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Spring '97 -- Student Coordinator: Rashmi Prasad

  • Maria Bittner, Rutgers University
  • Amadou Diop, Ecole Normale De Dakar (visiting U. of Georgia)
  • Friederike Moltmann ,-CUNY
  • Ken Safir, Rutgers University
  • Vivian Deprez, Rutgers University
  • Linda Lombardi, University of Maryland, College Park
  • John Singler, NYU
  • Fall '97 -- Student Coordinator: Jason Baldridge

  • Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland
  • Dorit Ben-Shalom, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
  • Carmen Fought, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Joshua Katz, Princeton
  • Ayako Tsuchida, Rutgers
  • William Snyder, University of Connecticut
  • Spring '98 -- Student Coordinator: Eleni Miltsakaki

  • Werner Winter, University of Kiel
  • Elena Anagnostopoulou, MIT
  • Howard Lasnik, University of Conneticut
  • Kathleen Hubbard, UC San Diego
  • Laura Benua, University of Maryland, College Park
  • John Charles Smith, University of Oxford
  • Irina Sekeria, IRCS
  • Piroska Csuri, Princeton
  • Fall '98 -- Student Coordinator: Ronald Kim

  • Jeffrey Lidz, IRCS
  • Redzisai Mashiri, U of Zimbabwe
  • Edwin Williams, Princeton
  • Hubert Truckenbrodt, Rutgers
  • Spring '99 -- Student Coordinator: Kimiko Nakanishi

  • Olga Miseska Tomic, University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
  • Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers
  • Bill Idsardi, University of Delaware
  • Marcelo Finger, University of Sao Paulo
  • Mark Baker, Rutgers
  • Colin Phillips, University of Delaware
  • Joe Eska, Virgina Tech University
  • John Kingston, UMASS
  • Fall '99 -- Student Coordinators: John Bell & Elsi Kaiser

  • Marcel den Dikken, City University of New York
  • Richard Kayne, New York University
  • Eric Bakovic, Penn State University
  • Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie-Mellon University
  • Satoshi Tomioka, University of Delaware
  • Eric Raimy, Swarthmore College
  • Spring '00 -- Student Coordinator: Amanda Seidl-Friedman

  • Antonella Sorace, University of Edinburgh
  • Andrea Calabrese, University of Connecticut
  • Roger Schwarzschild, Rutgers
  • Bob Ladd, University of Edinburgh
  • Rosalind Thornton, University of Maryland
  • Fall '00 -- Student Coordinator: Na-Rae Han

  • Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh
  • Joshua Katz, Princeton University
  • Mandy Simons, Carnegie Mellon University
  • James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University
  • John Alderete, Swarthmore College
  • Spring '01 -- Student Coordinator: Eva Banik

  • John Nerbonne, University of Groningen
  • David Lightfoot, University of Maryland
  • Kyle Johnson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Adamantios I. Gafos, New York University
  • William J. Idsardi, University of Delaware
  • Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University
  • Bruce B. Tesar, Rutgers University
  • Fall '01 -- Student Coordinator: Stephanie Winters

  • Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
  • Jay H. Jasanoff, Harvard University
  • Niloofar Haeri, Johns Hopkins University
  • Gregory R. Guy, New York University
  • Norvin Richards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Scott A. Schwenter, The Ohio State University
  • Luigi Burzio, Johns Hopkins University
  • Spring '02 -- Student Coordinator: Seung-yun Yang

  • Joao Costa, Universidade Nova in Lisbon
  • Roger Schwarzschild, Rutgers University
  • Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University
  • John Kingston, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Rajend Mesthrie, University of Capetown, S.Africa
  • Fall '02 -- Student Coordinator: Sergio Romero

  • Scott Kiesling, University of Pittsburgh
  • Tanya Reinhart, Tel Aviv University
  • Benjamin Bruening, University of Delaware
  • Christopher Kennedy, Northwestern University
  • Jean Pierre Koenig, State University of New York at Buffalo
  • John Huehnergard, Harvard University
  • Ronald Kim, Cornell University/University of Pennsylvania
  • Harold Schiffman, University of Pennsylvania
  • Spring '03 -- Student Coordinator: James Mesbur

  • Pietro Bortone, Princeton/Oxford
  • Uli Sauerland, Tuebingen/UMass
  • Charlotte Galves, State University of Campinas, Brazil
  • Rachel Reynolds, Drexel
  • Joe Pater, UMass Amherst
  • Suzanne Curtin, University of Pittsburgh
  • Fall '03 -- Student Coordinator: Sandhya Sundaresan

  • Geoffrey Pullum, University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC)
  • Shobha Sathyanath, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
  • William A. Ladusaw, University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC)
  • K. David Harrison, Swarthmore College and Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Spring '04 -- Student Coordinator: Lukasz Abramowicz

  • Richard Larson, Stony Brook University
  • Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh
  • Florian Coulmas, Duisburg University
  • Paul Garrett, Temple University
  • Alan Munn, Harvard University/Michigan State University
  • Dianne Jonas, Yale University
  • Fall '04 -- Student Coordinator: Sophia Malamud

  • Juergen Handke, Marburg University
  • William J. Idsardi, University of Delaware
  • Asya Pereltsvayg, Yale University
  • Paul Foulkes, University of York
  • Anders Holmberg, University of Newcastle
  • Roumyana Pancheva, University of Southern California
  • Lotfi Sayahi, State University of New York at Albany
  • Spring '05 -- Student Coordinator: Keelan Evans

  • Adele Goldberg, Princeton University
  • Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania
  • Steven Franks, Indiana University
  • Peter Barber, Oxford University
  • Alan Yu, University of Chicago
  • Delphine Dahan, University of Pennsylvania
  • Fall '05 -- Student Coordinator: Josh Tauberer

  • Daniel Everett, University of Manchester, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Paul Postal, New York University
  • Yael Sharvit, University of Connecticut
  • Louis Goldstein, Yale University
  • Robert Frank, Johns Hopkins University
  • Spring '06 -- Student Coordinator: Aviad Eilam

  • Jack Hoeksema, University of Groningen and Swarthmore College
  • Mark Aronoff, Stony Brook University
  • Paul de Lacy, Rutgers University
  • Peter Trudgill, University of Fribourg
  • Fall '06 -- Student Coordinator: Aviad Eilam

  • Jeff Lidz, University of Maryland
  • Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv University
  • Liina Pylkkaenen, New York University
  • Ellen Broselow, Stony Brook University
  • Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh
  • Spring '07 -- Student Coordinator: Kyle Gorman

  • Gregory Guy, New York University
  • Julie Legate, Cornell University
  • Rene Kager, Universiteit Utrecht.
  • Chris Potts, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Philomen Probert, University of Oxford
  • David Poeppel, University of Maryland [cancelled]
  • Fall '07 -- Student Coordinator: Kyle Gorman

  • Anna Szabolcsi, New York University
  • Chilin Shih, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Jane Grimshaw, Rutgers University
  • David Poeppel, New York University
  • Richard Kayne, New York University
  • Spring '08 -- Student Coordinator: Bob Lannon

    Fall '08 -- Student Coordinator: Bob Lannon

  • Barbara Bullock, Penn State University
  • Jason Kandybowicz, Swarthmore College
  • Sherry Ash, University of Pennsylvania
  • Natascha Mueller, Universitat Wuppertal
  • Veneeta Dayal, Rutgers
  • Joe Eska, Virginia Tech
  • Spring '09 -- Student Coordinator: Rebecca Marsh

  • Alec Marantz, New York University
  • Jelena Krivokapic, Yale University
  • Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University
  • Roumyana Pancheva, University of Southern California
  • Fall '09 -- Student Coordinator: Josef Fruehwald

  • Rena Torres Cacoullos, Pennsylvania State University
  • William Idsardi, University of Maryland
  • Raffaella Zanuttini, Yale University
  • Abigail Cohn, Cornell University
  • Paul Portner, Georgetown University
  • Thomas Roeper, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Spring '10 -- Student Coordinator: Marielle Lerner

  • John Coleman, Oxford University
  • Amy Stoller, The Stoller System
  • Nadia Biassou, NIH Clinical Center
  • Doug Whalen, Yale University
  • Ruth Kramer, Georgetown University
  • Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland
  • John Singler, New York University
  • Fall '10 -- Student Coordinator: Meredith Tamminga

  • Jonathan Bobalijk, University of Connecticut
  • Shigeto Kawahara, Rutgers University
  • Valentine Hacquard, University of Maryland
  • Juliette Blevins, CUNY, Graduate Center
  • Ricardo Otheguy, CUNY, Graduate Center
  • William Sakas, CUNY, Hunter College and Graduate Center
  • Spring '11 -- Student Coordinator: Yong-Cheol Lee

  • Jeffrey Heinz, University of Delaware
  • Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto
  • John Myhill & Dua'a Abu Elhija, Haifa University
  • Lisa Davidson, NYU
  • Satoshi Tomioka, University of Delaware
  • James Yoon, UIUC
  • Fall '11 -- Student Coordinator: Soohyun Kwon

  • Anat Ninio, The Hebrew Univerisity of Jerusalem
  • Aneta Pavlenko , Temple University
  • Taejin Yoon, McMaster University
  • Colin Wilson, Johns Hopkins University
  • Yoonjung Kang, University of Toronto
  • Spring '12 -- Student Coordinator: Jingjing Tan

  • Muffy Siegel, Temple University
  • Matt Wolf, Yale University
  • Alexander Williams, University of Maryland
  • Yi-Ting Huang, University of Maryland
  • Molly Diesing, Cornell University
  • Fall '12 -- Student Coordinator: Mao-Hsu Chen

  • Marit Westergard, University of Tromsø
  • Stephen Anderson, Yale University
  • Kristen Syrett, Rutgers University
  • Jeff Mielke, North Carolina State University
  • James Stanford, Dartmouth College
  • Marlyse Baptista, University of Michigan
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