PHD ALUMNI

(There's also an Alphabetical List.)

2008-09

Doug Ball --
Temporary Assistant Professor, Department of English and Linguistics, Truman State University
Dissertation: Clause Structure and Argument Realization in Tongan

Elizabeth Coppock --
Member of the Technical Staff, Cycorp, Inc.
Dissertation: The Logical and Empirical Foundations of Baker's Paradox

Iván García Álvarez --
Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Languages, University of Salford, UK.
Dissertation: Generality and Exception: A Study in the Semantics of Exceptives

Lauren Hall-Lew --
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford
Dissertation: Ethnicity and Phonetic Variation in a San Francisco Neighborhood

Elisabeth Norcliffe --
Dissertation: Head Marking in Usage and Grammar: A Study of Variation and Change in Yucatec Maya

Laura Staum Casasanto --
Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen.
Dissertation: Experimental Investigations of Sociolinguistic Knowledge

2007-08

Philip Hofmeister --
Postdoctoral Researcher, CRL, University of California, San Diego.
Dissertation: Representational Complexity and Memory Retrieval in Language Comprehension

Dmitry Levinson
Dissertation: Licensing of Negative Polarity Particles yet, anymore, either, and neither: Combining Downward Monotonicity and Assertivity

Tatiana Nikitina --
ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipient Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University.
Dissertation: The Mixing of Syntactic Properties and Language Change

Neal Snider --
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester.
Dissertation: An Exemplar Model of Syntactic Priming

2006-07

Bruno Estigarribia --
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, UNC Chapel Hill.
Dissertation: Asking questions: Language Variation and Language Acquisition

Itamar Francez --
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago.
Dissertation: Existential Propositions

Andrew Koontz-Garboden --
Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester.
Dissertation: States, Changes of State, and the Monotonicity Hypothesis

2005-06

Luc Vartan Baronian --
Assistant Professor, University of Quebec, Chicoutimi.
Dissertation: North of Phonology

John Travis Beavers --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin.
Dissertation: Argument/Oblique Alternations and the Structure of Lexical Meaning

Lev Blumenfeld --
Assistant Professor, School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies, Carleton University.
Dissertation: Constraints on Phonological Interactions

Kathryn Campbell-Kibler --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University.
Dissertation: Listener Perceptions of Sociolinguistic Variables: The Case of (ING)

Ashwini Deo --
Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department, Yale University.
Dissertation: Tense and Aspect in Indo-Aryan: Variation and Diachrony

Tim Florian Jaeger --
Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Science Department, University of Rochester.
Dissertation: Redundancy and Syntactic Reduction in Spontaneous Speech

Arman Maghbouleh
President, Cariden Technologies, Inc.
Dissertation: Intonation Recognition Models Based on Convex Optimizations

David Oshima --
Assistant Professor, Ibaraki Unviersity
Dissertation: Perspectives in Reported Discourse

Rob Podesva --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University.
Dissertation: Phonetic Detail in Sociolinguistic Variation

Mary Rose --
Postdoctoral Fellow, Linguistics Department, Ohio State University.
Dissertation: Language, Place and Identity in Later Life

Julie Sweetland --
Research Specialist, Center for Inspired Teaching, Washington, DC.
Dissertation: Teaching Writing in the African American Classroom: A Sociolinguistic Approach

Judith Tonhauser --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University.
Dissertation: The Temporal Semantics of Noun Phrases: Evidence from Guaraní

2004-05

Veronica Gerassimova --
Dissertation: Unbounded Dependency Constructions in Western Austronesian

Roger Levy --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, UCSD.
Dissertation: Probabilistic Models of Word Order and Syntactic Discontinuity

Jean-Philippe Marcotte --
Assistant Professor, Linguistics Program, University of Minnesota.
Dissertation: Causative Alternation Errors in Child Language Acquisition

Sarah J. Roberts --
Dissertation: The Emergence of Hawai'i Creole English in the Early 20th Century: The Sociohistorical Context of Creole Genesis

Shiao-Wei Tham --
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Literature Program, Wellesley College
Dissertation: Representing Possessive Predication: Semantic Dimensions and Pragmatic Bases

2003-04

Ash Asudeh --
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Dissertation: Resumption as Resource Management

Sarah Benor --
Assistant Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles.
Dissertation: Second Style Acquisition: The Linguistic Socialization of Newly Orthodox Jews

Brady Clark --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern.
Dissertation: A Stochastic Optimality Theory Approach to Syntactic Change

Cathryn Donohue --
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno.
Dissertation: Morphology Matters: Case Licensing in Basque

Hee-Sun Kim --
Coordinator and Lecturer, Korean Language Program, Stanford University.
Dissertation: The Use of Multiple Sources of Information in Korean Sentence Processing

Jacquelyn Rahman --
Assistant Professor, Interim Director of Linguistics Program, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, Ohio.
Dissertation: It's a Serious Business: The Construction of Middle-class White Characters by African American Narrative Comedians

2002-03

Devyani Sharma --
Lecturer, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary, University of London.
Dissertation: Structural and Social Constraints on Non-native Varieties of English

Andrew Wong
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, California State University, East Bay.
Dissertation: Tongzhi, Ideologies, and Semantic Change

2001-02

Martina Theresia Faller --
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester.
Dissertation: Semantics and Pragmatics of Evidentials in Cuzco Quechua

John Stephen Fry --
Lecturer, Linguistics Department, San Jose State University.
Dissertation: Ellipsis and Wa-marking in Japanese Conversation

Stefan Heinz Kaufmann --
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University.
Dissertation: Aspects of the Meaning and Use of Conditionals

Michael Thomas Wescoat --
Lecturer, Linguistics Department, UC Davis.
Dissertation: On Lexical Sharing

2000-01

Makin McDaid Abdulkhaliq --
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, CoStar Group.
Dissertation: English Noun Classes and Generative Lexical Mechanisms

Emily Menon Bender --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Washington.
Dissertation: Syntactic Variation and Linguistic Competence: The Case of AAVE Copula Absence

Hanjung Lee --
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University.
Dissertation: Optimization in Argument Expression and Interpretation: A Unified Approach

David Alexander McKercher --
Continuing Sessional Instructor, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Dissertation: The Polysemy of with in First Language Acquisition

Eunjin Oh --
Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea.
Dissertation: Non-Native Coarticulation: The Case of Consonant-Vowel Syllables

Susanne Zalta Riehemann --
Research Linguist, Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International.
Dissertation: A Constructional Approach to Idioms and Word Formation

Ida Elisabet Toivonen --
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Dissertation: The Phrase-Structure of Non-Projecting Words

Qing Zhang --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin.
Dissertation: Changing Economy, Changing Markets: A Sociolinguistic Study of Chinese Yuppies

1999-2000

Yukiko Morimoto --
Researcher, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) & Humboldt University, Berlin.
Dissertation: Discourse Configurationality in Bantu Morphosyntax

1998-99

Julie Solomon --
Senior Research Associate and Director of Training Support, Sociometrics Corporation.
Dissertation: Phonological and Syntactic Variation in the Spanish of Valladolid, Yucatan

Brett L. Kessler --
Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Washington University in St. Louis.
Dissertation: Estimating the Probability of Historical Connections Between Languages

1997-98

Arto Tapani Anttila --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University.
Dissertation: Variation in Finnish Phonology and Morphology

Jennifer E. Arnold --
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, UNC Chapel Hill.
Dissertation: Reference Form and Discourse Patterns

Bradley Cahn Davidson --
Vice President, Client Services, Adelphi Inc.
Dissertation: Interpreting Medical Discourse: A Study of Cross-Linguistic Communication in the Hospital Clinic

Martha Swearingen Davis
Associate Professor, English Dept., University of the District of Columbia.
Dissertation: A Syntactic, Semantic and Diachronic Analysis of Palenquero BA

Vivienne Funn Fong --
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University.
Dissertation: The Order of Things: What Directional Locatives Denote

Robert P. Malouf --
Assistant Professor, San Diego State University.
Dissertation: Mixed Categories in the Hierarchical Lexicon

Rachel Nordlinger --
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne.
Dissertation: Constructive Case: Dependent-Marking Nonconfigurationality in Australia

Scott A. Schwenter --
Associate Professor, Ohio State University.
Dissertation: The Pragmatics of Conditional Marking: Implicature, Scalarity, and Exclusivity

Chang Yong Sohn --
Seoul National University, Korea.
Dissertation: The Metrical Structure of Beowulf

1996-97

Renee Allison Blake --
Associate Professor, NYU.
Dissertation: All O' We Is One? Race, Class, and Language in a Barbados Community

Hye-Won Choi --
Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Ewha Womans University, Korea.
Dissertation: Optimizing Structure in Context: Scrambling and Information Structure

Anthony Ruiz Davis --
Senior Linguist, StreamSage Inc. in Washington, DC.
Dissertation: Lexical Semantics and Linking in the Hierarchical Lexicon

Yookyung Kim --
Principal Research Scientist, Fluential Inc. Sunnyvale, CA.
Dissertation: A Situation Semantic Account of Existential Sentences

Charles Chieh-li Lee --
Assistant Professor, Christ's College, Taiwan.
Dissertation: The Human Sentence Processor: Memory Structure and Accessibility

Norma Mendoza-Denton --
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona.
Dissertation: Chicana/Mexicana Identity and Linguistic Variation: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistics Study of Gang Affiliation in an Urban High School

Hadar Shemtov --
Research Scientist, Palo Alto Research Center.
Dissertation: Ambiguity Management in Natural Language Generation

1995-96

Elizabeth Owen Bratt --
Researcher, CSLI, Stanford.
Dissertation: Argument Composition and the Lexicon: Lexical and Periphrastic Causatives in Korean

Rudolf Pell Gaudio --
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Purchase.
Dissertation: Men Who Talk Like Women: Language, Gender, and Sexuality in Hausa Muslim Society

Hinrich Schuetze --
Professor of Theoretical Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart.
Dissertation: Ambiguity in Language Learning Computional and Cognitive Models

1994-95

Lynn Cherny --
Software Interaction Designer, Ghostweather.
Dissertation: The Mud Register: Conversational Modes of Action in a Text-Based Virtual Reality

Jennifer Ann Cole --
Assistant (Assistant Professor), Universität Konstanz.
Dissertation: The Prosodic Domain Hierarchy in Reduplication

Richard Byrd Dasher --
Executive Director, Center for Integrated Systems and Director, US-Japan Management Program, Stanford University.
Dissertation: Grammaticalization in the System of Japanese Predicate Honorifics

Daniel Dor
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University.
Dissertation: An Epistemically-Based Analysis of Lexical Selection

Jong-Bok Kim --
Associate Professor, Kyung-Hee University.
Dissertation: The Grammar of Negation: A Lexicalist, Constraint-Based Perspective

Christopher D. Manning --
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics, Stanford University.
Dissertation: Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations

Christopher Jude Piñón --
Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
Dissertation: An Ontology for Event Semantics

Whitney Tabor --
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut.
Dissertation: Syntactic Innovation: A Connectionist Model

1993-94

Eunjoo Han
Seoul Women's University, Korea.
Dissertation: Prosodic Structure in Compounds

Makoto Kanazawa --
Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics.
Dissertation: Learnable Classes of Categorial Grammars

Bonnie McElhinny --
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto.
Dissertation: We All Wear the Blue: Language, Gender and Police Work

Kurt Jonathan Queller
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Idaho.
Dissertation: Scheming and Manipulating: How Phonological Structure Emerges Out of the Child's Manipulation of Output Lexical Form

Gillian C. Ramchand --
Associate Professor, Institute for Linguistics, University of Tromsoe, Norway.
Dissertation: Aspect and Argument Structure in Modern Scottish Gaelic

Trisha Ann Svaib --
Group Product Marketing Manager for the School Division of The Learning Company.
Dissertation: "Twice Upon a Time": A Deaf Child's Development of Narrative Structure

Linda Ann N. Uyechi
Lecturer, Department of Music, Stanford University.
Dissertation: The Geometry of Visual Phonology

1992-93

Alexandre Alsina --
Associate Professor (Professor titular d'universitat), Department de Traduccio i Filologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Dissertation: Predicate Composition: A Theory of Syntactic Function Alternations

Miriam Jessica Butt --
Professor, University of Konstanz.
Dissertation: The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu

Masayo Iida --
Senior Researcher, Yahoo, Inc.
Dissertation: Context and Binding in Japanese

Tracy Holloway King --
Research Scientist, Palo Alto Research Center.
Dissertation: Configuring Topic and Focus in Russian

Michael Vincent Inman --
Senior Linguist, Sehda, Inc., Menlo Park, California.
Dissertation: Semantics and Pragmatics of Colloquial Sinhala Involitive Verbs

Smita Joshi --
Senior Technical Writer, Infospace.
Dissertation: Selection of Grammatical and Logical Functions in Marathi

Yo Matsumoto --
Professor, Dept of Linguistics, Kobe University, Japan.
Dissertation: On the Wordhood of Complex Predicates in Japanese

John Hamilton McWhorter, V --
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute.
Dissertation: Toward a New Model of Genesis: Competing Processes in the Birth of Saramaccan Creole

Shuichi Yatabe --
Associate Professor, University of Tokyo.
Dissertation: Scrambling in Japanese Phrase Structure

1991-92

Lubna Alsagoff --
Director, Curriculum & Research, Educom Pte Ltd, Singapore.
Dissertation: Topic in Malay: The Other Subject

Jonathan Ginzburg --
Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, King's College, London.
Dissertation: Questions, Queries and Facts: A Semantics and Pragmatics for Interrogatives

Aaron Halpern
Research Scientist, Celera.
Dissertation: Topics in the Placement and Morphology of Clitics

Andras Kornai --
Chief Scientist, Metacarta.
Dissertation: Formal Phonology

Paul R. Kroeger --
Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington.
Dissertation: Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog

John C. Paolillo --
Associate Professor, SLIS and Informatics, Indiana University.
Dissertation: Functional Articulation in Diglossia: A Case Study of Grammatical and Social Correspondences in Sinhala

Henry Edward Smith --
Professor, Yale Law School.
Dissertation: Restrictiveness in Case Theory

Fu Tan --
Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages. San Jose State University.
Dissertation: Notion of Subject in Chinese

Stephen Mark Wechsler --
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, Austin.
Dissertation: Argument Structure and Linking

1990-91

Abdullahi Bature
Professor, Department of Nigerian Languages, Bayero State University.
Dissertation: Thematic Arguments and Semantic Roles in Hausa

Young-Mee Yu Cho --
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University.
Dissertation: Parameters of Consonantal Assimilation

Kristin Hanson --
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley.
Dissertation: Resolution in Modern Meters

Ki-Sun Hong
Associate Professor, Department of English, Seoul National University, Korea.
Dissertation: Argument Selection and Case Marking in Korean

John Stonham --
Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Dissertation: Current Issues in Morphological Theory

1989-90

Christopher Douglas Culy --
Senior Research Scientist, FXPAL.
Dissertation: The Syntax and Semantics of Internally Headed Relative Clauses

Mary Dalrymple --
University Lecturer in General Linguistics and Fellow of Linacre College, Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Department, Oxford University.
Dissertation: Syntactic Constraints on Anaphoric Binding

Keith Denning
Keith died on November 16, 1998. He was Associate Professor in the Department of English Language/Literature at East Michigan University. There is a Memorial Page for him at the EMU Linguistics Program web site.
Dissertation: The Diachronic Development of Phonological Voice Quality, With Special Reference to Dinka and Other Nilotic languages

Tara Warrier Mohanan --
Associate Professor, Department of English Languages/Literature, National University of Singapore.
Dissertation: Arguments in Hindi

Catherine Truax
Dissertation: Transparency, Analogy, and Phonological Change: Vowel Quantity and Nominal Number

1988-89

Sharon Inkelas --
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley.
Dissertation: Prosodic Constituency in the Lexicon

Jonni Miikka Kanerva --
Research Scientist, InXight, Palo Alto.
Dissertation: Focus and Phrasing in Chichewa Phonology

Marilyn Martin-Jones --
Professor, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Dissertation: Models and Methods in the Study of Bilingualism among Linguistic Minorities (Vol. I, Vol. II)

Deborah Salgo --
ESL Tutoring.
Dissertation: Cohesion in Children's Fictional Stories: Transitivity and a Goal-Directed Causal Analysis

Dovie Ruth Wylie --
TESOL, writing, and speaking consultant. Since 1992, Director, On-Site English.
Dissertation: The Structure of Monologue Discourse in English

1987-88

Mohamad Z. Abd-Rabbo
Professor, English Department, Bir-Zeit University.
Dissertation: Some Morphological Constraints in Classical Arabic

Michael Barlow --
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Dissertation: A Situated Theory of Agreement

Daniel Paul Flickinger --
Project Manager: LINGO Project, CSLI, Stanford University.
Dissertation: Lexical Rules in the Hierarchical Lexicon

Mark Edward Johnson --
Professor, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Science, Brown University.
Dissertation: Attribute-Value Logic and the Theory of Grammar

Suzanne E. Kemmer --
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Rice University.
Dissertation: The Middle Voice: A Typological and Diachronic Study

Elizabeth Anne Krainer
Self-employed Therapist.
Dissertation: Challenges in a Psychotherapy Group: Reflections of Direct and Indirect Discourse Strategies

Melissa Monroe
Writer, TESOL, composition consultant in Berlin.
Dissertation: The Expressive Function of Nominal Structure in Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens

Draga Zec --
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Cornell.
Dissertation: Sonority Constraints on Prosodic Structure

1986-87

Kathie Lou Carpenter --
Associate Professor, University of Oregon.
Dissertation: How Children Learn to Classify Nouns in Thai

William Albert Croft --
Professor, University of Manchester.
Dissertation: Categories and Relations in Syntax: The Clause-Level Organization of Information (Vols I and II)

Judith Golden Hochberg
IBM Research.
Dissertation: The Acquisition of Word Stress Rules in Spanish

Mariko Saiki
Associate Professor, Kanazawa University.
Dissertation: Grammatical Functions in the Syntax of Japanese Nominals

Nancy Wiegand
Research Associate, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
Dissertation: Causal Connectives in the Early History of English: A Study of Diachronic Syntax

1985-86

Megumi Kameyama
Megumi died on January 23, 1999. She was Senior Research Scientist at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. There is a Memorial Page for her hosted by the Stanford Linguistics Department.
Dissertation: Zero Anaphora: The Case of Japanese

1984-85

Catherine Houghton
Dissertation: Structure in Language and Music: A Linguistic Approach

Akira Ishikawa
Professor, Sophia University, Japan.
Dissertation: Complex Predicates and Lexical Operations in Japanese

Carl Jesse Pollard --
Professor, Ohio State University.
Dissertation: Generalized Phrase Structure Grammars, Head Grammars, and Natural Language

1983-84

Paul Robert Kozelka
Foreign Service Officer, US Information Service at the American Embassy in Paris.
Dissertation: The Development of National Languages: A Case Study of Language Planning in Togo

Marlys Arlene Macken --
Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dissertation: Phonological Universals and Variation: On Pattern and Diversity in Acquisition

1982-83

Barbara Frant Hecht --
John Tracy Clinic, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Dissertation: Situations and Language: Children's Use of Plural Allomorphs in Familiar and Unfamiliar Settings

Mariza do Nascimento Silva Pimenta-Bueno --
Law School, Rio de Janeiro.
Dissertation: Aspects of Verbal Syntax in Brazilian Portuguese Within the Framework of the Extended Standard Theory of Grammar

1981-82

Annette Herskovits
Dissertation: Space and the Prepositions in English: Regularities and Irregularities in a Complex Domain

Rebecca W. Labrum
Dissertation: Conditions of Double Negation in the History of English With Comparison to Similar Developments in German

Susan C. Shepherd --
Associate Professor, Department of English, Indiana University/Purdue University.
Dissertation: Modals in Antiguan Creole, Child Language Acquisition, and History

1980-81

David Dowell Cusic
Dissertation: Verbal Plurality and Aspect

David Anderoff Evans
President, CEO and Chief Scientist, CLARITECH Corporation.
Dissertation: Situations and Speech Acts: Toward a Formal Semantics of Discourse

Carolyn Echols Johnson --
Associate Professor, University of British Columbia.
Dissertation: Children's Questions and the Discovery of Interrogative Syntax

Al-Amin M. Mazrui --
Professor, Department of Black Studies, Ohio State University.
Dissertation: Acceptability in a Planned Standard: The Case of Swahili in Kenya

Randa Cecilia Mulford
Dissertation: Talking Without Seeing: Some Problems of Semantic Development in Blind Children

Claude Manley Reichard --
Senior Lecturer, Writing & Critical Thinking, Department of English, Stanford University
Dissertation: Meter and Rhythm in English Verse: Towards a Musical Synthesis

Chui Lim Tsang
Dissertation: A Semantic Study of Modal Auxiliary Verbs in Chinese

Sharon Read Veach
Technical writer, Sun Microsystems.
Dissertation: Children's Telephone Conversations

Steven Eric Weisler
Professor of Linguistics and Director of the School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College.
Dissertation: Relativization and Existence

1979-80

Iraset Paez-Urdaneta
Dissertation: The Use of 'Tu' and 'Usted': Patterns of Address in the Middle Class of Caracas

1978-79

Margaret Deuchar --
Senior Lecturer, University of Wales, Bangor.
Dissertation: Diglossia in British Sign Language

Delia Farach Hufton
Dissertation: Parametros Del Lunfardo

1977-78

Linda Kay Brown
Dissertation: Word Formation in Pocomchi

Mary Louise Edwards --
Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Syracuse University.
Dissertation: Patterns and Processes in Fricative Acquisition: Longutidinal Evidence from Six English-Learning Children

Joy Louise Robinson
Dissertation: Verbal Deference in Catalan: A Sociolinguistic Inverstigation of the Pronouns of Address

Kenneth Lyell Stallcup
Dissertation: A Comparative Perspective on the Phonology and Noun Classification of Three Cameroon Grassfields Bantu Languages: Moghamo, Ngie, and Oshie

James William Tollefson
Professor of English, University of Washington
Dissertation: Diglossia and Language Policy, with Special Reference to Slovenia

1976-77

Elaine Slosberg Andersen
Professor, University of Southern California.
Dissertation: Learning to Speak with Style: A Study of the Sociolinguistic Skills of Children

Irene Barrie Vogel
Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Delaware.
Dissertation: The Syllable in Phonological Theory; With Special Reference to Italian

Ann Charlotte Woodard
Dissertation: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Relationship of Language Dominance, Lexical Meaning and Grammatical Structure in the Reading and Aural Comprehension of Bidialectals

1975-76

James Joseph Duran
Dissertation: The Role of Swahili in a Multilingual Rural Community in Kenya

Lily Wong Fillmore
Professor Emerita, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley.
Dissertation: The Second Time Around: Cognitive and Social Strategies in Second Language Acquisition

James Paul Gee
Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Dissertation: Perception, Intentionality, and Naked Infinitives: A Study in Linguistics and Philosophy

Patricia Causey Nichols
Professor, San Jose State University.
Dissertation: Linguistic Change in Gullah: Sex, Age, and Mobility

1974-75

Charles E. DeBose
Dissertation: Papiamentu: A Spanish-based creole

Linda Gail Hemphill
Dissertation: A Conceptual Approach to Automated Language Understanding and Belief Structures: With a Complete Disambiguation of the Word 'For'

Vera Milada Henzl
Dissertation: Cultivation and Maintenance of Literary Czech by American Speakers

Ann Thayer Holmquist
Dissertation: A Semantic Approach to Narrative Fiction

Stephen Rudy Luckau
Dissertation: A Tonal Analysis of Grebo and Jabo

Mary Louise Pratt
Silver Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, NYU.
Dissertation: Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse

Sylvia Weber Russell
Dissertation: Computer Understanding of Conceptually Complex Phrases

1973-74

Veda R. Charrow
Dissertation: Deaf English - An Investigation of the Written English Competence of Deaf Adolescents

Teresa Ching-Sha Chen
Dissertation: A Statistical Study of Mandarin Phonology

Olga Kaunoff Garnica
Dissertation: Some Prosodic Characteristics of Speech to Young Children

Philip Alan Stephen Sedlak
Dissertation: Sociocultural Determinants of Lanuage Maintenance and Language Shift in a Rural Coastal Kenyan Community

Caroline Mary Stoel
Dissertation: The Acquisition of Liquids in Spanish

1972-73

Naomi Susan Baron
Professor of Linguistics, American University.
Dissertation: The Evolution of English Periphrastic Causatives: Contributions to a General Theory of Linguistic Variation and Change

Anthony Fred Beltramo
Dissertation: Lexical and Morphological Aspects of Linguistics Acculturation by Mexican Americans in San Jose, California

Afia Dil
Dissertation: The Hindu and Muslim Dialects of Bengali

Lilith Margaret Haynes
Dissertation: Language in Barbados and Guyana: Attitudes, Behaviours and Comparisons

Gayle Holley Partmann
Dissertation: Le Dioula vehiculaire en Cote d'Ivoire: Etude comparative des jeunes locuteurs primaire et secondaires du dioula

Merritt Ruhlen
Independent Researcher.
Dissertation: Rumanian Phonology

Margaret Mian Yan Sung
Dissertation: A Study of Literary and Colloquial Amoy Chinese

Thelma Evans Weeks
Dissertation: The Slow Speech Development of a Bright Child

1971-72

Gretchen Brunk
Dissertation: Syntactic Glosses in Latin Manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon Origin

1970-71

Rebecca Nogieru Agheyisi
Dissertation: West African Pidgin English: Simplification & Simplicity

Janine Konauka Reklaitis
Dissertation: Theory of Analogical Change: Application to Lithuanian

1969-70

Alan Edward Bell
Dissertation: A State-Process Approach to Syllabicity and Syllable Structure

Yole Correa-Zoli
Dissertation: Lexical and Morphological Aspects of American Italian in San Francisco

David Dixon Gardner
Dissertation: A Frequency Dictionary of Classical Latin Words, Volumes I, II

David Ingram
Dissertation: the Role of Person Deixis in Underlying Semantics

Olasope Oyediji Oyelaran
Dissertation: Yoruba Phonology

1968-69

Michael Wilmont Grady
Dissertation: Syntax and Semantics of the English Verb Phrase

Karen Louise Halladay Kavavik
Dissertation: Noun Suffixes in Modern Spanish: A Synchronic Study of Formal and Statistical Properties

1967-68

Hector Norberto Urrutibeheity
Dissertation: The Lexical Structure of Spanish, with Special Consideration for the Functional, Physical and Statistical Properties

1966-67

Edward Roy Gammon
Dissertation: The Statistical Determination of Linguistic Units

William Taylor Patterson
Dissertation: The Lexical Structure of Spanish, With Special Consideration for the Genealogical and Chronological Properites

Elisabeth Angela Popov
Dissertation: The Semantic Structure of the Russian Diminutives

Theodore Stephan Rodgers
Dissertation: Measuring Vocabulary Difficulty: An Analysis of Item Variables in Learning Russian-English and Japanese-English Vocabulary Pairs

Kimie Mushiaki Swindell
Dissertation: A Dictionary of Japanese Syllables

1965-66

Lars Holm Gantzel
Dissertation: The Meaning of Terminal Pitch Pattern

Hiroshi Miyaji
Dissertation: A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese Words, Volume I, Volume II

1964-65

Richard Lawrence Venezky
Dissertation: A Study of English Spelling-to-Sound Correspondences on Historical Principles

Irene Wakeham
Dissertation: Deviations from Standard English in the Writing of Filipino College Freshmen