Recent Alumni and Downloadable Dissertations
Recent recipients of the PhD in Linguistics, by year of completion.
2009
- Andrew Dolbey. BioFrameNet: a FrameNet Extension to the Domain of Molecular Biology. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
- Molly E. Babel. Phonetic and Social Selectivity in Speech Accommodation. Advisor: Keith Johnson.
- Jenny S. Lederer. Understanding the Self: The Distribution of Anaphora within Prepositional Phrases. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
- Samuel E. Tilsen. Hierarchical spatiotemporal dynamics of speech rhythm and articulation. Advisor: Keith Johnson.
2008
- Gabriela Caballero. Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) Phonology and Morphology. Advisor: Andrew Garrett.
- Christian Dicanio. The Phonetics and Phonology of San Martín Itunyoso Trique. Advisor: Keith Johnson.
- Marc Ettlinger. Input-driven Opacity. Advisor: Keith Johnson.
- Nicholas Fleisher. Adjectives and Infinitives in Composition. Advisor: Line Mikkelsen.
- Yuni Kim. Topics in the Phonology and Morphology of San Francisco del Mar Huave. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.
- Anne Pycha. Morphological Sources of Phonological Length. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.
2007
- Bonnie Jean Henson. The Phonology and Morphosyntax of Kol. Advisor: Larry Hyman.
- Wesley Y. Leonard. Miami Language Reclamation in the Home: A Case Study. Advisor: Leanne Hinton.
- Karen S. Sullivan. Grammar in Metaphor: A Construction Grammar Account of Metaphoric Language. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
- Esther Jane Wood. The Semantic Typology of Pluractionality. Advisor: Andrew Garrett.
- Fan-Pei Gloria Yang. Conditional Constructions in Mandarin: A Neural Explanation. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
2006
- Olga I. Gurevich. Constructional Morphology: The Georgian Version. Co-advisors: Eve Sweetser and James Blevins.
- David R. Mortensen. Logical and Substantive Scales in Phonology. Co-advisors: Sharon Inkelas and James A. Matisoff.
- Pawel M. Nowak. Vowel Reduction in Polish. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
- Mary E. Paster. Phonological Conditions on Affixation. Co-advisors: Andrew Garrett and Sharon Inkelas.
- Ryan K. Shosted. The Aeroacoustics of Nasalized Fricatives. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
- Kenneth Van Bik. Proto-Kuki-Chin. Advisor: James A. Matisoff.
2005
- Tomoko Yamashita Smith. Affectedness Constructions: How languages Indicate Positive and Negative Events. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
- Makiko Takekuro. Attunement in interaction: Sequential use of Japanese honorifics. Advisor: Robin T. Lakoff.
- William F. Weigel. Yowlumne in the Twentieth Century. Advisor: Leanne L. Hinton.
2004
- Rosemary Beam de Azcona. A Coatlan-Loxicah Zapotec Grammar. Advisor: Leanne L. Hinton.
- Melinda Y-C. Chen. Speech Lost From Speech: The Cognitive Linguistics of Alienation, Objectification, and Reclaiming. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
- Lisa J. Conathan. The Linguistic Ecology of Northwestern California: Contact, Functional Convergence and Dialectology. Advisor: Andrew Garrett.
- Paul G. Dudis. Depiction of Events in ASL: Conceptual Integration of Temporal Components. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
- Sara Gesuato. Giving Credit where Credit is Due: the Case of Acknowledgments in Ph.D. Dissertations. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
- Josef K. Ruppenhofer. The Interaction of Valence and Information Structure. Advisor: Charles J. Fillmore.
- Galen Sibanda. Verbal Phonology and Morphology of Ndebele. Advisor: Larry Hyman.
2003
- Laura Buszard-Welcher. Constructional Polysemy and Mental Spaces in Potawatomi Discourse. Advisor: Richard A. Rhodes.
- Richard Sterling Cook. Shuo Wen Jie Zi - Dianzi Ban: Digital Recension of the Eastern Han Chinese Grammaticon. Advisor: James A. Matisoff.
- Jeffrey Good. Strong Linearity: Three Case Studies Towards a Theory of Morphosyntactic Templatic Constructions. Advisor: Larry Hyman.
- Heather R. Jones. Cognitive Aspects of the Grammaticalization of Medieval Welsh Prepositions. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
- Suzanne Wertheim. Linguistics Purism, Language Shift, and Contact-Induced Change in Tatar. Advisor: Leanne L. Hinton.
- Alan C.L. Yu. The Morphology and Phonology of Infixation. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.
2002
- Jonathan Barnes. Positional Neutralization: A Phonologization Approach to Typological Patterns. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.
- Matthew Juge. Tense and Aspect in Periphrastic Pasts: Evidence from Iberian Romance. Advisor: Andrew Garrett.
- Marvin Gould Kramer. Substrate Transfer in Sacramento Creole. Advisor: John J. McWhorter.
- Aimée Lahaussois. Aspects of the Grammar of Thulung Rai: an Endangered Himalayan Language. Advisor: James A. Matisoff.
- Julie Lewis. Social Influences on Female Speakers' Pitch. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
- Nurit Melnik. Verb-Initial Constructions in Modern Hebrew. Advisor: Andreas Kathol.
- Jason D. Patent. Are These Truths Self-Evident? Language, Culture and Human Rights in the U.S. and China. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
- Paula Kadose Radetzky (Rogers). The Functions and Evolution of Topic and Focus Markers. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
2001
- Benjamin Bergen. Of sound, mind, and body: Neural explanations for non-categorical phonology. Advisor: George P. Lakoff.
- Leela Bilmes. Sociolinguistic Aspects of Thai Politness. Advisor: Robin T. Lakoff.
- Yoon-Suk Chung. Tough constructions in English: a Construction Grammar approach. Advisor: Paul Kay.
- Gunnar Hansson. Theoretical and Typological Issues in Consonant Harmony. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.
- Darya Kavitskaya. Compensatory Lengthening: phonetics, phonology, diachrony. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.
- Madelaine Plauché. Acoustic cues in the directionality of stop consonant confusions. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
- Rungpat Roengpitya. A Study of Vowels, Diphthongs, and Tones in Thai. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
2000
- Susanne Gahl. A Usage-based Model of Aphasic Sentence Comprehension. Advisor: Charles J. Fillmore.
- Joshua S. Guenter. Vowels of California English before /r/, /l/, and /n/. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
- Michael Meacham. A Synchronic and Diachronic Functional Analysis of Hittite -ma. Advisor: Gary Holland.
- Kevin Ezra Moore. Spatial Experience and Temporal Metaphors in Wolof: Point of View, Conceptual Mapping, and Linguistic Practice.Advisor: Eve Sweetser.