Graduate Alumni

This is a partial list of graduate masters and doctoral alumni from roughly the past decade and a half.

List Students Alphabetically | Dissertations by Year

Name	Grad Year	Thesis/Dissertation Title
Auger, Julie	1994	Pronominal Clitics in Quebec Colloquial French: A Morphological Analysis
Ball, Catherine	1991	The Historical Development Of The It-Cleft
Baranowski, Maciej	2006	Phonological Variation and Change in the Dialect of Charleston, SC
Belnap, Robert	1991	Grammatical Agreement Variation In Carene Arabic
Bhatt, Rajesh	1999	Covert Modality In Non-Finite Contexts
Biassou, Nadia	2000	The Neural Encoding Of Lexical Perception In The Human Cortex: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
Boberg, Charles	1997	Variation and Change in the Nativization of Foreign (a) in English
Bowie, David	2000	The Effect Of Geographic Mobility On The Retention Of A Local Dialect
Cameron, Richard	1992	Pronominal and Null Subject Variation in Spanish: Constraints, Dialects, and Functional Compensation
Chae, Seo-Young	1995	External Constraints on Sound Change: The Raising of /o/ in Seoul Korean
Charity, Anne	2005	Dialect Variation in School Settings Among African-American Children of Low Socioeconomic Status
Cieri, Christopher	2005	Modeling Phonological Variation in Multidialectal Italy
Conn, Jeffrey	2005	Of “Moice” and Men: The Evolution of a Male-Led Sound Change
Cote, Sharon	1996	Grammatical and Discourse Properties of Null Agruments in English
Creswell, Cassandre	2003	Syntactic Form and Discourse Function in Natural Language Generation
Crist, Sean	2001	Conspiracy In Historical Phonology
Das, Susan	2006	The Banarasi Bhojpuri Verb System
Dayton, Elizabeth	1996	Grammatical Categories of the Verb in African American Vernacular English
Dimitriadis, Alexis	2000	Beyond Identity: Topics in Pronominal and Reciprocal Anaphora
Doran, Christine	1998	Incorporating Punctuation into the Sentence Grammar: A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar Perspective
Embick, David	1997	Voice and The Interfaces of Syntax
Feng, Shengli	1995	Prosodic Structure and Prosodically Constrained Syntax in Chinese
Fontana, Josep	1993	Phrase Structure And The Syntax Of Clitics In The History Of Spanish.
Forbes, Katherine	2003	Discourse Semantics of S-Modifying Adverbials
Fought, Carmen	1997	The English and Spanish of Young Adult Chicanos
Fox, Michelle	2006	Usage-Based Effects in Latin American Spanish Syllable-Final /s/ Lentition
Haeri, Niloofar	1991	Sociolinguistic Variation In Cairene Arabic: Palatalization And The Qaf In The Speech Of Men And Women
Han, Chung-Hye	1998	The Structure and Interpretation of Imperatives: Mood and Force in Universal Grammar
Han, Na-Rae	2006	Korean Zero Pronouns: Analysis and Resolution
Henderson, Anita	2001	Is Your Money Where Your Mouth Is?: Hiring Managers' Attitudes Toward African-American Vernacular English
Herold, Ruth	1990	Mechanisms Of Merger: The Implementation And Distribution Of The Low Back Merger In Eastern Pennsylvania.
Heycock, Caroline	1991	Layers Of Predication: The Non-Lexical Syntax Of Clauses.
Hockey, Beth	1998	The Interpretation and Realization of Focus: An Experimental Investigation or Focus in English and Hungarian
Hong, Soonhyun	1997	Prosodic Domains and Ambisyllabicity in Optimality Theory
Huang, Shi-Zhe	1996	Quantification and Predication in Mandarin Chines; A Case Study of Dou
Kaiser, Elsi	2003	The Quest for a Referent: A Crosslinguistic Look at Reference Resolution
Karan, Mark	1996	The Dynamics of Language Spread: A Study of the Motivations and the Social Determinants of the Spread of Sango in the Republic of Central Africa
Karins, Arturs	1996	The Prosodic Sturcture of Latvian
Kauffman, Rosemary	1991	Parking Court: A Linguistic Analysis Of Instrumental Adaptation To Addressee, Time, Adversary, And Identity
Kim, Jeong-Hwa	1995	Linguistic Variation and Territorial Functioning: A Study of the Korean Honorific System
Kim, Ronald	2002	Topics in the Reconstruction and Development of Indo-European Accent
Kingsbury, Paul	2002	The Chronology of the Pali Canon: The Case of the Aorists
Ko, Eon-Suk	2002	The Phonology and Phonetics of Word Level Prosody and its Interaction With Phrase Level Prosody: A Study of Korean in Comparison to English
Kobayashi, Masato	2000	Historical Phonology Of Old Indo-Aryan Consonants
Kobayashi, Megumi	2002	A Quantitative Study of Accent Change and Variation in Tokyo Japanese: Focusing on Adjective and Nouns
Lee, Alan	2005	Tone Patterns of Kelantan Hokkien and Related Issues in Southern Min Tonology
Lee, Chang-Bong	1996	Conditionals as a Discourse-Bound Entity: Pragmatics of Korean Conditionals
Lee, Hikyoung	2000	Korean Americans As Speakers Of English: The Acquisition Of General And Regional Features
Lee, Young-Suk	1993	Scrambling As Case-Driven Obligatory Movement.
Lungstrum, Richard	1995	Switch-Reference and the Structure of Lakhota Narrative Discourse
Maisel, Linda	1993	Variation in (Q' Eqchi' Mayan): Four Compound Deictic forms and Their role in Structuring Discourse
Malamud, Sophia	2006	Semantics and Pragmatics of Arbitrariness
Matossian, Lou	1997	Burglars, Babysitters, and Persons: A Sociolinguistic Study of Generic Pronoun usage in Philadelphia and Minneapolis
Matsuda, Kenjiro	1995	Variable Zero-Marking of (0) in Tokyo Japanese
McFadden, Thomas	2004	The Position of Morphological Case in the Derivation: A Study on the Syntax-Morphology Interface
Meyerhoff, Miriam	1997	Be I No Gat': Constraints on Null Subjects in Bislama
Miller, Corey	1998	Pronunciation Modeling in Speech Synthesis
Miltsakaki, Eleni	2003	The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Effects of the Main-Subordinate Distinction on Attention Structure
Moisset, Christine	2000	Variable Liaison In Parisian French
Morse-Gagne, Elise	2003	Viking Pronouns in England: Charting the Course of They, Their, and Them
Morton, Thomas	2005	Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Change in El Palenque de San Basilio (Colombia)
Moser, Margaret	1992	The Negation Relation: Semantic And Pragmatic Aspects Of A Relational Analysis Sentential Negation
Nagy, Naomi	1996	Language Contact and Language Change in the Faetar Speech Community
Nakanishi, Kimiko	2004	Domains of Measurement: Formal Properties of Non-Split/Split Quantifier Constructions
Nevin, Bruce	1998	Aspects of Pit River Phonology
O'Malley Madec, Mary	2002	From the Centre to the Edge: The Social Contours and Linguistic Outcomes of Contact with English in an Irish Core and Peripheral Community
Pancheva-Izvorski, Roumyana	2000	Free Relatives And Related Matters
Patrick, Peter	1992	Linguistic Variation In Urban Jmaican Creole: A Sociolinguistic Study Of Kingston, Jamaica
Pintzuk, Susan	1991	Phrase Structures In Competition: Variation And Change In Old English Word Order.
Prasad, Rashmi	2003	Constraints on the Generation of Referring Expressions, with Special Reference to Hindi
Reynolds, William	1994	Variation and Phonological Theory
Roberts, Julie	1994	Acquisition of Variable Rules: (-t, d) Deletion and (ing) Production in Preschool Children
Romero, Sergio	2006	Sociolinguistic Variation and Linguistic History in Mayan: The Case of K'ichee'
Sabino, Robin	1990	Towards a Phonology of Negerhollands: An Analysis of Phonological Variation.
Sanchez, Tara	2005	Constraints on Structural Borrowing in a Multilingual Contact Situation
Santa Ana-Arriola, Otto	1991	Phonetic Simplification Processes In The English Of The Barrio: A Cross-Generational Sociolinguistic Study Of The Chicanos Of Los Angeles
Santorini, Beatrice	1989	The generalization of the verb-second constraint in the history of Yiddish
Satyanath, Shobha	1991	Variation And Change: (Daz) In Guyanese.
Schultz, John	2003	Term Selection for Information Retrieval Applications
Seidl-Friedman, Amanda	2000	Minimal Indirect Reference: A Theory Of The Syntax-Phonology Interface
Snyder, Kieran	2003	The Relationship Between Form and Function in Ditransitive Constructions
Taylor, Ann	1990	Clitics and Configurationality in Ancient Greek.
Tickoo, Asha	1990	On Preposing and Word Order Rigidity.
Tredinnick, Victoria	2005	On the Semantics of Free Relatives With -Ever
Turan, Umit	1995	Null vs. Overt Subjects in Turkish Discourse: A Centering Analysis
Vallduvi, Enric	1990	The Informational Component.
Veatch, Thomas	1991	English Vowels: Their Surface Phonology And Phonetic Implementation In Vernacular Dialects
Wagner, Laura	1998	The Semantics and Acquisition of Time in Languge
Williams, Alexander	2005	Complex Causatives and Verbal Valence
Zanuttini, Raffaella	1991	Syntactic Properties Of Sentential Negation. A Comparative Study Of Romance Languages.
Zubritskaya, Ekaterina	1995	The Categorical and Variable Phonology of Russian