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2011

Heather Mahan
Thesis: Approaching Any as a Universal Indefinite

Kevin Reschke
Thesis: POLITICAL-ADS: An annotated corpus for modeling event-level evaluativity

2010

Angela Aiello
Thesis: A Phonetic Examination of California

Nico Feria
Thesis: Inverting as-Parentheticals

Nicholas LaCara
Thesis: Verbal Ellipsis in the Nominal Domain

2009

Allison Day
Thesis: Nasalization of Voiced Obstruents in Japanese

Amanda Morris
Thesis: Polarity Ellipsis and Negative Stripping

2008

Katrina Vahedi
Thesis: Participial Gapping: Evidence for Post-Syntactic Morphological Agreement

Matthew Barros
Thesis: Verbless Questions in Brazilian Portuguese

SueAnne (Gigi) Ying
Thesis: The Semantics and Pragmatics of `gauging' Questions

2007

Tristan Davenport
Thesis: Alternations in Place & Laryngeality: Coda Conditions and Repair Strategies

Paul Jensen
Thesis: On 'Otagai'

Jessamy Norton-Ford
Thesis: Focus and Pitch Accent in English

Nicholas Reynolds
Thesis: Whatever and Free Choice: Beyond Episodicity

2006

Noah Constant
Thesis: English Rise-Fall-Rise: A study in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Intonation

Allison Largent
Thesis: A Phonological Analysis of Italian Preposizioni Articolate

Dan Roth
Thesis: Constraints on Lexicalization

Evynn Testa-Avila
Thesis: Relative Case Attraction in Ancient Greek

Ember Van Allen
Thesis: The Phonetics and Phonology of Low Vowel Lengthening in Hungarian

2005

Marc Sciglimpaglia
Thesis: Historical Labial Weakening in Japanese

Laura Buhl
Thesis: Coreference, Bound Anaphora and Configurationality in Tagalog

Stuart La Rosa
Thesis: Cluster Simplification and sonorant alternations in Catalan

Randall Orr
Thesis: Phonetic Vowel Reduction in Danish

Adam Savel
Thesis: Free-Variation in Yiddish Hypocoristics

Alia Sperling
Thesis: The Syntax of Not-So-Free Relatives

2004

Elena Innes
Thesis: Faithfulness in Russian Paradigms

Lindsay Jones
Thesis: Movement and Negation in Stripping Constructions

Khue Dinh Duong
Thesis: A Syntactic Account of Vietnamese Nominal Phrases Within the Framework of X-bar Theory and Linear Correspondence Axiom

Chelsea Strong
Thesis: Russian Stress Shift Within the Context of Realize Morpheme and Anti-Faithfulness

Sam Zoranovich
Thesis: The Phonotactics of Doctor Seuss's Nonsense Words

2003

Matthew Chisholm
Thesis: Ellipsis in DP

Patrick Davidson
Thesis: Atemplatic Reduplication in Ojibwa

Quinn Gray
Thesis: Language Transfer Effects on L2 Phonological Acquisition: L2 Perception and Production of Japanese Vowel Length Contrast

Afton Lewis
Thesis: A Minimal Syntax for Perception Verb Complements

Irena Polic
Thesis: Rethinking the Degree Phrase

Susan Wade

2002

Suzanne Lyon

2001

James Darrow
Thesis: Relative Clauses in Syrian Arabic: Two Reconstruction Problems

Tami Schuyler
Thesis: Wh-Movement out of the Site of VP Ellipsis

Bryndon LaFollette
Thesis: A Model of Tone Inventory Derivation

Naruemon Wannapaiboon
Thesis: Thai Relative Clauses: Evidence for (non) movement analysis

2000

Sacha Arnold
Thesis: Existential Amount Relatives

Brian Lindsey
Thesis: Markedness and Optimality Theory in second language phonology

Jay Lloyd
Thesis: How Strict is Strict? Variation and Strict Ranking

Shira Nobles
Thesis: Possessive Dative in Hebrew: The centrality of SpecVP

Michael Roberts
Thesis: Information structure, proto-roles, and argument-inversion: an OT analysis

1999

Emily Urban
Thesis: Influence of morphological categories on English place assimilation

Teal Bissell
Thesis: Further Evidence for Null Pronominal Variables

Davina Ramirez
Thesis: Proper names Reanalyzed: A Unified Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of Proper Names

Jason Riggle
Thesis: Relational Markedness in Bantu Vowel Harmony

1998

Lotus Goldberg
Thesis: VP Ellipsis and Clause Structure in Modern Hebrew

Jaime Rodriguez
Thesis: Relativizing Weight to Stress: An OT Approach to Quantity Sensitivity

1997

Jenny Almy
Thesis: Licensing Quantifiers: The W-alles Construction in German

Ken Bame
Thesis: Lexical Aspect and the English Progressive in a Generative Lexicon

Naomi Devlin
Thesis: Pronominal Anaphora and the Quantified Phrase

Peter Schult
Thesis: Suppression of the Marked and Emergence of the Unmarked: Reduplication in Attic Greek

Kathryn Zally
Thesis: Quantification at a Distance in French Subjects

1996

Joe Eskenazi
Thesis: Bare Objects and the NP/DP Distinction

Chris Modee
Thesis: Output-Output Correspondence and Inside-Out Effects in Chamorro

Juliette Tanner
Thesis: An Examination of Word Borrowing in Japanese

1995

Michael Bene
Thesis: A Feature Geometrical Approach to Vowel Coalescence

Lorraine Bryan
Thesis: Russian Focus Questions

Erin Duncan

Rachel Manaster
Thesis: Agr in DP (Evidence from Italian)

1994

Mika Kizu
Thesis: Identification of NP Ellipsis in Japanese

Denis Nepveu
Thesis: Georgian and Bella Coola: Headless Syllables and Syllabic Obstruents

Selene Tsoi
Thesis: Cantonese Syllable Co-occurrence Restrictions in Optimality Theory

1993

John Alderete
Thesis: Iteratives in Jamaican Creole

Kathleen Bedell Garcia
Thesis: Spanish Negation and the I Projection

Paula Iveland

Tobias Olney

1992

Lucy Kuntz

Charles Wallace

1991

David Duryea
Thesis: Issues in Thai Template Phonology: Word Chains and Word Reversal

Andrew Eatough

Drew Herman

Scarlett Robbins
Thesis: Metrical Foot Structure in Maidu

1989

Mitzi Morris
Thesis: Swedish Nickname Formation