Alumni | Linguistics

2024

KIM, SANGHEE
Humanities Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Dissertation: Encoding and retrieval of discourse structure during language comprehension

KURTZ, NAOMI
Humanities Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Dissertation: On the Loci and Timing of Case-Licensing: Insights from Microvariation in Galician

SELLAMI, ZEINEB
Humanities Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Dissertation: Agreement and Clitic Doubling in Arabic

SUGRUE, PAMELA
Senior Associate, CapitalOne
Dissertation: Influences on Irish Initial Consonant Mutations

2023

EREN, ÖMER
Humanities Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Dissertation: Morpho-syntactic variation in (Heritage) Laz

GRAY, SAM
Humanities Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Dissertation: To Sound Like Oneself: Transmasculine Vocal Change And Satisfaction on HRT

HEWETT, MATTHEW
Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University
Dissertation: Types of resumptive Ā-dependencies

LAM, DANIEL CHI DAT
Data Scientist at Prosodica
Dissertation: The encoding, maintenance and retrieval of complex linguistic representations

MARTINEZ DEL RIO , AURORA
Lead Manager of Data Implementation, Urban Initiatives
Dissertation: Repetition reduction across the Lexicon of American Sign Language

RAK, DIANE
Dissertation: Polysemy and Homonymy in the L2: Non-native Processing of Lexical Semantic Ambiguity

2022

GIANNOULA, ASIMINA
Dissertation: Evaluative and Polarity Morphology in Modern Greek

MCMAHAN, HILARY
Dissertation: Spatial deixis and the demonstrative system of Kalaallisut

RONAI, ESZTER
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Dissertation: Scales, alternatives, context: experimental investigations into scalar inference

STIGLIANO, LAURA
Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
Dissertation: The Silence of Syntax

SUN, YENAN
Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dissertation: Incompleteness Under Discussion

TABATOWSKI, MICHAEL
Program Assistant, Northwestern University
Dissertation: Preferring to learn: an attitudinal approach to polar questions

TRUONG, TRAN
Assistant Teaching Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Dissertation: Heterogeneity in morphological contiguity

2021

BURKHOLDER, ROSS
Affiliate Professor, Calvin University
Dissertation: The Proteus Effect in context: Evidence from a gaming community

CONNER, JANET
Assistant Professor, Leiden University
Dissertation: Making Welfare “Sustainable”: The Language, Politics, and Ethics of Scale-Making in a Norwegian Neighborhood

EDMISTON, DANIEL
Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services
Dissertation: Identifying Linguistic Structures in Continuous Spaces

ERMOLAEVA, MARINA
Dissertation: Learning Syntax Via Decomposition

HAKGUDER, EMRE
Data Scientist, Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Dissertation: Iconicity in Grammar: Typological Patterns in Sign Language Classifiers

LAI, JACKIE
Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong
Dissertation: The Nature of the Postverbal Field in Mandarin Chinese

LEE, JACKSON
Founder and Owner, Talkbit LLC
Dissertation: Morphological Paradigms: Computational Structure and Unsupervised Learning

2020

CISNEROS, CARLOS
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California Berkeley
Dissertation: Free Choice from Indiscriminacy: A Study of Free Choice Indefinites and Indiscriminatives in English and Cuevas Mixtec

GEIGER, JEFFREY
Information Architect, Grainger
Dissertation: Antecedence and context: Identity and nonidentity in verb phrase ellipsis and anaphoric deaccenting

KANTAROVICH, JESSICA
Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
Dissertation: Argument Structure in Language Shift: Morphosyntactic Variation and Grammatical Resilience in Modern Chukchi

LEWIS, ROBERT
Middle and High School Potawatomi Language Teacher, Hannahville Indian School / Nah Tah Wahsh PSA
Dissertation: Potowatomi Discourse Markers

MCELGUNN, HANNAH
Assistant Professor, Queen's University
Dissertation: Language at the Center of the Universe: An Ethnography of the Hopi Language

MEYER, CHERRY
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Dissertation: Noun Categorization in Ojibwe: Gender and Classifiers

PHILLIPS, JACOB
Information Architect, Grainger
Dissertation: Sibilant categorization, convergence, and change: The case of /s/-retraction in American English

2019

ERSHOVA, KSENIA
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
Dissertation: Syntactic Ergativity in West Circassian

GROVE, JULIAN
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Rochester
Dissertation: Scope-taking and presupposition satisfaction

MUNOZ, PATRICK
Assistant Instructional Professor, University of Chicago
Dissertation: On tongues: The grammar of experiential evaluation

WEAVER, CHRISTINA
Dissertation: A Multi-Generational Acoustic and Sociolinguistic Study of Emphasis in Turoyo

2018

APARICIO, HELENA
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Cornell University
Dissertation: The Psycholinguistics of Imprecision Calculation

HANINK, EMILY
Assistant Professor, Indiana University
Dissertation: Structural sources of anaphora and sameness

HORTON, LAURA
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dissertation: Conventionalization of Homesign Systems in Guatemala: Social, Lexical, and Morphophonological Dimensions

PAVLOU, NATALIA
Special Scientist in Linguistics, University of Cyprus
Dissertation: Morphosyntactic dependencies and verb movement in Cypriot Greek

SINGERMAN, ADAM
Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
Dissertation: Topics in the morphosyntax of Tupar´ı, a Tup´ıan language of the Brazilian Amazon

VARDOMSKAYA, TAMARA
Project Coordinator, Canadian Intellectual Property Office
Dissertation: Sources of Subjectivity

ZHANG, ANQI
Assistant Professor, Nanjing University
Dissertation: On Non-Culminating Accomplishments in Mandarin

2017

FRANICH, KATHRYN
Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Dissertation: The Interaction of Prominence, Rhythm, and Tone in Medʉmba

GRINSELL, TIMOTHY
Associate Lawyer at Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP
Dissertation: Semantic Indecision

PIETRASZKO, JOANNA
Assistant Professor, University of Rochester
Dissertation: Inflectional dependencies. A study of complex verbal expressions in Ndebele

2016

BELTRAMA, ANDREA
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: Bridging the Gap: Intensifiers between semantic and social meaning

CHATZIKONSTANTINOU, ANASTASIOS
Solutions Architect, DefinedCrowd Corp.
Dissertation: Prosodic and semantic processing of the Greek NPIs and other scalar terms

COPPESS, EMILY
Associate Data Scientist at Zurich North America
M.A. Thesis: Word order in two-verb constructions in Old English

HOLLE, JUAN BUENO
Assistant Professor, California State University-Sacramento
Dissertation: Documenting information structure in Isthmus Zapotec

SWAN, JULIA THOMAS
Associate Professor, San José State University
Dissertation: Examining the effects of linguistic and social information on perception: Evidence from /æ/ in the Pacific Northwest

2015

BAGLINI, REBEKAH
Assistant Professor, Aarhus University
Dissertation: Stative predication and semantic ontology: a cross-linguistic study

KANG, ARUM
Assistant Professor, Hankyong National University
Dissertation: (in)definiteness, disjunction and anti-specificity in Korean: a study in the semantics-pragmatics interface

MARTINOVIĆ , MARTINA
Assistant Professor, McGill University
Dissertation: Feature Geometry and Head-Splitting: Evidence from the morphosyntax of the Wolof clausal periphery

2014

KEANE, JON
Data Scientist, Mattersight
Dissertation: Towards an articulatory model of handshape: What fingerspelling tells us about the phonetics and phonology of handshape in ASL

KLECHA, PETER (PEET)
Software Engineer, GeistM
Dissertation: Bridging the Divide: Scalarity and Modality

LEHR, RACHEL
Research Fellow, Language, Legacy and Landey, Norwegian Philological Institute
Dissertation: A Descriptive Grammar of Pashai: The Language and Speech Community of Darrai Nur

2013

BOCHNAK, RYAN
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of British Columbia
Dissertation: Cross-linguistic Variation in the Semantics of Comparatives

DOMBROWSKI, ANDREW
MCAT Content Manager and Premium Tutor, Next Step Test Prep LLC
Dissertation: Phonological Aspects of Language Contact along the Slavic Periphery: An Ecological Approach

STARAKI, ELENI
Freelance Linguist-Researcher
Dissertation: Greek Modality

2012

CHATZOPOULOS, AIKATERINI
Dissertation: Negation and Nonveridicality in the History of Greek

GRANO, THOMAS
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Indiana University
Dissertation: Control and Restructuring at the Syntax-Semantics Interface

McNABB, YARON
Data Scientist, at Anchormen
Dissertation: The Syntax and Semantics of Degree Modification

METLAY, DONALD
Independent Consultant in Sign Language Linguistics
Dissertation: [take] and the ASL Verb Complex: An Autolexical Account

RIBEIRO, EDUARDO
Visiting Professor of Linguistics, Federal University of Pará, Brazil
Dissertation: A Grammar of Karaja

SLOTTA, JAMES
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation: On the receiving end: Cultural frames for communicative acts in post-colonial Papua New Guinea

SONDEREGGER, MORGAN
Associate Professor of Linguistics, McGill University
Dissertation: Phonetic and phonological dynamics on reality television

2011

BUNTING REBER, JACQUELINE
Associate Consultant at H5
Dissertation: Exploring Sranan Syntax: Expressions of unequal comparison in a Caribbean English Creole

SMITH, BENJAMIN
Assistant Professor of Human Development, Sonoma State University
Dissertation: Language and the Formation of Masculinity in Peruvian Aymara Boyhood

STRAUGHN, CHRISTOPHER
Assistant Professor; Continuing Resources and Metadata Librarian, Northeastern Illinois University
Dissertation: Evidentiality in Uzbek and Kazakh

WIER, TOM
Assistant Professor at Free University of Tbilisi
Dissertation: Georgian Morphosyntax and Feature Hierarchies in Natural Language

YOON, SUWON
Associate Professor of Linguistics at University of Texas, Arlington
Dissertation: 'Not' in the Mood: the Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Evaluative Negation

2010

ADAMS, NIKKI
Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland
Dissertation: The Zulu Ditransitive Verb Phrase

KIRBY, JAMES
Professor for Spoken Language Processing, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, University of Munich
Dissertation: Cue Selection and Category Restructuring in Sound Change

PAZ, ALEJANDRO
Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Scarborough
Dissertation: Discursive Transformation: The Emergence of Ethnolinguistic Identity among Latin American Labor Migrants and Their Children in Israel

SAWADA, OSAMU
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Mie University
Dissertation: Pragmatic aspect of scalar modifiers

2009

DAVIDSON, GREGORY
Dissertation: Modeling Laryngeal Asymmetries

DEBENPORT, ERIN
Associate Professor, Linguistic Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation: "Listen so you can live life the way it's supposed to be lived”: Paradoxes of text, secrecy and language at a New Mexico Pueblo’

LIU, FANG
Associate Professor, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading.
Dissertation: Intonation Systems of Mandarin and English: a Functional Approach

PARK, EUN-HAE
Dissertation: Indeterminate-based-Quantification and Expressive Content in Korean

STENSRUD, KJERSTI
Digital Content Manager at VisitOSLO
Dissertation: Aspects of Event Composition in Norwegian and English

2008

BOYLE, JOHN
Associate Professor of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno
Dissertation: Hidatsa Morpho-Syntax and Clause Structure

BULATOVIC, ANDJELKA
Modality, Futurity and Temporal Dependency: The Semantics of the Serbian Perfective Nonpast and Future

YAKUBOVICH, ILYA
Russian State University for the Humanities, Leading Researcher
Dissertation: Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Language

YUHARA, ICHIRO
Professor of English, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Dissertation: A Multimodular Approach to Case Assignment in Japanese: a Study of Complex Predicates and Stative Predicates

2007

BALL, CHRISTOPHER
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
Dissertation: Out of the Park: Trajectories of Wauja (Xingu Arawak) Language and Culture

GRUBER, MARY KATHERINE
Dissertation: A linguistic and ethnographic analysis of apology narratives performed in the context of federal sentencing hearings

FRANKLIN, AMY
Associate Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Dissertation: Liar Liar Hands on Fire: What Gesture-Speech Asynchrony Reveals About Thinking

ISHINO, MIKA
Dissertation: Metaphor and Metonymy in Gesture and Discourse

YOSHIMURA, KEIKO
Lecturer, Gunma Prefectural Women's University
Dissertation: Focus and Polarity: Even and Only in Japanese

2006

BILLINGS, SABRINA
Senior Lecturer of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
Dissertation: Speaking Beauties: Language Use and Linguistic Ideologies in Tanzanian Beauty Pageants

GRIFFITH, AARON
Assistant Professor of Languages, Literature and Communication, Utrecht University
Dissertation: Studies in Insular Celtic Historical Phonology and Morphology

KIMBARA, IRENE
Lecturer, Kushiro University, Hokkaido, Japan
Dissertation: A Study on Interpersonal Gesture Coordination in Interaction

LEE, JUNG-HYUCK
Formerly Associate Teaching Professor, University of Notre Dame
Dissertation: Individual-level ability and Stage-level ability in Korean and English

PARRILL, FEY
Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western University
Dissertation: Subjects in the hands of speakers: An experimental study of the relationship between syntactic subject and speech-gesture patterning in narrative discourse.

WATERFALL, HEIDI
Formerly a Visiting Scholar in Psychology, Cornell University
Dissertation: A little change is a good thing: Feature Theory, Language Acquisition, and Variations Sets

2005

MCCULLOUGH, KARL-ERIK
Dissertation: Using Gestures in Speaking: Self-generating Indexical Fields

NODA (FORMERLY REYNOLDS), SAEKO
Associate Professor, Tokyo Women's Medical University
Dissertation: A Multimodular Analysis of Japanese Quantifiers

SUSLAK, DANIEL
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, Indiana University Bloomington
Dissertation: The Future of Totontepecano Mixe: Youth and Language in the Mixe Highlands (Oaxaca, Mexico)

2004

HASTINGS, ADI
Former Assistant Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Iowa
Dissertation: Past Perfect, Future Perfect: Sanskrit Revival and the Hindu Nation in Contemporary India.

KAISER, DAVID
CEO at Dark Matter Consulting
Dissertation: Modeling Entailment Based Semantics in Polish Using Phases and Second Order Logic

OKRENT, ARIKA
Dissertation: From Meaning to words: an investigation of past tense verb inflection in English comparing a form to form mapping task with a meaning to form mapping task

WYSOCKI, TAMRA
English Language Programs Instructor and English Language Consultant at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Dissertation: Acoustic Analysis of Georgian Stop Consonants and Stop Clusters

SARKAR, PABITRA BHUSHAN
Dissertation: Segmental Phonology of Standard Colloquial Bengali (Submitted in Summer, 1975)

2003

CELIS, CHRISTOPHER
Dissertation: Linguistic Measurement of Proximity of Harm

HARA, DAISUKE
Professor at Toyota Technological Institute, Japan
Dissertation: A Complexity-Based Approach to the Syllable Formation in Sign Language

KOYAMA, WATARU
Professor of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University, Japan
Dissertation: Language and Its Double: A Critical History of Dialects, Languages, and Metalanguages in Japan

LOWENSTEIN, JOANNA
Research associate at the Eye and Ear Institute at the Ohio State University
Dissertation: Artificial hearing, natural speech: Cochlear implants, speech production, and the expectations of a high-tech society'

NEUVEL, SYLVAIN
Science fiction writer
Dissertation: Metamorphology: A word based account of polysynthesis and other multivalent morphological relations

SOGLASNOVA, SVETLANA
Slavic Cataloguing Supervisor, University of Toronto Libraries
Dissertation: Russian Hypocoristic Formation: A Quantitative Approach

2002

AUCOIN, MICHELLE
Dissertation: The Sociohistorical and Linguistic Development of African American English in Virginia and South Carolina

BEACH, WOODFORD
Senior Speech Pathologist, Virginia Commonwealth University
Dissertation: Dyspragmia in Wernicke's Aphasia and Alzheimer's Disease: An Investigation in Clinical Pragmatics

EGGERT, RANDY
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Utah
Dissertation: Disconcordance: The syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of or-agreement

HIGGINS, DERRICK
Data Science Manager, American Family Insurance, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: A Multimodular Approach to Model Selection in Statistical Natural Language Processing

MCNAIR-DUPREE, LISA
Research Associate and Associate Director in Writing & Technical Communication, the Ivan Allen College
Dissertation: Mill Villagers and Farmers: Dialect and Economics in a Small Southern Town

MIZUTA, YOKO
Associate Professor of Arts and Sciences, International Christian University
Dissertation: A Discourse-Semantic Analysis of Tense and Aspect in English and Japanese

PARGMAN, SHERI
Dissertation: Internal and External Factors in Language Change

SUZUKI, HISAMI
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Dissertation: Multi-modularity in Computational Grammar

VIECHNICKI, GAIL
Research Professor of Anthropology, George Washington University
Dissertation: Evidentiality in Scientific Discourse

VIECHNICKI, PETER
Strategic Analysis Manager and Data Scientist, Deloitte University Press
Dissertation: Composition and Granularity of Vowel Production Targets

2001

DAINORA, AUDRA
Principal, Ardent Design LLC, Cambridge, MA
Dissertation: An Empirically Based Probabilistic Model of Intonation in American English

GALUCIO, ANA VILACY
Senior researcher and Coordinator of the Human Sciences Department, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Brazil
Dissertation: The Morphosyntax of Mekens (TUPI)

MANNING, H. PAUL
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Trent University
Dissertation: Typology, History and 'Teratology': The rise and fall of the 'abnormal main clause with relative structure in P-Celtic

NTIHIRAGEZA, JEANINE
Associate Professor in Linguistics and Department Chair, Northeastern Illinois University
Dissertation: Quantity Sensitivity in Bantu Languages

OLSON, KENNETH
Senior Linguistic Consultant for SIL International
Dissertation: The Phonology and Morphology of Mono

2000

ANDERSON, GREGORY
President of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, nfp.
Dissertation: Language Contact in South Central Siberia

LIN, FU-WEN
Assistant Professor at Institute of Applied English, National Taiwan Ocean University
Dissertation: The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Dou and Ye in Mandarin Chinese

1999

DAVID, ANNE
Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Advanced Study of Language, University of Maryland
Dissertation: Comparative Study of Dravidian Infinitives

DENTON, JEANNETTE
Associate Professor of English, Baylor University
Dissertation: North and West Germanic Consonant Gemination: A Philological and Phonetic Reanalysis

DOBRIN, LISE
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia
Dissertation: Phonological Form, Morphological Class, and Syntactic Gender: The Noun Class Systems of Papua New Guinea Arapeshan - Vol. 1 & 2

FRANCIS, ALEX
Associate Professor at Dept. of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, Purdue University
Dissertation: Perceptual Learning, Attention and Phonetic Categorization

FRANCIS, ELAINE JONES
Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Linguistics Program, Purdue University
Dissertation: Variation within Lexical Categories

HEMPHILL, RACHEL
Dissertation: On the Perception/Production Interface in Speech Processing

HIRATA, YUKARI
Professor of Japanese, Colgate University
Dissertation: Acquisition of Japanese Rhythm and Pitch Accent by English Speakers - Vol. 1 & 2

HOTTA, SYUGO
Professor of Law, Meiji University School of Law
Dissertation: Multi-Dimensional Word Formation in Japanese

LUKA, BARBARA
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Bard College
Dissertation: Familiarity Breeds Consent: is Structural Facilitation Evidence for Implicit Knowledge of Syntactic Structures?

SINGER, KORA
Dissertation: Agreement: Cross-Linguistic Variation & Acquisition - Vol. 1 & 2

1998

GAYTAN, EDDY
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Chicago State University
Dissertation: The Study of Path: The Semantics of English and Spanish Dynamic Prepositions and Motion and Manner Verbs - Vol. 1, 2,3

LANE, LISA ANN
Dissertation: Emergence and Transformation of a Dialect: ThyborØnsk (Danish) - Vol. 1 & 2

MELNAR, LYNETTE
Dissertation: Caddo Verb Morphology

YUASA, ETSUYO
Associate Professor in Japanese, Ohio State University
Dissertation: Subordinate Clauses in Japanese

1997

CHERCHI, MARCELLO
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology, Northwestern University
Dissertation: A Study in Modern Georgian Morphosyntax: A Hierarchy-Based Analysis with Special Reference to ‘Indirect Verbs’ and ‘Passives of State’

1996

BELODED, OLGA R.
Tax counsel with Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
Dissertation: The Syntactic and Discourse-Functional Properties of WH-Questions in Russian

KIM, MICHAEL J.
Dissertation: The Tonal System of Accentual Languages

1995

BEALS, KATHARINE P.
Formerly Lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: A Linguistic Analysis of Verbal Irony - Vol. 1 & 2

CANAKIS, CONSTANTINE P.
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of the Aegean, Mytilene
Dissertation: Kai: The Story of a Conjunction - Vol. 1 & 2

COHN, RELLA ISRALY
Dissertation: Yiddish Given Names- A Lexicon

CREASON, STUART
Lecturer in Aramaic, University of Chicago
Dissertation: Semantic Classes of Hebrew Verbs: A Study of Aktionsart in the Hebrew Verbal System

NOSKE, MANUELA
Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
Dissertation: The Ternary Use of Distinctive Features: In Defense of the Number Three

TESTEN, DAVID
Dissertation: Asseverative la- Arabic and Related Semitic Particles

1994

KATHMAN, DAVID
Charter Financial Analysis with Morningstar, Chicago
Dissertation: The Morphosyntax of Complex Verb Agreement

KIM, KYUNGHWAN
Professor of English Language & Literature, Kyonggi University, Korea
Dissertation: The Syntax and Semantics of Causative Constructions in Korean - Vol. 1 & 2

VIDALI (FORMERLY SPITULNIK), DEBRA
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emory University
Dissertation: Radio Culture in Zambia: Audiences, Public Words, and the Nation State

UENO, YOSHIO
Professor at Center for English Language Education in Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
Dissertation: Grammatical Functions and Clause Structure in Japanese - Vol. 1 & 2

1993

BAGCHI, TISTA
Professor of Linguistics, University of Delhi, India
Dissertation: Clausal Subordination in Bangla: A Cross-Modular Approach

KITA, SOTARO
Professor of Psychology, University of Warwick, UK
Dissertation: Language and Thought Interface: A Study of Spontaneous Gestures and Japanese Mimetics

LARSON, GARY NEAL
Associate Professor of Communication, Wheaton College
Dissertation: Dynamic Computational Networks and the Representation of Phonological Information

1992

FARLEY, ANNE M.
Dissertation: Individual Variation in Phonological Development and Imitation

MILLER (NAUDÉ), CYNTHIA LYNN
Senior Professor, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
Dissertation: Reported Speech in Biblical and Epigraphic Hebrew: A Linguistic Analysis

SPROTT, ROBERT W.
Formerly associate pastor, St. Agnes of Bohemia Church in Chicago (d. 1998)
Dissertation: Jemez Syntax

WILTSHIRE, CAROLINE RIVES
Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Florida, Gainesville
Dissertation: Syllabification and Rule Application in Harmonic Phonology

1991

BOSCH, ANNA
Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Kentucky
Dissertation: Phonotactics at the Level of the Phonological Word

CASSELL, JUSTINE
Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation: The Development of the Expression of Time and Event in Narrative

CRIGGER, BETTE-JEAN
Dissertation: “A Man Is Better Than His Birth”: Identity and Action in Early Irish Law

GRACZYK, RANDOLPH J.
Pastor at St. Charles Parish, Pryor, Billings, Montana
Dissertation: Incorporation and Cliticization in Crow Morphosyntax

JIANG, ZI-XIN
Consultant at Accelovation
Dissertation: Some Aspects of the Syntax and Subject in Chinese

KROEBER, PAUL
Research Associate at the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University Bloomington
Dissertation: Comparative Syntax of Subordination in Salish

LEER, JEFFRY ALAN
Professor Emeritus of Alaska Native Languages and Linguistics, University of Alaska at Fairbanks
Dissertation: The Schetic Categories of the Tlingit Verb

SCHILLER, ERIC A.
Dissertation: An Autolexical Account of Subordinating Serial Verb Constructions

SCHMIDT, CHRISTINE
Dissertation: The Scrutability of Reference: Ostensive Naming in Caregiver-Child Interaction

1990

AGHA, ASIF
Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: Lexical Structure and Grammatical Categories in Lhasa Tibetan

BRENTARI, DIANE
Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago
Dissertation: Theoretical Foundations of American Sign Language Phonology

NUCKOLLS, JANIS B.
Professor of Linguistics, Brigham Young University
Dissertation: The Grammar and Images of Aspect in Lowland Ecuadorean Quechua

1989

HARLIG, JEFFREY
Writing Center Director, California State University, San Marcos
Dissertation: The Interaction of Verbal Aspect and Noun Phrase Determination in Hungarian

WHEELER, REBECCA S.
Professor of English and Linguistics, Christopher Newport University
Dissertation: The Lexical Entry of the English Verb Understand

1988

EISELE, JOHN
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, College of William and Mary
Dissertation: Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Time Reference in Cairene Arabic

GROSS, HAIA
Director ELP, University of Haifa, China
Dissertation: Morphological Opacity and Phonological Opacity in Verbal Paradigm of Modern Hebrew

MOSES, JUDITH
Formerly professor of German and ESL, Harold Washington College (d. 2006)
Dissertation: Language Acquisition and Natural Phonology [3 vols]

TUITE, KEVIN J.
Professor of Anthropology, University of Montreal
Dissertation: Number Agreement and Morphosyntactic Alignment in Kartvelian Languages

WELSH, CYNTHIA K.
Dissertation: Natural Kind Terms, Lexical Semantic Competence and Compositionality

ZIMMERMAN, ELLEN K.
Professor of Sociology, Framingham State University
Dissertation: Grammatical Categories and Sociocultural Variables in the English Hyderbad

1987

CHAMETZKY, ROBERT
Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Iowa
Dissertation: Coordination and the Organization of a Grammar

DEANE, PAUL
Research scientist at the Educational Testing Service
Dissertation: Semantic Theory and the Problem of Polysemy

FOWLER, GEORGE
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Culture, Indiana University Bloomington
Dissertation: The Syntax of the Genitive Case in Russian

KREIMAN, JODY E.
Professor-in-Residence of Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation: Human Memory for Unfamiliar Voices

LENGYEL, THOMAS EDWARD
Formerly researcher, American Humane Association
Dissertation: The Cultural Organization of Language in a Mayan Community

1986

CULLEN, JOHN
Dissertation: Truth and Reference in English Complementation

HENDRICK-KRUEGER, ROBERTA ANNE
Dissertation: The Verbal Category System of Cakchiquel Mayan

NA, YOUNG-HEE
Dissertation: Syntactic and Semantic Interaction in Korean: Theme, Topic and Relative Clause

RATLIFF, MARTHA SUSAN
Professor of Linguistics, Wayne State University
Dissertation: The Morphological Functions of Tone in White Hmong

RONDESTVEDT, KAREN
Formerly curator for Slavic & East European Collections, Stanford University Libraries
Dissertation: Definite/Indefinite in Early Slavic

1985

JEPSON, JILL
Professor of Anthropological Linguistics, St. Catherine University
Dissertation: Chinese Word Order: A Study of Language Acquisition and Linguistic Change

SCHIFFMAN [PASSONNEAU], REBECCA
Director of the Center for Computational Learning Systems (CCLS), Columbia University
Dissertation: Discourse Constraints on IT and THAT: A Study of Language Use in Career-Counseling Interviews

1984

CATON, STEVEN
Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Harvard University
Dissertation: Tribal Poetry as Political Rhetoric from Khawlan at Tival

HUCK, GEOFFREY
Assistant Professor of Writing, York University, Canada
Dissertation: Discontinuity and Word Order in Categorical Grammar

SUGIOKA, YOKO
Professor in the Department of Economics, Keio University
Dissertation: Interaction of Derivational Morphology and Syntax in Japanese and English

URCIOULI, BONNIE
Professor of Anthropology, Hamilton College
Dissertation: The Cultural Construction of Linguistic Variation

YOUNG, STEVEN
Associate Professor, Russian and Linguistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Dissertation: The Accentuation of Colloquial Lithuanian

1983

BARDOVI-HARLIG, KATHLEEN
Professor of Second Language Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
Dissertation: A Functional Approach to English Sentence Stress

HANKS, WILLIAM FRANCIS
Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: Deixis and the Organization of Interactive Context in Yucatec Maya

HOBERMAN, ROBERT DANIEL
Professor of Linguistics, Stony Brook University
Dissertation: Verb Inflection in Modern Arfamaic: Morphosyntax and Semantics

MANNHEIM, BRUCE
Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Dissertation: Structural Change and the Structure of Change: The Linguistic History of Cuzco Quechua in Relation to Its Social History

SMITH-STARK, THOMAS CEDRIC
Formerly Professor of Linguistics, El Colegio de México
Dissertation: Jilotepequeño Pocoman Phonology and Morphology

STEEVER, SANFORD
Editor at Irving Levin Associates, Inc
Dissertation: A Study in Auxiliation: The Grammar of the Indicative Verb System of Tamil

1982

FOX, SAMUEL ETHAN
Dissertation: The Structure of Morphology of Cairene Arabic

OJEDA, ALMERINDO EDUARDO
Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Davis
Dissertation: Some Constraints on Deletion

MAXWELL, JUDITH MARIE
Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics, Tulane University
Dissertation: How To Talk To People Who Talk Chekel 'Different': The Chuj (Mayan) Solution

ZIDE, ARLENE K.
Dissertation: Reconstruction of Sora-Juray-Gorum Phonology

1981

ERRINGTON, JAMES JOSEPH
Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
Dissertation: Changing Speech Levels among a Traditional Javanese Elite Group

FARKAS, DONKA FARNKEL
Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dissertation: Intensionality and Romance Subjunctive Relatives

FEDSON, VIJAYARANI JOTIMUTU
Dissertation: The Tamil Serial or Compound Verb

GALAMBOS, SYLVIA JOSEPH
Dissertation: The Position of Personal Pronouns in French: A Diachronic Perspective

GOODMAN, ANN
Dissertation: The Communicative Nature of Poetic Metaphor: A Study Based on the Work of Roman Jakobson & Kenneth Burke

JACOBSEN, WESLEY MARK
Professor of the Practice of Japanese Language, Harvard University
Dissertation: Transitivity in the Japanese Verbal System

MANASTER-RAMER, ALEXIS
Formerly Professor of Computer Science, Wayne State University and Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan
Dissertation: How Abstruse is Phonology?

1980

COLLINS, JAMES THOMAS
Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Northern Illinois University
Dissertation: The Historical Relationships of the Languages of Central Maluku, Indonesia

HOLISKY, DEE ANN
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, George Mason University
Dissertation: A Contribution of the Semantics of Aspect: Georgian Medial Verbs

KLAIMAN, MIRIAM HOLLY
Dissertation: Volitionality and Subject in Bengali: A Study of Semantic Parameters in Grammatical Processes

1979

GUILE, TIMOTHY CARL
Professor of Language Education, Meio University
Dissertation: Glide Obstruentization and the Syllable Coda Hierarchy

MUFWENE, SALIKOKO SANGOL
Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago
Dissertation: 'Semantic Field' Versus 'Semantic Class'

SINHA, ANJANI KUMAR
Professor Emeritus, University of Delhi
Dissertation: A Study in the Syntax and Semantics of Passives

VANCE, TIMOTHY JOHN
Professor, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Dissertation: Nonsense-Word Experiments in Phonology and Their Application to Rendaku in Japanese

1978

BRUCK, ANTHONY
Eckhardt Trading Company
Dissertation: Theoretical Considerations on Meaning-Changing Rules

FOX, JAMES A.
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Dissertation: Proto-Mayan Accent, Morpheme Structure Conditions, and Velar Innovations

FOX, ROBERT GRADY ALLEN
Professor of Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University
Dissertation: Individual Variability in Perception Vowels

HEATH, JEFFREY
Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan
Dissertation: Linguistic Diffusion in Arhnem Land

HIDALGO, ARCELI C.
Dissertation: The Connection Between Antecedent and Consequent in Tagalog Conditionals

O'GRADY, WILLIAM DELANEY
Professor of Linguistics, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Dissertation: Transitivity, Grammatical Relations and Voice in a Theory of Word-Base Grammar

ROSEN, HANNAH
Dissertation: The Neominal Expression of Verbally Expressible Contents--Studies in the Syntax of Verbal Noun in Early Latin

RUMSEY, ALAN LEE
Professor of Anthropology, Australian National University
Dissertation: A Grammar of Ungarinjin with Special Reference to the Structure Discourse

TAGASHIRA, YOSHIKO
Dissertation: Characterization of Japanese Compound Verbs

1977

PARAMASIVAM, K.
Dissertation: Effectivity and Causativity in Tamil

PENTHEROUDADKIS, JOSEPH E.
Seattle, Artist (& retired from Microsoft)
Dissertation: Referenced and Indefinite Descriptions in Modern Greek

1976

HAMMARBERG, ROBERT E.
Dissertation: Background of Modern Phonology

1975

ANDERSON, LLOYD
CEO Ecological Linguistics, Wash. DC
Dissertation: On Explaining Vowel Harmony, Especially in Finnish

COX, THOMAS
Dissertation: Summer Palatalization as Consonant Contraction: A Study of the "Second Palatization" in Old French

FRIEDMAN, VICTOR
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Linguistics and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
Dissertation: The Categories of the Indicative in Literary Macedonian

LeGRAND, JEAN E.
Dissertation: OR and ANY. The Semantics and Syntax of Two Logical Operators

LEVI, JUDITH
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Northwestern University
Dissertation: The Syntax and Semantics of Nonpredicating Adjectives in English

LINDHOLM, JAMES
Senior Lecturer in Tamil, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
Dissertation: Adverbial Complementation in Tamil

MUNDA, RAM DAYAL
Former Vice-Chancellor of Ranchi University
Dissertation: Linguistic Structures in the Vaisnava Songs of a Dialect of Bengali

REIGHARD, JOHN
Dissertation: The History of a Variable Rule: Syncope in Latin and Old French

ROBINSON, KIMBALL LOY
MPE Response Center Engineer, Hewlett-Packard
Dissertation: Generative Phonology and the Psychological Reality of Phonemenes

WEISER, ANN CAROL
Author and Seminar Leader in Inner Relationship Focusing, SF Bay Area
Dissertation: Conversational Stratagems: A Study in Pragmatics of Language

1974

FURBEE-LOSEE, LOUANNA
Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia
Dissertation: The Correct Languages Tojolabzl: A Grammar with Ethnographic Notes

SHAPIRO, MICHAEL
Professor of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington
Dissertation: Aspects of Hindi Abstract Verbal Syntax

1973

BECK, RICHARD
Professor of Law, New York Law School
Dissertation: Problems in Gothic Phonology

FISHER, WILLIAM M.
Dissertation: Towards the Reconstruction of Proto-Yucatec

LOVINS, JULIE BETH
Dissertation: Loan Phonology -- Subject Matter

MORGAN, JERRY
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation: Presupposition and Semantic Representation: Prolegomena

PERLMAN, ALAN MURRAY
Dissertation: Grammatical Structure and Style -- Shift in Hawaiian Pidgin and Creole

STAMPE, DAVID
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Dissertation: A Dissertation on Natural Phonology

1972

ADAMS, DOUGLAS Q.
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Idaho
Dissertation: A Phonological History of the Greek Verb

BERMAN, HOWARD
Dissertation: Stem Formation of Hittite Nouns and Adjectives

DAVISON, ALICE
Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Iowa
Dissertation: Performative Verbs Felicity Conditions and Adverbs

LARMOUTH, DONALD
Dissertation: Grammatical Change in American Finnish in Northern Minnesota: A Study of Linguistic Interference

NYGREN, CAROLYN JANE
Dissertation: Subject Matter--Language of Speech Therapists

RANKIN, ROBERT L.
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Kansas
Dissertation: Word Final High Vowels in Rumanian: Problems in Synchronic and Diachronic Dialectology

STRAIGHT, HENRY STEPHEN
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Linguistics, Binghamton University
Dissertation: Yucatec Maya Pedolectology: Segmental Phonology

1971

ALWAHAAB, ABBAS SADIK
Dissertation: Morphophonemes of Either the Iraqi or Modern Arabic Verb Phrase

1969

ANAMALI, ELAYAPERUMAL
Visiting Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago

Dissertation: Adjectival Clauses in Tamil

BAILEY, CHARLES-JAMES N.
Dissertation: Inflectional Pattern of Indo-European Nouns

BINNICK, ROBERT I.
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Toronto at Scarborough
Dissertation: Studies in the Derivation of Predicative Structures

DRACHMAN, GABERELL
Professor Emeritus, University of Salzburg
Dissertation: Twana Phonology

SCHIFFMAN, HAROLD
Professor Emeritus of Dravidian Linguistics and Culture, University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation: A Transformational Grammar of the Tamil Aspectual System

1968

ASSELIN, CLAIRE
Dissertation: Negation in French

DeARMOND, RICHARD C.
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University
Dissertation: Deverbal and Deadjectival Verb Derivations: Based on Russian and English

FASOLD, RALPH WILLIAM AUGUST
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Dissertation: Noun compounds in Thai