ALUMNI

Ph.D. recipients 1969 - 2008

Mohammad Abdel-Latif (1989) The sentential structure of Arabic
Christina Abdul-Ghani (Lehman) (1978) Accent in Discourse: An Analysis of Function
Hasan Abdul-Ghani (1979) Perceived Attitudes and Second Language Learning
Asier Alcazar (2007) Sentences in the Lower Phase and Interface Phenomena
Gontzal Aldai (2002)  
Roann Altman (1984) Assessing Modal Proficiency in English as a Second Language
Lori Altmann (1998) Effects of Working Memory and Semantic Impairment Speech in Alzheimer's Disease
Estibaliz Amorrortu (2000) Linguistic Attitudes in the Basque Country: the Social Acceptance of a New Variety
Stephen Craig Anderson (1983) Tone & Morpheme Rules in Bamileke-Ngyemboon
Nancy Antrim (1996) On the Status of Possessives
Hiroshi Aoyagi (1998) On the Nature of Particles in Japanese and Its Theoretical Implications
Valentina Apresjan (1995) Emotions: Linguistics Representation and Cultural Conceptualization
Alfredo Arnaiz (1996) N-words and Wh- In-situ: Nature and Interactions
Dwight Atkinson (1993) A Historical Discourse Analysis of Scientific Research Writing from 1675 to 1975: The Case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Marc Pierre Authier (1988) The Syntax of Unselective Binding
Robert Edward Barela (1971) A Descriptive Sytax of King Alfred's Soliloquies
Robert Baumgardner Jr. (1982) Sociolinguistic Aspects of Persian Pronouns of Address: A Macro/Micro Analysis
Martha Sherwood Bean (1991)* Getting heard: Perseveration in the Speech of a Young Latino Learner
Robert Belvin (1996) Inside Events: The Non-possesive Meanings of Possession Predicates and the Semantics Conceptualization of Events
Elabbas Benmamoun (1992) Inflectional and Functional Morphology: Problems of Projection, Representation and Derivation
Tina Lynne Bennett (1978) A Developmental Pragmatic & Psycholinguistic Investigation of Repetition in the Speech of Genre
Uffe Bergeton (2004)  
Nicolas Guy Besnier (1986) Spoken & Written Registers in a Restricted-Literacy Setting
Douglas Edward Biber (1984) A Model of Textual Relations Within the Written and Spoken Modes
Edmond Biloa (1992) The Syntax of Operator Constructions in Tuki
Sylvia Martina Bock (1984) Fronting in Caribbean Creoles
Heather Joan Bowe (1987) Categories, Constituents and Constituent Order in Pitjantjatjara
Mary Patricia Boyle (1991) Variation in Levels of Language: A Study of Politeness in Japanese
Maquela Brizuela (1999) Definiteness Types in Spanish: A study of Natural Discourse
Paul Bruthiaux (1993) Linguistic Simplicity and the Language of Classified Ads
Kevin George Burne (1972) A Syntactic Analysis of the Writing of Some 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade Caucasian Children in the LA City Schools
Monica Cabrera (2005) The Acquisition of Causative Structures in English and Spanish as Second Languages
Jose Camacho (1997) The Syntax of NP Coordination
Judit Rebeka Campos Astorkiza (2007) Minimal contrast and the phonetics-phonology interaction
Lindsey Chen (2008) On Mass, Collectives and Pseudopartitives
Sylvia Shengyun Chen (1997) Intra-lexical Noun-verb Dissociations: Evidence from Chinese Aphasia
Chi-hang Candice Cheung (2008) The syntax of wh-in-situ in Chinese
Dong-in Cho (1994) A Comparative Study of Focus Constructions
Young Sik Choi (2002) Asymmetry of Scope Taking in Wh-questions
Lina Choueiri (2002) Revisiting Relatives: Issues in the Syntax of Resumptive Relative Constructions
Daeho Chung (1996) On the Representation and Licensing of Q and Q-Dependents
Marvin Richard Coates (1977) An Investigation of the Effect of Computer Assisted Instruction on Foreign Speakers' Learning of English Complement Structures
Akiko Kumahira Comrie (1987) On So-Called Quantifier Floating in Japanese
Jeffrey Taylor Connor-Linton (1989) Crosstalk: A multi-feature analysis of Soviet-American Spacebridges
Haruko Minegishi Cook (1988) Sentential Particles in Japanese Conversation: A Study of Indexicality
Philip Harold Cook (1973) Theme, Rheme, and Focus as Grammatical Universals
Suzanne Curtin (2002) Representational Richness in Phonological Development
Ann Daubney-Davis (1994)* Structure, Convention, and Persona: The Writing of Urban Hispanic and Black Middle School Students
Ferdinand de Haan (1994) The Interaction of Modality and Negation: A Typological Study
Nigel Gordon Duffield (1991) Particles and projections
Anne Dunlea (1982) The Role of Visual Information in the Emergence of Meaning: A Comparison of Blind & Sighted Children
Alessandro Duranti (1981) The Fono: A Samoan Speech Event
William Gregory Eggington (1985) Towards a Language Plan for the Southern California Area: The Hacienda-La Puente Survey
Gorka Elordieta (1997) Morphosyntactic Feature Chains and Phonological Domains
Guanjun Bella Feng (2006) Prosodic morphemes vs. fixed segment morphemes: their
segments, position and shape
Dana Rider Ferris (1991) Syntactic and lexical characteristics of ESL student writing: A multidimensional study
Fredric Field (1998) Borrowing and Borrowability
Kathleen Frances Flynn (1985) The Acquisition of Form and Function in L2: An Analysis of the Use of the Perfect in the Written Discourse of Adult Second Language Learners
Terrence Michael Flynn (1973)* Lanuage in Context: Toward the Pschologically Real Grammar
Paul Robert Frommer (1981) Post-Verbal Phenomena in Colloquial Persian Syntax
Teruhiko Fukaya (2007) Slucing and Stripping in Japanese and Some Implications
Shadi Ganjavi (2007) Direct Objects in Persian
Gary Martin Gilligan (1987) A Cross-Linguistic Approach to the Pro-Drop Parameter
Heather Goad (1994) On the Configuration of Height Features
Laura Gonnerman (1999) An Alternative Account of Derivational Morphology: Exploring the Semantics-Phonology Interface
Carolina Gonzalez (2002) The Effect of Prosodic Structure in Consonantal Processes
Ljiljana Progovac Gotstajn (1988) A Binding Approach to Polarity Sensitivity
William Peter Grabe (1984) Towards Defining Expository Prose Within a Theory of Text Construction
Anthony Greblick (2000) The Modal Preterite Phenomenon (MPP) in Colloquial American English: A Diachronic and Synchronic Analysis
Hefedh Halila (1992) Subject Specificity Effects in Tunisian Arabic
Chistopher John Hall (1987) Language Structure and Explanation: A Case From Morphology
Helena Halmari (1994) A Government Approach to Finnish-English Intrasentential Code-Switching
Mohmed Hared (1992) Modernization and Standardization in Sumali Press Writing
J.-R. Hayashishita (2004) Syntactic and Non-Syntactic Scope
John Scott Hedgcock (1991) Foreign Language Retention and Attrition: A Study of Maintenance Patterns Among Adult Learners of Spanish
Lorie Ann Heggie (1988) The Syntax of Copular Structure
Elena Herburger (1997) In the Event of Focus
Robert Martin Hertz (1974) The Grammar of English Causative Transitivity
Roland Hinterholzl (1999) Restructuring Infinitives and the Theory of Complementation
Heather Kristine Holmback (1982) The Interpretation of Definite and Indefinite Descriptions
Kauro Horie (1993) A Cross-Linguistic Study of Perception and Cognition Verb Compliments: A Cognitive Perspective
John Yien-Yao Hou (1979) Grammatical Relations in Chinese
Noel Ross Houck (1984) The Pragmatics of Tag Questions: A Model for Epistemic Speaker-Hearer Acts
Jose Ignacio Hualde (1988) A Lexical Phonology of Basque
Wesley Hudson (1994) Pragmatic Constraints on Binding into Noun Phrases
Matthew Busby Hunt (1996) The Sociolinguistics of Tagging and Chicano Gang Graffiti
Miao-Ling Hsieh (2001) Form and Meaning: Negation and Question in Chinese
Cristian Iscrulescu (2006) The Phonological Dimension of Grammatical Markedness
Harriet Lynne Jisa (1985) Sentence Connectors in the Speech of French Preschoolers
Marc Joanisse (2000) Connectionist Phonology
Taro Kageyama (1977) Lexical Structures: A Comparative Study of Japanese and English
Francis Xavier Karam (1969) An Investigation of Some Critical Factors in Language Synthesis and the Implications of These Factors for Linguists as Language Engineers
Fusa Katada (1990) The representation of anaphoric relations in logical form
Fatma Nihan Ketrez (2005) Children's Scope of Indefinite Objects
Alan Hyun-Oak Kim (1985) The Grammar of Focus in Korean Syntax and Its Typological Implications
Jeongdal Kim (1993) The Serial Verb Construction in Korean
Kyungan Kim (1995) Causativity in Korean: Syntactic Causative, Control and Purpose
Yong-Jin Kim (1990) Register variation in Korean: a corpus-based study
Jelena Krivokapic (2007) The Planning, Production, and Perception of Prosodic Structure
Barbara Kroll (1982) Levels of Error in ESL Composition
Chin-Man Kuo (2003)  
Laila Lalami (1997) Frequency in Sentence Comprehension
Liliana Landolfi (1988) Explanation as a Joint Activity: Co-Constructing Knowledge in Second-Language Clasrroms
Dami Lee (1992) Universal Grammar, Learnability, and the Acquisition of L2 English Reflexive Binding by L1 Korean Speakers
Miae Lee (2004) Syntactically-Triggered VP Information Focus
Mina Lee (2004) Overt Focus Movement and Minimal Information Marking
Sechang Lee (1997) Correspondence and Faithfulness Constraints in Optimality Theory: A Study of Korean Consonantal Phonology
Won-pyo Lee (1989) Referential Choice in Korean Discourse: Cognitive and Social Perspective
Tsz-Cheung Tommi Leung (2007) Syntactic Derivation and the Theory of Matching Contextual Features
Hui-ju Grace Li (2002) Ellipsis Constructions in Chinese
Yen-Hu Audreyi Li (1985) Abstract Case in Chinese
Christopher Long (2003) The Effect of Non-native Speaker Status on the use of Linguistic Accommodation by Native Speakers of Date Japanese: Implications for Communication Accommodation Theory
Jolanta Maceviciute (2000) The Beginnings of Language Loss: A Discourse Study of American Lithuanian
Marcus Maia (1994) The Comprehension of Object Anaphora in Brazilian Portuguese
Ndinzi Nyembo Masagara (1991) Oath-taking in Kirundi: The Impact of Religion on Language Change
Yuki Matsuda (1997) Representation of Focus and Presupposition in Japanese
Keiji Matsumoto (1985) A Study of Tense and Aspect in Japanese
Stephen James Matthews (1990) A cognitive approach to the typology of verbal aspect
Roberto Mayoral Hernandez (2008) On the Unaccusative Hypothesis and the Locative Alternation in Spanish
Joyce Patricia McDowell (1987) Assertion and Modality
Karine Megerdoomian (2002) Beyond Words and Phrases: A Unified Theory of Predicate Composition
Marcello Modesto (2000) On the Identification of Null Arguments
Simona Montanari (2006) Language Differentiation in Early Trilingual Development:
Evidence from a Case
Franz Muller-Gotama (1991) A Typology of the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Ngessimo Mathe Mutaka (1990) The lexical tonology of kinande
Joyce Neu (1985)  
Makoto Nishikawa (1987) Japanese Lexical Phonology and Morphology
Eunjeong Oh (2006) Second Language Acquisition of English Double Object Constructions by Korean Speakers
Hiroyuki Oshita (1997) The Unaccusative Trap: Acquisition of Instransitive Verbs in L2 English
Hong-Keun Park (2007) Against Optionality in Derivation and Interpretation: Evidence from Scrambling
Soyoung Park (2008) Functional Categories: The syntax of DP and DegP
Ghislaine Genevieve Pattney (1991) The Language of Problem Solving in a Computer Lab
Charles Paus (1997) A Comparison of the Sociolinguistic Conditioning of Phonetic Reduction in Moscow Russian and Northwestern Mexican Spanish
Peter Petrucci (1993) Slavic Features in the History of Romania
Deborah Pool (1989)  
Charles Randriamasimanana (1981) A Study of the Causative Constructions of Malagasy
Vaidehi Ramanathan-Abbott (1994) Wellformedness in Alzheimer Narratives: An Interactional and Schematic Understanding
Charlotte Reinholtz (1999) Verb Second, Mood and Operator Licensing
Jack Forrest Roberson (1982) Bangkok Thai Towes
Ian Gareth Roberts (1985) The Representation of Dethematized and Implicit Subjects
Magdalena Romera-Ciria (2001) Discourse Functional Units: A Re-Examination of Discourse Markers With Particular Reference to Spanish
Isabelle Roy (2006) Non-Verbal Predications: A Syntactic Analysis of Predicational Copular Sentences
Dina Rudolph (1993) Getting Past Politeness: The Role of Linguistic Markers of Evidentiality and Informational Domains in Japanese
Kevin Russell (1993) A Constraint-based Approach to Phonology and Morphology
Ana Sanchez Munoz (2007) Register and Style Variation in Speakers of Spanish as a Heritage and as a Second Language
Liliana Sánchez (1996) Syntactic Structures in Nominals: A Comparative Analysis of Spanish and Southern Quechua
Robin Cameron Scarcella (1984) Cohesion in the Writing Development of Native and non-Native English Speakers
Deborah Susan Schlindwein (1988) The Phonological Geometry of Morpheme Concatenation
Bonnie Dale Schwartz (1987) The Modular Basis of Second Language Acquisition
Michael Trevor Shanklin (1990) The grammar of negation in Middle English
Peter Ambler Shaw (1983) The Language of Engineering Professors: A Discourse and Registral Analysis of a Speech Event
Dingxu Shi (1992) The Nature of Topic Comment Constructions and Topic Chains
Shu-ing Shyu (1995) The Syntax of Focus and Topic in Mandarin Chinese
Jeff Small (1994) On-line Sentence Comprehension in Alzheimer's Disease
Aaron Sonnenschein (2003) A Descriptive Grammar of Zoogocho Zapotec on a Typological Basis
Lynn Stallings (1998) Evaluating Heaviness: Relative Weight in the Spoken Production of Heavy-NP Shift
Suchitra Sudanandan (1999) Malayalan Phonology: An Optimality Theoretic Approach
Jinhee Suh (1990) Scope phenomena and aspects of Korean syntax
Ikuhiro Tamori (1979) A Study of Japanese Adverbs
Carolyn E. Taylor (1995) Child as Apprentice-Narrator: Socializing Voice, Face, Identity, and Self-Esteem Amid the Narrative Politics of Family Dinner
Linda Louise Thornburg (1984) Syntactic Reanalysis in Early English
Ellen Touchstone (1996) Language Services Planning in the Banking Industry: An Example of Unplanned Language Policy
Pachongkarn Towtong (1985) Syntactic Areal Classification of Southeast Asian Languages
Feng-Fu Tsao (1977) A Functional Study of Topic in Chinese: The First Step Toward Discourse Analysis
John Kwok-Ping Tse (1980) Language Planning and English as a Foreign Language in Middle School Education in the Republic of China
Ayumi Ueyama (1998) Two Types of Dependency
Florence Van der Houwen (2005) Negotiating Disputes and Achieving Judgments on 'Judge Judy'
Masakazu Watabe (1978) An Examination of Topic in Japanese
Shin Watanabe (1995) Aspects of Questions in Japanese and Their Theoretical Implications
Donald Weasenforth (1995) Rhetorical Abstraction as a Facet of Expected Response: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis
William Howard White (1988) Vocabulary Acquisition from Reading and the ESL Learner
Xiu-Zhi Wu (2000) Grammatication and the Development of Functional Categories in Chinese
Virginia Choy-Yin Yip (1989) Aspects of Chinese/English Interlanguage: Syntax, Semantics, and Learnability
Noriko Yoshimura (1992) Scrambling and Anaphora in Japanese
Madeleine Noel Youmans (1995)* Communicative Rights and Responsibilities in an East Los Angeles Barrio: An Analysis of Epistemic Modal Use
Patricia Schneider-Zioga (1994) The Syntax of Clitic Doubling in Modern Greek
Ke Zou (1995) The Syntax of the Chinese BA-Contructions and Verb Compounds: A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis

* deceased