Recent Alumni

Recent recipients of the PhD in Linguistics, by year of completion.

2007

Bonnie Jean Henson
The Phonology and Morphosyntax of Kol. Larry Hyman.
Esther Jane Wood
The Semantic Typology of Pluractionality. Andrew Garrett.
Fan-Pei Gloria Yang
Conditional Constructions in Mandarin: A Neural Explanation. Eve Sweetser.

Olga I. Gurevich
Constructional Morphology: The Georgian Version. Eve Sweetser (co-chair).
David R. Mortensen
Logical and Substantive Scales in Phonology. Sharon Inkelas (co-chair).
Pawel M. Nowak
Vowel Reduction in Polish. John J. Ohala.
Mary E. Paster
Phonological Conditions on Affixation. Andrew Garrett (co-chair).
Ryan K. Shosted
The Aeroacoustics of Nasalized Fricatives. John J. Ohala.
Kenneth Van Bik
Proto-Kuki-Chin. James A. Matisoff.

Tomoko Yamashita Smith
Affectedness Constructions: How languages indicate positive and negative events.. Eve Sweetser.
Makiko Takekuro
Attunement in interaction: Sequential use of Japanese honorifics. Robin T. Lakoff.
William F. Weigel
Yowlumne in the Twentieth Century. Leanne L. Hinton.

Rosemary Beam de Azcona
A Coatlan-Loxicah Zapotec Grammar. Leanne L. Hinton.
Melinda Y-C. Y-C. Chen
Speech Lost From Speech: The Cognitive Linguistics of Alienation, Objectification, and Reclaiming. Eve Sweetser.
Lisa J. Conathan
The Linguistics Ecology of Northwestern California: Contact, Functional Convergence and Dialectology. Andrew Garrett.
Paul G. Dudis
Depiction of Events in ASL: Conceptual Integration of Temporal Components. Eve Sweetser.
Sara Gesuato
Giving credit where credit is due: the case of acknowledgments in Ph.D. dissertations. John J. Ohala.
Josef K. Ruppenhofer
The luteraction of Valence and Information Structure. Charles J. Fillmore.
Galen Sibanda
Verbal Phonology and Morphology of Ndebele. Larry Hyman.

Laura Buszard-Welcher
Constructional Polysemy and Mental Spaces in Potawatomi Discourse. Richard A. Rhodes.
Richard Sterling Cook
Shuo Wen Jie Zi - Dianzi Ban: Digital Recension of the Eastern Han Chinese Grammaticon. James A. Matisoff.
Jeffrey Good
Strong linearity: Three case studies towards a theory of morphosyntactic templatic constructions. Larry Hyman.
Heather R. Jones
Cognitive Aspects of the Grammaticalization of Medieval Welsh Prepositions. Eve Sweetser.
Suzanne Wertheim
Linguistics purism, language shift, and contact-induced change in Tatar. Leanne L. Hinton.
Alan C.L. Yu
The Morphology and Phonology of Infixation. Sharon Inkelas.

Jonathan Barnes
Positional Neutralization: A Phonologization Approach to Ypological Patterns. Sharon Inkelas.
Matthew Juge
Tense and Aspect in Periphrastic Pasts: Evidence from Iberian Romance. Andrew Garrett.
Marvin Gould Kramer
Substrate Transfer in Sacramento Creole. John J. McWhorter.
Aimée Lahaussois
Aspects of the Grammar of Thulung Rai: an Endangered Himalayan Language. James A. Matisoff.
Julie Lewis
Social Influences on Female Speakers' Pitch. John J. Ohala.
Nurit Melnik
Verb-Initial Constructions in Modern Hebrew. Andreas Kathol.
Jason D. Patent
Are These Truths Self-Evident? Language, Culture and Human Rights in the U.S. and China. Eve Sweetser.
Paula Kadose Radetzky (Rogers)
The Functions and Evolution of Topic and Focus Markers. Eve Sweetser (co-chair).

Benjamin Bergen
Of sound, mind, and body: Neural explanations for non-categorical phonology. George P. Lakoff.
Leela Bilmes
Sociolinguistic Aspects of Thai Politness . Robin T. Lakoff.
Yoon-Suk Chung
Tough constructions in English: a Construction Grammar approach. Paul Kay.
Gunnar Hansson
Theoretical and Typological Issues in Consonant Harmony. Sharon Inkelas.
Darya Kavitskaya
Compensatory Lengthening: phonetics, phonology, diachrony. Sharon Inkelas.
Madelaine Plauché
Acoustic cues in the directionality of stop consonant confusions. John J. Ohala.
Rungpat Roengpitya
A Study of Vowels, Diphthongs, and Tones in Thai. John J. Ohala.

Susanne Gahl
A usage-based model of Aphasic Sentence Comprehension. Charles J. Fillmore.
Joshua S. Guenter
Vowels of California English before /r/, /l/, and /n/. John J. Ohala.
Michael Meacham
A Synchronic and Diachronic Functional Analysis of Hittite -ma. Gary Holland.
Kevin Ezra Moore
Spatial Experience and Temporal Metaphors in Wolof: Point of View, Conceptual Mapping, and Linguistic Practice. Eve Sweetser.