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Meehyei Lee, M.A. 2003, Advisor: D. Zec
“Topics in Korean Mimetic Expressions”
Affiliation: Dept.of East Asian Languages and Cultures,
Univ. of California, Berkeley
http://ieas.berkeley.edu/gas/
meehyeileeuclink.berkeley.edu

Budzani Gabanamotse, M.A. 2003, Advisor: C. Collins
“Serial Verbs in Naro"
Affiliation: University of Botswana,
Dept. of African Languages and Literature
http://www.ub.bw/home.html

Josep Alba-Salas, Ph.D. 2002, Advisor: C. Rosen
“Light Verb Constructions in Romance: A Syntactic Analysis”
Affiliation: Asst. Prof, College of the Holy Cross, Worchester MA
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/mll/website/spanish/spanmain.htm
jalbaholycross.edu

Maria Blume, Ph.D. 2002, Advisor: B. Lust
“Discourse Morphosyntax Interface in Spanish Non-Finite Verbs: A Comparison Between Adult and Child Grammars”
Univ. of Texas @ El Paso
Dept. of Language & Linguistics
Email: mblume@utep.edu

Nuria Lopez Ortega, Ph.D. 2002, Advisor: J. Lantolf
“The Development of Discourse Competence in Study Abroad Learners: A Study of Subject Expression in Spanish as a Second Language”
Univ. of Cincinnati
Romance Languages and Literatures
Field Service Asst Prof & Coord. of Basic Spanish
E-mail: nuria.lopez-ortega@uc.edu

Whitney Postman, Ph.D. 2002, Advisor: S. McConnell-Ginet
“Thematic Role Assignment in Indonesian: A Case Study of Agrammatic Aphasia”
Affiliation: Postdoctoral fellow, National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders,
National Institutes of Health
postmanwnidcd.nih.gov

Jennifer Austin, Ph.D. 2001, Advisor: B. Lust
“Language Mixing and the Acquisition of Morphosyntax in Basque/Spanish Bilingual Children”
Affiliation: Asst. Prof, Rutgers University,
Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures
http://rutgers-newark.rutgers.edu/cmll/
baustinandromeda.rutgers.edu

Haraldur Bernhardsson, Ph.D. 2001, Advisor: J. Jasanoff
“Verner's Law in Gothic”
Affiliation: Post Doc, University of Iceland, Research institutes and other university affiliated institutions
http://www.hugvis.hi.is/hugvis.shtml?english
haraldrhi.is

Traci Suiter, Ph.D 2001, Advisor: H. Tao
“Linguistic Foundations of Investigative Discourse Analysis and Content Based Criteria Analysis”

Yue Wang, Ph.D. 2001, Advisor: A. Jongman
“Perception, Production, and Neurophysiological Processing of Lexical Tone by Native and Non-Native Speakers”
Simon Fraser Univ
Asst. Prof, Dept. of Linguistics
E-mail: yuew@sfu.ca

Doris Borrelli, Ph.D. 2000, Advisor: C. Rosen
"Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian: A Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Dialectal Study”
Affiliation: Visit. Asst. Prof., Rochester Institute of Technology,
Dept. of Language and Literature
http://www.rit.edu/~langlit/lang.html
dabgslrit.edu

Bruce Cain, Ph.D. 2000, Advisor: J. Gair
“Dhivehi: Synchronic and Diachronic Study”

Theresa Case, Ph.D. 2000, Advisor: J. Whitman
“Kana in the Eighth Century: An Ancient Japanese Writing System”

Fred Hoyt, M.A. 2000, Advisor: W. Harbert
“Agreement, Specificity Effects, and Phrase Structure in Rural Palestinian Arabic Existential Constructions”
Linguistics PhD program at Univ of TX, Austin
(Arabic)

Lisa Lavoie, Ph.D. 2000, Advisor: A. Cohn
“Phonological Patterns and Phonetic Manifestations of Consonant Weakening”
Affiliation: Post Doc, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology
http://hst.mit.edu/
lisaSPEECH.MIT.EDU

Takashi Toyoshima, Ph.D. 2000, Advisor: J. Whitman
“Head-to-Spec Movement and Dynamic Economy”
Affiliation: Asst. Prof., Kyushu Inst. of Technology, Fukuka, Japan

Kasumi Yamamoto, Ph.D. 2000, Advisor: J. Whitman
“The Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof. of Japanese, Dept. of Asian Studies, Williams College
http://www.williams.edu/Asian/Japanese/yamamoto.html
Kasumi.Yamamotwilliams.edu

Kevin Connelly, Ph.D. 1999, Advisor: L. Waugh
“The Textual Function of Onondaga Aspect, Mood, and Tense: A journey into Onondaga Conceptual Space”
Affiliation: Onondaga Reservation, Upstate New York
kcononmac.com

Tobey Doeleman (Nelson), Ph.D. 1999, Advisor: A. Jongman
“The role of phonological features in the internal representation of American English consonants: Evidence from behavioral, neuroimaging & computational modeling approaches”
Affiliation: Research Associate, Univ of Washington,
Autism Center

Kirsten Fudeman, Ph.D. 1999, Advisor: V. Carstens
“Topics in the Morphology and Syntax of Balanta, an Atlantic Language of Senegal"
Affiliation: Asst. Prof. of French, Department of French and Italian,
University of Pittsburgh
http://www.frenchanditalian.pitt.edu/people/index.php
fudemanpitt.edu

Patricia Genung, Ph.D. 1999, Advisor: J. Lantolf
“Subject-Verb agreement in German embedded clauses: A study of classroom learner production”
Affiliation: Col. US Military Academy, Dept. of Foreign Languages
http://www.dean.usma.edu/dfl/
patricia.genungusma.edu

Yonghong Mao, M.A. 1999, Advisor: J. Whitman
“Islands and Resumptive Pronouns in Chinese Relative Clauses”

Takashi Nakajima, Ph.D. 1999, Advisor: J. Whitman
“Word Order in the Minimalist Program: A Derivational Approach”
Affiliation: Assoc Prof, Toyama Prefectural Univ, Dept. of Linguistics, Toyama, Japan
http://www.pu-toyama.ac.jp/english/eindex.html

David Parkinson, Ph.D. 1999, Advisor: B. Lust
“The Interaction of Syntax and Morphology in the Acquisition of Inuktitut”
Affiliation: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
davparkmicrosoft.com

Jorge Pérez-Silva, Ph.D. 1999, Advisor: J. Lantolf
“The Psycholinguistic Basis of Andean Spanish Morphosyntax”
Affiliation: Pontificia Univ Catolica de Peru, Dept of Humanidades
http://www.pucp.edu.pe/~human/
operezpucp.edu.pe

Jonathan Alcantara, Ph.D. 1998, Advisor: A. Cohn
“The Architecture of the English Lexicon”
Affiliation: CEO, Voxpilot
jbavoxpilot.com

Ewa Dornisch, Ph.D. 1998, Advisor: W. Browne
“Multiple-wh-Questions in Polish: The Interactions Between Wh-phrases and Clitics”

William Ham, Ph.D. 1998, Advisor: A. Cohn
“Phonetic and Phonological Aspects of Geminate Timing”
Affiliation: Research Assoc., Speechworks International, Inc., Ithaca Office
http://www.speechworks.com
billhamspeechworks.com

Kunio Nishiyama Ph.D. 1998, Advisors: C. Collins & J. Whitman
“The Morphosyntax and Morphophonology of Japanese Predicates”

Mandy Simons, Ph.D. 1998, Advisor: S. McConnell-Ginet
“Or: Issues in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Disjunction”
Affiliation: Asst Prof of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/
simonsandrew.cmu.edu

David Brandt, M.A. 1997, Advisor: A. Cohn
“Using Neural Networks and Sonority Theory for Automatic Segmentation of Speech”
Technical consulting work in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ioana Chitoran, Ph.D. 1997, Advisor: A. Cohn
“The Phonology and Morphology of Romanian Glides and Diphthongs: A Constraint-based Approach”
Affiliation: Asst. Prof, Dartmouth University, Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~linguist/faculty/chitoran.html
ioana.chitorandartmouth.edu

Antony Green, Ph.D. 1997, Advisor: D. Zec
“The Prosodic Structure of Irish, Scots Gaelic, and Manx”

Hyunsoon Kim, Ph.D. 1997, Advisor: G. N. Clements
“The Phonological Representation of Affricates: Evidence from Korean & Other Languages”
Affiliation: Department of English, Hongik University, Seoul
http://www.hongik.edu/
hyunsoonkimhotmail.com

Becky Letterman, Ph.D. 1997, Advisor: A. Cohn
“The Effects of Word-Internal Prosody in Sinhala: A Constraint-Based Analysis”

Asun Martinez-Arbelaiz, Ph.D. 1997, Advisor: M. Suner
“The Syntax and Semantics of Conditional Clauses: Evidence form Spanish and Basque”
Affiliation: University Studies Abroad Consortium, Universidad del Pais Vasco
http://usac.unr.edu/usacweb/program_overview.php?ProgramID=SpainSanSebastian02-03
marti298terra.es

Ignazio Mirto, Ph.D. 1997, Advisor: C. Rosen
“The Syntax of the Meronymic Construction”
Job in Italy at a private prep school, teaching Italian/English languages.

Akinloye Ojo, M.A. 1997, Advisors: V. Carstens & A. Cohn
“Incorporation of Words into Yoruba: A Sociolinguistic and Phonological Analysis”
Affiliation: University of Georgia, Dept. of Comparative Literature
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~akinloye/
akinloyearches.uga.edu

Aneta Pavlenko, Ph.D. 1997, Advisor: J. Lantolf
“Bilingualism and Cognition”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof., Temple University,
TESOL Program, Curriculum, Instruction, & Technology in Education
http://www.temple.edu/education/cite/index.html
apavlenkastro.temple.edu

Justin Spence, M.A. 1997, Advisor: V. Carstens
“Feature Checking and Subject Position in Kiswahili Tensed Relative Clauses”
jgspencehotmail.com

Ayako Tsuchida, Ph.D. 1997, Advisor: A. Cohn
“Phonetics and Phonology of Japanese Vowel Devoicing”
tsuchidacomcast.net

Ratree Wayland, Ph.D. 1997, Advisor: A. Jongman
“Acoustic and Perceptual Investigation of Breathy and Clear Phonation in Chanthaburi Khmer: Implications for the History of Khmer Phonology”
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Program in Linguistics, University of Florida
ratreeufl.edu

Eun-Young Yi, Ph.D. 1997, Advisor: J. Whitman
“Re- and De-Constructing Coordination in Korean”
Affiliation: McKinsey Corp.
eunyoung_yimckinsey.com

Barbara Avila-Jimenez (Shah), Ph.D. 1996, Advisor: L. Waugh
“Subject Pronoun Expression in Puerto Rican Spanish: A Sociolinguistic, Morphological, and Discourse Analysis”
Affiliation: Adj. Asst. Prof., SUNY Buffalo, Dept. of Romance Languages & Literatures
biabuffalo.edu

Wing Ming Chan, Ph.D. 1996, Advisor: S. McConnell-Ginet
“On the Theory of Aspect and Chinese Aspect Systems”
Working as freelance person in a technology firm.
wingmingchan64hotmail.com

Claire Foley, Ph.D. 1996, Advisor: B. Lust
“Knowledge of the Syntax of Operators in the Initial State: The Acquistion of Relative Clauses in French and English”

Jeong-Im Han, Ph.D 1996, Advisor: A. Cohn
“The Phonetics and Phonology of “Tense” and “Plain” Consonants in Korean”
Affiliation: Asst Prof, Konkuk Univ., English and Linguistics

Michael Jessen, Ph.D. 1996, Advisor: L. Waugh
“Phonetics and Phonology of the Tense and Lax Obstruents in German”
Affiliation: Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Phonetics
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/phonetik/michael.html
Michael.Jessenbka.bund.de

Vladimir Sedov, Ph.D. 1996, Advisor: L. Waugh
“Lexical Means of Expressing the Category of Purpose in a Modern English Dictionary”

Chioko Takahashi, Ph.D. 1996, Advisor: J. Whitman
“Multiplicity, Optionality, and Constraints on the Distribution of Nominative Case in Japanese”

John Bailyn, Ph.D. 1995, Advisor: J. Bowers
“A Configurational Approach to Russian “Free” Word Order”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof., SUNY, Stony Brook, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages/Dept of Linguistics
http://semlab2.sbs.sunysb.edu/General/dept.html
jbailynnotes.cc.sunysb.edu

Elaine Ballard, Ph.D 1995, Advisor: W. Harbert
“The Cologne Versions of Lanseloet van Denemerken: a linguistics analysis”

Isabella Barbier, Ph.D. 1995, Advisor: W. Harbert
“Configuration and Movement: Studies of the First Language Acquisition of Dutch Word-Order”

Laurent Dekydtspotter, Ph.D. 1995, Advisor: V. Carstens
“Null Operator-Variable Structure, Predication and the Interpretive Interface”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof. of French Linguistics, Dept. of French and Italian, Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~frithome/
ldekydtsindiana.edu

Raul Elias-Cintron, Ph.D. 1995, Advisor: M. Suñer
“Towards a General Theory of Agreement: A Psycholinguistic Study of Spanish Gender”
Affiliation: Director Global Purchasing, Fragrance Chemicals
Firmenich S.A. Geneva Switzerland
http://www.firmenich.com/servlet/page?_pageid=66&_dad=gvaporp&_schema=LATROP03&cid=HO&sid=null
RAUL_ELIASfirmenich.com

Thorhallur Eythorsson, Ph.D. 1995, Advisor: J. Jasanoff
“The Syntax of Verbs in the Early Germanic Languages”
Affiliation: University of Iceland, Institute of Linguistics
http://www.hugvis.hi.is/hugvis.shtml?english

Beverley Goodman, Ph.D. 1995, Advisor: A. Cohn
“Features in Ponapean Phonology”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof., Eastern Michigan University, Program in Linguistics
http://www.emich.edu/public/lingprog/index.html
eng_goodmanonline.emich.edu

Luis Lopez Carretero, Ph.D. 1995, Advisor: V. Carstens
“Polarity and Predicate Anaphora”
Affiliation: Univ of Illinois, Assoc. Professor of Spanish Linguistics
http://www.uic.edu/depts/sfip/index.htm
uislopeuic.edu

Corinne Moore, Ph.D. 1995, Advisor: A. Jongman
“Speaker & Rate Normalization in the Perception of Lexical Tone by Mandarin & English Listeners”
Affiliation: Bell & Howell Publishing Services, a division of ProQuest Company
3900 Kinross Lakes Parkway, Richfield OH 44286
cmooreneo.rr.com

Lynn Santelmann, Ph.D. 1995, Advisor: W. Harbert
“The Acquisition of Verb Second Grammar in Child Swedish: Continuity of Universal Grammar in Wh-Questions, Topicalization & Verb Raising”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof., Applied Linguistics, Portland State University
http://web.pdx.edu/~dbls/
santelmannlpdx.edu

Kaori Ueki, M.A. 1995, Advisor: M. McWhorter
“A Study of Social Variation in Edo Japanese”
Back in Japan working in private industry.

Yuko Yanagida, Ph.D. 1995, Advisor: J. Whitman
“Focus Projection and WH-Head Movement”
Affiliation: Kochi Univ., Faculty of Education

Maher Bahloul, Ph.D. 1994, Advisor: L. Waugh
“The Syntax and Semantics of Taxis Aspect, Tense and Modality in Standard Arabic”
Affiliation: American University of Sharjah
www.bahloul.com
mbahloulausharjah.edu

Raja Bahloul, M.A. 1994, Advisor: W. Harbert
“Inflectional Morphology, Negation, and the Clausal Structure in Tunisian Arabic:
Affiliation: American University of Sharjah
www.bahloul.com
rmallekausharjah.edu

Ruriko Kawashima, Ph.D. 1994, Advisor: J. Whitman
“The Structure of Noun Phrases and the Interpretation of Quantificational NPs in Japanese”

Emiko Konomi, Ph.D. 1994, Advisor: W. Harbert
“The Structure of Nominal Predicate in Japanese”

William McClure, Ph.D. 1994, Advisor: G. Chierchia
“Syntactic Projections of the Semantics of Aspect”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof., CUNY Graduate Center, Linguistics
and Japanese Lanuguage Program, Queens College

Edward Rubin, Ph.D. 1994, Advisor: W. Harbert
“Modification: A Syntactic Analysis and its Consequences”
Assoc. Prof., Department of Linguistics
University of Utah

Ann Bradlow, Ph.D. 1993, Advisor: A. Jongman
“Language-Specific & Universal Aspects of VowelProduction & Perception: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Vowel Inventories”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof., Northwestern University, Dept. of Linguistics
http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/linguistics/
abradlownorthwestern.edu

Noura Belazi, Ph.D. 1993, Advisor: L. Waugh
“Semantics and Pragmatics of the Tunisian Tenses and Aspects”

Regina Hauptmann, M.A. 1993, Advisor: W. Harbert
“Sentential Negation in English and German: Problems in Syntax and L2 Acquisition”

Harry Howard, Ph.D. 1993, Advisor: M. Suñer
“Sigma P, Affective Inversion, and Topicalization in English and Spanish”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof., Tulane University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Linguistics Program
http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/index.html
howardmailhost.tcs.tulane.edu

Tami Kaplan, Ph.D. 1993, Advisor: J. Whitman
“The Second Language Acquisition of Functional Categories: Complementizer Phrases in English and Japanese”
Affiliation: Senior Research Analyst, Office of Development Research and Systems, MIT

Gita Martohardjono, Ph.D. 1993, Advisor: B. Lust
“WH-movement in the Acquisition of a L2: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Three Languages With and Without Overt Movement”
Affiliation: Assoc Prof., Queens College, The Graduate Center
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Linguistics/people/index.htm
gmartohardjonomail.gc.cuny.edu

Erika Mitchell, Ph.D. 1993, Advisor: W. Harbert
“Morphological Evidence for Syntactic Structure: The Finno-Ugric Languages & English”

Leslie Porterfield, Ph.D. 1993, Advisor: F. Landman
“Habituals”
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Cornell University, Intensive English Program
http://languagecenter.cornell.edu/iep/
lp20cornell.edu

Gudrun Thorhallsdottir, Ph.D. 1993, Advisor: J. Jasanoff
“The Development of Intervocalic *j in Proto-Germanic”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof., University of Iceland, Faculty of Arts
http://www.hi.is/nam/islenska/kennarar.html
gthhi.is

Jacqueline Toribio, Ph.D. 1993, Advisor: M. Suñer
“Parametric Variation in the Licensing of Nominals”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Spanish, Italian, & Portuguese
Penn State
http://sip.la.psu.edu/
ajt5psu.edu

Alice Turk, Ph.D. 1993, Advisors: J. Kingston & A. Jongman
“Effects of Position-in-Syllable and Stress on Consonant Articulation”
Affiliation: Director of Linguistics Lab, University of Edinburgh,
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/
turkling.ed.ac.uk

Michael Weiss, Ph.D. 1993, Advisor: J. Jasanoff
“Studies in Italic Nominal Morphology”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof., Cornell University, Department of Linguistics
http://ling.cornell.edu/Weiss/weiss.html
mlw36cornell.edu

Keiko Yoshida, Ph.D. 1993, Advisor: J. Whitman
“Syntax and Semantics of WH-Quantifier Interactions”
Affiliation: Waseda Univ. Dept. of English Linguistics

Yang Gu, Ph.D. 1992, Advisor: CT J. Huang
“The Syntax of Resultative and Causative Compounds in Chinese”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Modern Languages & Intercultural Studies, Linguistics
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ils/Faculty_guyang.htm
yanggucuhk.edu.hk

Elizabeth Hume Haire, Ph.D. 1992, Advisor: G. N. Clements
“Front Vowels, Coronal Consonants and their Interaction in Non-linear Phonology”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof., Ohio State University
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/people/info_pages/info.php?pid=36&selected=Faculty
ehumeling.ohio-state.edu

Yetunde Laniran, Ph.D. 1992, Advisor: G. N. Clements
“Intonation in Tone Languages: The Phonetic Implementation of Tones in Yoruba”
Affiliation: Center for Spoken Language Understanding,
Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Portland
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/
Ylaniranaol.com

Der-Hwa Rau, Ph.D. 1992, Advisor: J. Wolff
“A Grammar of Atayal”
Affiliation: Professor, Department of English, Literature, and Linguistics
Providence University, Taiwan
http://www1.pu.edu.tw/~dhrau
dhraupu.edu.tw

Susana Sainz, Ph.D. 1992, Advisor: G. N. Clements
“A Noncyclic Approach to the Lexical Phonology of English”
Affiliation: Instituto Normal Superior " Pluriétnico del Oriente y Chaco" (INSPOC),
Camiri Santa Cruz, Bolivia
http://www.nur.edu/proyectos/normales.asp
ssainzcidis.ws, ssainzceibo.entelnet.bo

David Silva, Ph.D. 1992, Advisor: J. Whitman
“The Phonetics and Phonology of Stop Lenition in Korean”
Affiliation: Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington
daviduta.edu

L. Sumangala Sunil Kariyakarawana, Ph.D. 1992, Advisor: J. Gair
"Long Distance Dependencies in Sinhala: The Syntax of Focus and Wh"

Tomoyuki Yoshida, Ph.D 1992, Advisor: C.T. J. Huang
“Quantifiers and the Theory of Movement”

Renée Zakia, Ph.D. 1992, Advisor: J. Kingston
“The Role of Transition Duration in the Perception of Speech and Nonspeech”
Affiliation: Boystown National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE
zahiaboystown.org