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

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The following dissertations have been written in recent years by students in the Graduate Group in Linguistics at Penn.

Baranowski, Maciej. (2006) Phonological Variation and Change in the Dialect of Charleston, SC

Das, Susan. (2006) The Banarasi Bhojpuri Verb System

Fox, Michelle. (2006) Usage-Based Effects in Latin American Spanish Syllable-Final /s/ Lentition

Han, Na-Rae. (2006) Korean Zero Pronouns: Analysis and Resolution

Malamud, Sophia. (2006) Semantics and Pragmatics of Arbitrariness

Romero, Sergio. (2006) Sociolinguistic Variation and Linguistic History in Mayan: The Case of K'ichee'

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

Lee, Alan. (2005) Tone Patterns of Kelantan Hokkien and Related Issues in Southern Min Tonology

Morton, Thomas. (2005) Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Change in El Palenque de San Basilio (Colombia)

Sanchez, Tara. (2005) Constraints on Structural Borrowing in a Multilingual Contact Situation

Tredinnick, Victoria. (2005) On the Semantics of Free Relatives With -Ever

Williams, Alexander. (2005) Complex Causatives and Verbal Valence

McFadden, Thomas. (2004) The Position of Morphological Case in the Derivation: A Study on the Syntax-Morphology Interface

Nakanishi, Kimiko. (2004) Domains of Measurement: Formal Properties of Non-Split/Split Quantifier Constructions

Creswell, Cassandre. (2003) Syntactic Form and Discourse Function in Natural Language Generation

Forbes, Katherine. (2003) Discourse Semantics of S-Modifying Adverbials

Kaiser, Elsi. (2003) The Quest for a Referent: A Crosslinguistic Look at Reference Resolution

Miltsakaki, Eleni. (2003) The Syntax-Discourse Interface: Effects of the Main-Subordinate Distinction on Attention Structure

Morse-Gagne, Elise. (2003) Viking Pronouns in England: Charting the Course of They, Their, and Them

Prasad, Rashmi. (2003) Constraints on the Generation of Referring Expressions, with Special Reference to Hindi

Schultz, John. (2003) Term Selection for Information Retrieval Applications

Snyder, Kieran. (2003) The Relationship Between Form and Function in Ditransitive Constructions

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, Megumi. (2002) A Quantitative Study of Accent Change and Variation in Tokyo Japanese: Focusing on Adjective and Nouns

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

Crist, Sean. (2001) Conspiracy In Historical Phonology

Henderson, Anita. (2001) Is Your Money Where Your Mouth Is?: Hiring Managers' Attitudes Toward African-American Vernacular English

Biassou, Nadia. (2000) The Neural Encoding Of Lexical Perception In The Human Cortex: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

Bowie, David. (2000) The Effect Of Geographic Mobility On The Retention Of A Local Dialect

Dimitriadis, Alexis. (2000) Beyond Identity: Topics in Pronominal and Reciprocal Anaphora

Kobayashi, Masato. (2000) Historical Phonology Of Old Indo-Aryan Consonants

Lee, Hikyoung. (2000) Korean Americans As Speakers Of English: The Acquisition Of General And Regional Features

Moisset, Christine. (2000) Variable Liaison In Parisian French

Pancheva-Izvorski, Roumyana. (2000) Free Relatives And Related Matters

Seidl-Friedman, Amanda. (2000) Minimal Indirect Reference: A Theory Of The Syntax-Phonology Interface

Bhatt, Rajesh. (1999) Covert Modality In Non-Finite Contexts

Doran, Christine. (1998) Incorporating Punctuation into the Sentence Grammar: A Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar Perspective

Han, Chung-Hye. (1998) The Structure and Interpretation of Imperatives: Mood and Force in Universal Grammar

Hockey, Beth. (1998) The Interpretation and Realization of Focus: An Experimental Investigation or Focus in English and Hungarian

Miller, Corey. (1998) Pronunciation Modeling in Speech Synthesis

Nevin, Bruce. (1998) Aspects of Pit River Phonology

Wagner, Laura. (1998) The Semantics and Acquisition of Time in Languge

Boberg, Charles. (1997) Variation and Change in the Nativization of Foreign (a) in English

Embick, David. (1997) Voice and The Interfaces of Syntax

Fought, Carmen. (1997) The English and Spanish of Young Adult Chicanos

Hong, Soonhyun. (1997) Prosodic Domains and Ambisyllabicity in Optimality Theory

Matossian, Lou. (1997) Burglars, Babysitters, and Persons: A Sociolinguistic Study of Generic Pronoun usage in Philadelphia and Minneapolis

Meyerhoff, Miriam. (1997) Be I No Gat': Constraints on Null Subjects in Bislama

Cote, Sharon. (1996) Grammatical and Discourse Properties of Null Agruments in English

Dayton, Elizabeth. (1996) Grammatical Categories of the Verb in African American Vernacular English

Huang, Shi-Zhe. (1996) Quantification and Predication in Mandarin Chines; A Case Study of Dou

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

Lee, Chang-Bong. (1996) Conditionals as a Discourse-Bound Entity: Pragmatics of Korean Conditionals

Nagy, Naomi. (1996) Language Contact and Language Change in the Faetar Speech Community

Chae, Seo-Young. (1995) External Constraints on Sound Change: The Raising of /o/ in Seoul Korean

Feng, Shengli. (1995) Prosodic Structure and Prosodically Constrained Syntax in Chinese

Kim, Jeong-Hwa. (1995) Linguistic Variation and Territorial Functioning: A Study of the Korean Honorific System

Lungstrum, Richard. (1995) Switch-Reference and the Structure of Lakhota Narrative Discourse

Matsuda, Kenjiro. (1995) Variable Zero-Marking of (0) in Tokyo Japanese

Turan, Umit. (1995) Null vs. Overt Subjects in Turkish Discourse: A Centering Analysis

Zubritskaya, Ekaterina. (1995) The Categorical and Variable Phonology of Russian

Auger, Julie. (1994) Pronominal Clitics in Quebec Colloquial French: A Morphological Analysis

Reynolds, William. (1994) Variation and Phonological Theory

Roberts, Julie. (1994) Acquisition of Variable Rules: (-t, d) Deletion and (ing) Production in Preschool Children

Fontana, Josep. (1993) Phrase Structure And The Syntax Of Clitics In The History Of Spanish.

Lee, Young-Suk. (1993) Scrambling As Case-Driven Obligatory Movement.

Maisel, Linda. (1993) Variation in (Q' Eqchi' Mayan): Four Compound Deictic forms and Their role in Structuring Discourse

Cameron, Richard. (1992) Pronominal and Null Subject Variation in Spanish: Constraints, Dialects, and Functional Compensation

Moser, Margaret. (1992) The Negation Relation: Semantic And Pragmatic Aspects Of A Relational Analysis Sentential Negation

Patrick, Peter. (1992) Linguistic Variation In Urban Jmaican Creole: A Sociolinguistic Study Of Kingston, Jamaica

Ball, Catherine. (1991) The Historical Development Of The It-Cleft

Belnap, Robert. (1991) Grammatical Agreement Variation In Carene Arabic

Haeri, Niloofar. (1991) Sociolinguistic Variation In Cairene Arabic: Palatalization And The Qaf In The Speech Of Men And Women

Heycock, Caroline. (1991) Layers Of Predication: The Non-Lexical Syntax Of Clauses.

Kauffman, Rosemary. (1991) Parking Court: A Linguistic Analysis Of Instrumental Adaptation To Addressee, Time, Adversary, And Identity

Pintzuk, Susan. (1991) Phrase Structures In Competition: Variation And Change In Old English Word Order.

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

Satyanath, Shobha. (1991) Variation And Change: (Daz) In Guyanese.

Veatch, Thomas. (1991) English Vowels: Their Surface Phonology And Phonetic Implementation In Vernacular Dialects

Zanuttini, Raffaella. (1991) Syntactic Properties Of Sentential Negation. A Comparative Study Of Romance Languages.

Herold, Ruth. (1990) Mechanisms Of Merger: The Implementation And Distribution Of The Low Back Merger In Eastern Pennsylvania.

Sabino, Robin. (1990) Towards a Phonology of Negerhollands: An Analysis of Phonological Variation.

Taylor, Ann. (1990) Clitics and Configurationality in Ancient Greek.

Tickoo, Asha. (1990) On Preposing and Word Order Rigidity.

Vallduvi, Enric. (1990) The Informational Component.

Santorini, Beatrice. (1989) The generalization of the verb-second constraint in the history of Yiddish

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