Brenda Joyce-Clark | African Linguistics | Noun Classifiers | 2001 |
| Stefano Vegnaduzzo | Senior Vice President, Data Science, Integral Ad Science | A Partition Semantics for Temporal Adverbs | 2001 |
| Henk Harkema | AI Research Scientist, Samsung Electronics | Parsing Minimalist Languages | 2001 |
| Taehong Cho | Professor, Hanyang University, Korea | Effects of Prosody on Articulation in English | 2001 |
| Christina Foreman | Speech-Language Pathologist, West Hartford (Ct) Public Schools | The Use of Contrastive Focus by High-Functioning Children with Autism | 2001 |
| Edward Garrett | Researcher Asst, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK | Evidentiality and Assertion in Tibetan | 2001 |
| Jie Zhang | Professor, University of Kansa | The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Contour Tone Distribution–Typological Survey and Formal Analysis | 2001 |
| J. Matt Pearson | Professor, Reed College | The Clause Structure of Malagasy: A Minimalist Approach | 2000 |
| Victoria Anderson | Associate Professor, University of Hawai’i | Giving Weight to Phonetic Principles: The Case of Place of Articulation in Western Arrente | 2000 |
| Misha Becker | Professor & Chair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | "The Development of the Copula in Child English: The Lightness of Be" | 2000 |
| Peter Hallman | Principal Investigator, Austrian Research Inst for AI | The Structure of Predicates: Interactions of Derivation, Case and Quantification | 2000 |
| Marco Baroni | Facebook AI Research & Professor, Univ. de Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona | Distributional Cues in Morpheme Discovery: A Computational Model and Empirical Evidence | 2000 |
| Alhaji Maina Gimba | Professor, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria | “Topics in Bole Verb Morphology” | 2000 |
| Kie Ross Zuraw | Professor, UCLA | Patterned Exceptions in Phonology | 2000 |
| Katherine Crosswhite | "Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory" | 1999 | |
| Sean Fulop | Associate Professor, California State University, Fresno | On the Logic and Learning of Language | 1999 |
| Matthew Gordon | Professor and Chair, UCSB (Santa Barbara) | Syllable Weight: Phonetics, Phonology and Typology | 1999 |
| Kimberly Thomas-Vilakati | San Bernardino City Unified School District | Coproduction and Coarticulation in IsiZulu Clicks (published 2010, UC Press) | 1999 |
| Felicia Lee | Freelance Writer and Editor | Antisymmetry and the Syntax in San Lucas Quiavini Zapotec | 1999 |
| Harold Crook | Professor, Lewis-Clark State College | The Phonology and Morphology of Nez Perce Stress | 1999 |
| Kelly Stack | Faculty Support Specialist, UCSC (Santa Cruz) | Innovation by a Child Acquiring Signing Exact English II | 1999 |
| Mari Sakaguchi | Faculty Member, Notre Dame Seishin University | Distributivity in English and Japanese | 1998 |
| Susan Hess | Pharyngeal Articulations | 1998 | |
| Robert Kirchner | Associate Professor, University of Alberta | An Effort-Based Approach to Consonant Lenition | 1998 |
| Manuel Espanol-Echevarria | Professor, Laval University, Quebec | “The Syntax of Purposive Expressions” | 1998 |
| Barbara Blankenship | The timecourse of breathiness and laryngealization in vowels | 1997 | |
| Brian C. Potter | Wh/Indefinites and the Structure of the Clause in Western Apache | 1997 | |
| Javier J. Gutierrez Rexach | “Quantification, Context Dependence, and Generalized Minimalist Grammer: Studies on the Interpretation of Clitic Proforms and Existential Determiners in Spanish” | 1997 | |
| Margaret R. MacEachern | Laryngeal Cooccurrence Restrictions | 1997 | |
| Jeannette C. Schaeffer | Direct Object Scrambling in Dutch and Italian Child Language | 1997 | |
| Richard A. Wright Professor, U. of Washington, Seattle | Consonant Clusters and Cue Preservation in Tsou | 1997 | |
| Deogratias S. Ngonyani | "The Morphosyntax of Applicatives" | 1996 | |
| Roderic F. Casali | Resolving Hiatus | 1996 | |
| Murat Kural | Verb Incorporation and Elementary Predicates | 19996 | |
| Tomiko Hayashi | “The Syntactic and Semantic Structures of Complex Predicate Constructions in Japanese” | 1996 | |
| Michael P. Dukes | “On the Nonexistence of Anaphors and Pronominals in Tongan” | 1996 | |
| Nhlanhla L. Thwala | A Generative Grammar of Si-Swati: Morphology of Syntax of Nouns and Verbs | 1995 | |
| Dorit Ben-Shalom | Semantic Trees | 1995 | |
| Michael A. Nkemnji | Heavy Pied-Piping in Nweh | 1995 | |
| Stephen M. Adewole | Yoruba Word Formation Processes | 1995 | |
| Tetsuya Sano | Roots in Language Acquisition: A Comparative Study of Japanese and European Languages | 1995 | |
| Lawan Danladi Yalwa | Issues in the Syntax of Hausa Complementation | 1995 | |
| Filippo Beghelli | The Phrase Structure of Quantifier Scope | 1995 | |
| Susan L. Banner Inouye | “Trills, Taps, and Stops in Contrast and Variation” | 1995 | |
| Edward S. Flemming | Associate Professor, MIT, Boston | "Auditory Representations in Phonology" | 1995 |
| Robert E. Hagiwara | Assistant Professor, U. Manitoba | Acoustic Realizations of American /r/ as Produced by Women and Men (P. Ladefoged, chair) | 1995 |
| Bonny E. Sands | Evaluation Claims of Distant Linguistic Relationships: The Case of Khoisan | 1995 | |
| Daniel D. Silverman | "Phasing and Recoverability" | 1995 | |
| Aaron M. Shryock | Investigating Laryngeal Contrasts: An Acoustic Study of the Consonants of Musey (R. Schuh and I. Maddieson, co-chairs) | 1995 | |
| Abigail R. Kaun | The Typology of Rounding Harmony: An Optimality Theoretic Approach | 1995 | |
| Seungho Nam | The Semantics of Locative Prepositional Phrases in English | 1995 | |
| Jongho Jun | Professor, Seoul National U. | Perceptual and Articulatory Factors on Place Assimilation | 1995 |
| Kaoru Ohta | Verbal Nouns in Japanese | 1994 | |
| William B. Dolan | “Context-Freeness and the Lexicon” | 1994 | |
| Hiroyuki Nagahara | Phonological phrasing in Japanese | 1994 | |
| Dani M. Byrd | Professor, Uni. Southern California | Articulatory Timing in English Consonant Sequences (P. Keating, chair) | 1994 |
| Andi Wu | "The Spell-Out Parameters: A Minimalist Approach to Syntax" | 1994 | |
| Stephan M. Schuetze-Coburn | Prosody, Syntax, and Discourse Pragmatics: Assessing Information Flow in German Conversation | 1994 | |
| Hyunoo Lee | "Categories, Structures, and Principles of Anaphoric Dependencies" | 1993 | |
| Bonnie H. Chiu | “The Inflectional Structure of Mandarin Chinese” | 1993 | |
| Karen K. Wallace | Verb Incorporation and Agreement in Crow | 1992 | |
| John-Dongwook Choi | Phonetic Underspecification and Target- Interpolation: An Acoustic Study of Marshallese Vowel Allophony (P. Keating, B. Hayes, chairs) | 1992 | |
| Laura D. Crain | Clause Chaining in Nepali Discourse | 1992 | |
| Thomas L. Cornell | Description Theory, Licensing Theory, and Principle-Based Grammars and Parsers | 1992 | |
| Daniela Valois | Professeur titulaire, Université de Montréal | The Internal Syntax of DP , 12/91 (D. Sportiche) | 1991 |
| Lukowa Kidima | Tone and Accent in KiYaka | 1991 | |
| Chris Golston | Both Lexicons , 9/91 (V. Fromkin, D. Steriade, chairs) | 1991 | |
| Peter N. Landerman | Quechua Dialects and their Classification ,8/91 (G. Bedell, chair) | 1991 | |
| Vicki M. Carstens | Associate Prof., U. Missouri | The Morphology and Syntax of Determiner Phrases in Kiswahili | 1991 |
| Sarah N. Dart | Articulatory and Acoustic Properties of Apical and Laminal Articulations (P. Ladefoged, chair) | 1991 | |
| Jack B. Martin | The Determination of Grammatical Relations in Syntax, 2/91 (T. Stowell, chair) | 1991 | |
| Linda L. Arvanites | The Glottalic Phonemes of Proto-Eastern Cushitic, 1/91 (R. Anttila, chair) | 1991 | |
| Kasangati K.W. Kinyalolo | Syntactic Dependencies and the SPEC- head Agreement Hypothesis in KiLega, 1/91 (H. Koopman, D. Sportiche, chairs) | 1991 | |
| Hyo Sang Lee | Tense, Aspect, and Modality: A Discourse-Pragmatic Analysis of Verb Affixes in Korean from a Typological Perspective, 12/90 (P. Munro, S. Thompson, chairs) | 1990 | |
| Catherine A. Jackson | The Grammatical Consequences of Early Focal Damage to the Left Hemisphere of the Brain, 12/90 (S. Curtiss, V. Fromkin, chairs) | 1990 | |
| George Aaron Broadwell | Extending the Binding Theory: A Muskogean Case Study, 6/90 (P. Munro, T. Stowell, chairs) | 1990 | |
| James J. Tyhurst | Logical Forms for English Sentences, 6/90 (E. Keenan, chair) | 1990 | |
| Feng-Hsi Liu | Scope Dependency in English and Chinese, 6/90 (E. Keenan, chair) | 1990 | |
| Lynette B. Nyaggah | Cross-Linguistic Influence in Kenyan English: The Impact of Swahili and Kikuyu on Syntax, 5/90 (T. Hinnebusch, chair) | 1990 | |
| Abigail C. Cohn | Professor, Cornell U. | Phonetic and Phonological Rules of Nasalization | 1990 |
| Brian D. McHugh | Cyclicity in the Phrasal Phonology of Kivunjo Chaga | 1990 | |
| Fay Wouk | The Impact of Discourse on Grammar: Verb Morphology in Spoken Jakarta Indonesian | 1989 | |
| Richard G. Campbell | The Grammatical Structure of Verbal Predicates | 1989 | |
| Christian Matthiessen | Text-Generation as a Linguistic Research Task | 1989 | |
| Marie K. Huffman | Implementation of Nasal: Timing and Articulatory Landmarks | 1989 | |
| Nobuko Sugamoto | The Pronominality of Referential Expressions | 1989 | |
| Lee S. Bickmore | Kinyambo Prosody | 1989 | |
| Marian Shapley | Fundamental Frequency Variation in Conversational Discourse | 1989 | |
| Elizabeth G. Weber | Varieties of Questions in English Conversation: A Study of the Role of Morphosyntax in Declarative and Nonclausal Forms, 3/89 (R. Anttila, S. Thompson, chairs) | 1989 | |
| Outi Bat-El | Phonology and Word Structure in Modern Hebrew | 1989 | |
| Carol D. Lord | Syntactic Reanalysis in the Historical Development of Serial Verb Constructions | 1989 | |
| Shoichi Iwasaki | A Study of Speaker’s Perspective in Japanese Spoken Discourse | 1988 | |
| James Forrest Fordyce | Studies in Sound Symbolism with Special Reference to English | 1988 | |
| Alice J. Anderton | The Language of the Kitanemuks of California | 1988 | |
| Bonnie C. Glover | The Morphophonology of Muscat Arabic | 1988 | |
| Michel T.T Jackson | Phonetic Theory and Cross-Linguistic Variation in Vowel Articulation | 1988 | |
| Jean G. Mulder | Professor, University of Melbourne | Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax), 5/88 (P. Munro, S. Thompson, chairs) | 1988 |
| Susanna A. Cumming | Syntactic Function and Constituent Order Change in Malay | 1988 | |
| Janine Scancarelli | Grammatical Relations and Verb Agreement in Cherokee | 1987 | |
| Karen D. Emmorey | Morphological Structure and Parsing in the Lexicon | 1987 | |
| Anne M. Stewart | Clause-Combining in Conchucos Quechua Discourse | 1987 | |
| Richard D. Janda | On the Motivation for Evolutionary Typology of Sound-Structural Rules, 6/87 (S. Anderson, chair) | 1987 | |
| John D. Soper | Loan Syntax in Turkic and Iranian: The Verb System of Tajik, Uzbek, and Qashqay | 1987 | |
| Ore Yusuf | Verb Phrase Serialization in Yoruba in Discourse Perspective, 12/86 (R. Schuh, S. Thompson, chairs) | 1986 | |
| Hongmo Ren | On the Acoustic Structure of Diphthongal Syllables | 1986 | |
| Laurice Ann Tuller | Bijective Relations in Universal Grammar and the Syntax of Hausa | 1986 | |
| Thomas Hun-Tak Lee | Studies on Quantification in Chinese, 9/86 (G. Bedell, chair) | 1986 | |
| Chen Ping | Referent Introducing and Tracking in Chinese Narratives | 1986 | |
| Dennis G. Holt | The Development of the Paya Sound System | 1986 | |
| Charles H. Ulrich | Choctaw Morphology | 1986 | |
| Robin L. Clark | Boundaries and the Treatment of Control | 1985 | |
| Geoffrey A. Lindsey | Intonation and Interrogation: Tonal Structure and the Expression of Pragmatic Function in English and Other Languages | 1985 | |
| Lioba P. Moshi | Grammatical Relations in Swahili Discourse | 1985 | |
| Doris L. Payne | Participant Coding in Yagua Discourse, 5/85 (S. Thompson, chair) | 1985 | |
| Sharon L. Hargus | The Lexical Phonology of Sekani | 1985 | |
| Philip J. Jaggar | Factors Governing the Morphological Coding of Referants in Hausa Narrative Discourse, 1/85 (R. Schuh, chair) | 1985 | |
| Ava Berinstein | Evidence for Multiattachment in K’ekchi Mayan (W. Bright, D. Perlmutter, chairs) | 1984 | |
| Telee Chi | A Lexical Analysis of Verb-Noun Compounds in Mandarin Chinese, 9/84 (S. Thompson, chair) | 1984 | |
| Daniel Kempler | Professor Emeritus, Emerson College | Syntactic and Symbolic Abilities in Alzheimer's Disease, 9/84 (R. Anttila, S. Curtiss, chairs) | 1984 |
| John V. Singler | Variation in Tense-Aspect-Modality in Liberian English | 1984 | |
| Barbara A. Fox | Discourse Structure and Anaphora in Written and Conversational English, 7/84 (S. Thompson, chair) | 1984 | |
| Andrew J. Fox | The Evolution of the Hebrew Infinitive, Form and Function: A Diachronic Study with Cross-Linguistic Implications | 1984 | |
| Michael T. Hammond | Constraining Metrical Theory: A Modular Theory of Rhythm and Destressing, 1/84 (B. Hayes, chair) | 1984 | |
| Tracy G. Thomas-Flinders | Morphological Structures | 1983 | |
| Jeni E. Yamada | The Independence of Language: A Case Study, 6/83 (V. Fromkin, chair) | 1983 | |
| Sukari B. Salone | Conditional Sentences in Swahili, 6/83 (P. Schachter, S. Thompson, chairs) | 1983 | |
| David J. Weber | A Grammar of Huallaga (Huanoco) Quechua | 1983 | |
| Sandra F. Disner | Vowel Quality: The Relation between Universal and Language Specific Factors | 1983 | |
| Vida Samiian | Structure of Phrasal Categores in Persian: An X-Bar Analysis, 3/83 (P. Schachter, chair) | 1983 | |
| Mary Lee Trithart | The Applied Affix and Transitivity: A Historical Study in Bantu | 1982 | |
| Amnon Gordon | The Structure of the Hebrew Lexicon, 12/82 (P. Schachter, chair) | 1982 | |
| Jonas N.A. Nartey | On Fricative Phones and Phonemes: or the Fricative Difference within and between Languages | 1982 | |
| David Gil | Distributive Numerals | 1982 | |
| Jean M. Phillips | A Sociolinguistic Perspective on English Neological Processes | 1982 | |
| Wendy J. Linker | Articulatory and Acoustic Correlates of Labial Activity in Vowels: A Cross-Linguistic Study | 1982 | |
| Joèlle S. Bailard | Diachronic Evidence and theForm of French Grammar | 1982 | |
| Judy S. Reilly | Acquisition of Conditionals in English | 1982 | |
| Sharon M. Klein | Syntactic Theory and the Developing Grammar: Reestablishing the Relationship Between Linguistic Theory and Data From Language Acquisition | 1982 | |
| William J. Greenberg | Aspects of a Theory of Singular Reference: Prolegomena to a Dialectical Logic of Singular Terms, 2/82 (P. Schachter, chair) | 1982 | |
| Julia Horvath | Aspects of Hungarian Syntax and Theory of Grammar | 1981 | |
| Linda M. Galloway | Contributions of the Right Cerebral Hemisphere to Language and Communication: Issues in Cerebral Dominance with Special Emphasis on Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, Sex Differences, and Certain Ethnic Groups, 9/81 (S. Krashen, P. Ladefoged, chair) | 1981 | |
| John R. Watters | A Phonology and Morphology of Ejagham, with Notes on Dialect Variation | 1981 | |
| Michael P. Noonan | Lango Syntax, 6/81 (S. Thompson, chair) | 1981 | |
| Steven Greenberg | Temporal Neural Coding of Pitch and Vowel Quality | 1980 | |
| Lynn Gordon | Maricopa Morphology and Syntax, 12/80 (P. Munro, chair) | 1980 | |
| Marina McIntire | Locatives in American Sign Language | 1980 | |
| George Papçun | How do Different Speakers Say the Same Vowels? Discriminant Analysis of Four Imitation Dialects | 1980 | |
| Yun-Yang Eric Zee | Phonetic Studies of Chinese Tones | 1980 | |
| Carmen Silva-Corvalan | An Investigation of Phonological and Syntactic Variation in Spoken Chilean Spanish, 11/79 (S. Thompson, B. Wald, chairs) | 1979 | |
| Heather K. Hardy | Tolkapaya Syntax: Aspect, Modality, and Adverbial Modification in a Yavapai Dialect | 1979 | |
| Kenji Hirakouji | Ni and No in Japanese, 11/79 (G. Bedell, chair) | 1979 | |
| Barbara S. Lopez | The Sound Pattern of Brazilian Portuguese (Cariocan Dialect), 11/79 (S. Anderson, chair) | 1979 | |
| Alora J. Burton | Phonological Systems of Aphasic Children, 11/79 (V. Fromkin, chair) | 1979 | |
| Barnabas Forson | Code-Switching in Akan-English Bilingualism | 1979 | |
| Yero Sylla | Grammatical Relations and Fula Syntax, 9/79 (R. Schuh, chair) | 1979 | |
| Lynell Marchese | Tense/Aspect and the Development of Auxiliaries in the Kru Language Family, 9/79 (S. Thompson, chair) | 1979 | |
| Eser E. Erguvanli | The Function of Word Order in Turkish Grammar, 9/79 (S. Thompson, chair) | 1979 | |
| Anuradha Saksena | The Grammar of Hindi Causatives, 8/79 (P. Schachter, chair) | 1979 | |
| Edward Norman Gary | Extent in English: A Unified Account of Degree and Quantity | 1979 | |
| Randall J. Hendrick | On Nesting and Indexical Conditions in Linguistic Theory | 1979 | |
| Brent E. DeChene | The Historical Phonology of Vowel Length, 5/79 (S. Anderson, chair) | 1979 | |
| Euphrasia C. Kunene | The Acquisition of SiSwati as a First Language: A Morphological Study with Special Reference to Noun Prefixes, Noun Classes, and Some Agreement Markers | 1979 | |
| Sharon L. Sabsay | Communicative Competence in Down’s Syndrome Adults, 3/79 (W. Bright, chair) | 1979 | |
| Leon C. Jacobson | DhoLuo Vowel Harmony: A Phonetic Investigation | 1979 | |
| Katsue Akiba | A Historical Study of Old Japanese Syntax | 1978 | |
| Catherine P. Browman | Tip of the Tongue and Slip of the Ear: Implications for Language Processing | 1978 | |
| Kent D. Bimson | Comparative Reconstruction of Proto-Northern-Western Mande | 1978 | |
| Dale R. Terbeek | A Cross-Language Multidimensional Scaling Study of Vowel Perception | 1977 | |
| Erhard F.K. Voeltz | Proto-Niger-Congo Verb Extensions | 1977 | |
| Louis M. Goldstein | Three Studies in Speech Perception: Features, Relative Salience, and Bias | 1977 | |
| Wendy K. Wilkins | The Variable Interpretation Convention: A Condition on Variables in Syntactic Transformations, 6/77 (J. Emonds, chair) | 1977 | |
| Ian Maddieson | Universals of Tone: Six Studies, 6/77 (P. Ladefoged, chair) | 1977 | |
| Dauda M. Bagari | Subordinate Adverbial Clauses in Hausa | 1976 | |
| Susan Curtiss | The Case of Genie: A Modern Day “Wild Child” | 1976 | |
| Jilali Saib | A Phonological Study of Tamazight Berber: Dialect of the Ayt Ndhir | 1976 | |
| Marian C. Bean | A Study of the Development of Word Order Patterns in Old English in Relation to Theories of Word Order Change | 1976 | |
| Baruch Elimelech | A Tonal Grammar of Etsako | 1976 | |
| Robert W. McCoard | Tense Choice and Pragmatic Inferences: A Study of Preterit/Perfect Oppositions in English | 1976 | |
| Martin J. Mould | Comparative Grammar Reconstruction and Language Subclassification: The North Victorian Bantu Languages | 1976 | |
| Alexandre Kimenyi | A Relational Grammar of Kinyarwanda | 1976 | |
| Livingstone Walusimbi | Relativization and Focusin in Luganda and Bantu | 1976 | |
| Stephen Cushing | The Formal Semantics of Quantification, 6/76 (J. Emonds, chair) | 1976 | |
| Kathleen G. Dahlgren | Referential Semantics, 6/76 (J. Emonds, chair) | 1976 | |
| Thomas Bye | Aspects of the Acquisition of Communicative Competence: The Role of Listener-Oriented Presuppositions in Producing Directions, 6/76 (S. Thompson, chair) | 1976 | |
| Jackson T. Gandour | Aspects of Thai Tone, 6/76 (V. Fromkin, chair) | 1976 | |
| Laura F. Meyers | Aspects of Hausa Tone | 1976 | |
| Eugene W. Bunkowske | Topics in Yala Grammar | 1975 | |
| Mona E. Lindau | Features for Vowels | 1975 | |
| Grover M. Hudson | Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University | Suppletion in the Representation of Alternations, 9/75 (V. Fromkin, T. Vennemann, chairs) | 1975 |
| Eva-Maria M. Wotschke | Ordered Grammars with Equivalence Classes: Some Formal and Linguistic Aspects, 8/75 (S. Greibach, P. Schachter, chairs | 1975 | |
| Isaac George | A Grammar of Kwa-Type Verb Serialization: Its Nature and Significance in Current Generative Theory | 1975 | |
| W. Josh Ard | Raisings and Word Order in Diachronic Syntax, 6/75 (R. Stockwell, chair) | 1975 | |
| Margaret L. Press | A Grammar of Chemehuevi | 1975 | |
| Richard Ogle | Natural Order and Dislocated Syntax: An Essay in the History of Linguistic Ideas, 12/74 (G. Bedell, chair) | 1974 | |
| Tito N. Oviedo | Mood and Negotiation in Spanish Noun Clauses, 12/74 (R. Stockwell, chair) | 1974 | |
| Andrew Rogers | Physical Perception of Verbs in English: A Study in Lexical Relatedness | 1974 | |
| Lorian Baker | The Lexicon: Consideration for a Performance Model | 1973 | |
| Thomas J. Hinnebusch | Prefixes, Sound Change, and Subgroupings in the Coastal Kenyan Bantu Languages | 1973 | |
| Raymond Silverstein | Igala Historical Phonology, 9/73 (W. Welmers, chair) | 1973 | |
| Carol Pfaff | A Sociolinguistic Study of Black Children in Los Angeles, 9/73 (W. Bright, chair) | 1973 | |
| Joan Bybee Hooper | Aspects of Natural Generative Phonology, 8/73 (P. Schachter, chair) | 1973 | |
| Robert Rodman | The Study of Fuzzy Islands within the Framework of Transformational Generative Grammar | 1973 | |
| Georgette Silva | On Infinitival Complements: A Cross-Linguistic Study | 1973 | |
| John Davis | A Partial Grammar of Simplex and Complex Sentences in Luiseño, 6/73 (W. Bright, chair) | 1973 | |
| William Rutherford | Studies in Extra-Sentential Relations, 3/73 (R. Stockwell, chair) | 1973 | |
| Rosa Needleman | Thai Verbal Structures and Some Implications for Current Theory | 1973 | |
| Donald A. Burquest | A Grammar of Angas | 1973 | |
| Kay Atkinson King | Children’s Acquisition of Phonological Stress Contrasts | 1973 | |
| Russell G. Schuh | Aspects of Ngizim Syntax | 1972 | |
| Larry M. Hyman | A Phonological Study of Fe’fe-Bamileke | 1972 | |
| Laurence Horn | On the Semantic Properties of Logical Operators in English | 1972 | |
| Stephen D. Krashen | Language and the Left Hemisphere | 1972 | |
| Michael Kac | Formal Aspects of Semantic Representation, 8/72 (P. Schachter, chair) | 1972 | |
| Manjari Agrawal Ohala | Professor, San Jose State University | Topics in Hindu-Urdu Phonology | 1972 |
| Timothy Shopen | A Generative Theory of Ellipsis: A Consideration of the Linguistic Use of Silence | 1972 | |
| Marianne Celce-Murcia | A Syntactic and Psycholinguistic Study of Comparison in English, 3/72 (V. Fromkin, S. Thompson, chairs) | 1972 | |
| Lyle Campbell | Historical Linguistics and Quechean Linguistic Prehistory, 12/71 (W. Bright, chair) | 1971 | |
| Fraida Dubin | Language and Attitudes among Navajo Adolescents, 9/71 (W. Bright, chair) | 1971 | |
| Herbert F.W. Stahlke | Topics in Ewe Phonology | 1971 | |
| Kunio Okuda | Accentual Systems in the Japanese Dialects, 9/71 (G. Bedell, chair) | 1971 | |
| Charles M. Richards | A Case Grammar of Pampangan | 1971 | |
| Thomas H. Peterson | Moore Structure: A Generative Analysis of the Tonal System and Aspects of the Syntax | 1971 | |
| Ronald K.S. Macaulay | Aspect in English | 1971 | |
| Timothy Diller | Case Grammar and its Application to Waray, a Philippine Language | 1971 | |
| Jacquelyn DeMeire Schachter | Presuppositional and Counterfactual Conditional Sentences | 1971 | |
| Roxana Ma Newman | A Case of Grammar of Ga’anda | 1971 | |
| Timothy S.J. Smith | A Phonetic Study of the Function of the Extrinsic Tongue Muscles | 1970 | |
| Edward Fresco | Topics in Yoruba Dialect Phonology, 6/70 (V. Fromkin, W. Welmers, chairs) | 1970 | |
| Steven B. Smith | Generative Semantics, 5/70 (B. Partee, chair) | 1970 | |
| Soemarmo | Subject-Predicate, Focus-Presupposition, and Topic-Comment in Bahasa Indonesia and Javanese | 1970 | |
| Mangesh V. Nadkarni | NP-Embedded Structures in Kannada and Konkani | 1970 | |
| Frank W. Heny | Semantic Operations on Base Structures, 5/70 (B. Partee, chair) | 1970 | |
| Christiane Baltaxe | N.S. Trubetskoy and the Development of the Theory of Distinctive Features, 3/70 (J. Puhvel, chair) | 1970 | |
| Peter Menzel | Propositions, Events, and Actions in the Syntax of Complementation, 8/69 (B. Partee, chair) | 1969 | |
| Talmy Givón | Studies in Chibemba and Bantu Grammar | 1969 | |
| Harry A. Whitaker | On the Representation of Language in the Human Brain: Problems in the Neurology of Language and the Linguistic Analysis of Aphasia | 1969 | |
| Jacqueline Lindenfeld | A Transformational Grammar of Yaqui, 6/69 (W. Bright, chair) | 1969 | |
| John Ohala | Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley | Aspects of the Control and Production of Speech | 1969 |
| Purushottam J. Mistry | A Generative Syntax of Gujarati | 1969 | |
| Karen Courtenay | A Generative Phonology of Yoruba, 9/68 (V. Fromkin, W. Welmers, chairs) | 1968 | |
| John McKay | Free Adverbials in a Generative Grammar of German | 1968 | |
| Gerard Diffloth | The Irula Language, 4/68 (W. Bright, chair) | 1968 | |
| Kalon L. Kelley | Early Syntactic Acquisition, 8/67 (B. Partee, chair) | 1967 | |
| Kenneth C. Hill | A Grammar of the Serrano Language | 1967 | |
| Terence H. Moore | The Topic-Comment Functiuon: A Performance Constraint on a Competence Model, 5/67 (R. Stockwell, chair) | 1967 | |
| Paul Newman | A Grammar of Tera, 1/67 (P. Schachter, chair) | 1967 | |
| Chin Woo Kim | The Linguistic Specification of Speech | 1966 | |
| Mary Jeanette Johnson | Syntactic Structures of Tamazight | 1966 | |
| Deborah Ann Harding | The Phonology and Morphology of Chinyanja, 5/66 (W. Welmers, chair) | 1966 | |
| Charles S. Bird | Aspects of Bambara Syntax | 1966 | |
| Victoria A. Fromkin | Some Phonetic Specifications of Linguistic Units: An Electromyographic Investigation | 1965 | |
| Robert D. Wilson | Tree Derivation in Transformational Grammars, 2/65 (R. Stockwell, chair) | 1965 | |