PhD Alumni
2022
Ben Eischens
Dissertation: Tone, phonation, and the phonology-phonetics interface in San Martín Peras Mixtec
Andrew Hedding
Dissertation: How to move a focus: The syntax of alternative particles
Lisa Hofmann
Dissertation: Anaphora and Negation
Nick Van Handel
Dissertation: The Sound of Silence: Investigations of Implicit Prosody
2021
Kelsey Sasaki
Dissertation: Components of Coherence
Tom Roberts
Dissertation: How to make believe: inquisitivity, veridicality, and evidentiality in belief reports
Dissertation: Extraction from Relative Clauses: An Experimental Investigation of Variable Island Effects in English
2020
Steven Foley
PostDoc Researcher-Lecturer, Princeton University
Dissertation: Case, agreement, and sentence processing in Georgian
Margaret Kroll
Language Engineer, Amazon
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dissertation: Comprehending Ellipsis
Maho Morimoto
PostDoc at Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Dissertation: Geminated Liquids in Japanese: A production study
Jed Sam Pizarro-Guevara
PostDoc Researcher, University of Massachusetts
Dissertation: When Human Universal Meets Language Specific
2019
Jennifer Bellik
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dissertation: Vowel Intrusion in Turkish Complex Onsets
Hitomi Hirayama
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce at Keio University
Dissertation: Asking and Answering Questions: Discourse Strategies in Japanese
2018
Nick Kalivoda
Visiting Associate Specialist, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dissertation: Syntax-Prosody Mismatches in Optimality Theory
Kelsey Kraus
Senior Voice User Interface Designer, Cisco
Dissertation: Great Intonations
Jason Ostrove
Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dissertation: When p-Agreement Targets Topics: The View from San Martín Peras Mixtec
Deniz Rudin
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
Dissertation: Rising Above Commitment
Erik Zyman
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
Dissertation: On the Driving Force for Syntactic Movement
2017
Karen Duek
Dissertation: Sorting a complex world: An experimental study of polysemy and copredication in container and committee nominals
2016
Nathan Arnett
Dissertation: Interference and complexity effects in subject retrieval
Karl DeVries
Senior Linguist, Google
Dissertation: Independence friendly dynamic semantics: Integrating exceptional scope, anaphora and their interactions
Anna Greenwood
Program Manager, Text-to-Speech, Google
Dissertation: An experimental investigation of phonetic naturalness
Bern Samko
Senior Linguist, Appen
Dissertation: Syntax and information Structure: The grammar of English inversions
2014
Judith Fiedler
Teacher, August Martin High School, New York, NY
Dissertation: Germanic it-clefts: Structural variation and semantic uniformity
Boris Harizanov
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Dissertation: On the mapping from syntax to morphophonology
Mark Norris
Language Data Engineer, Amazon
Dissertation: A theory of nominal concord
Oliver Northrup
Analytical Linguist, Google
Dissertation: Grounds for commitment
Anie Thompson
Associate Linguistics Consultant, H5
Dissertation: Beyond deep and surface: Explorations in the typology of anaphora
2013
Matthew Tucker
Data Scientist, Amazon
Dissertation: Building verbs in Maltese
2012
Ryan Bennett
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Dissertation: Foot conditioned phonotactics and prosodic constituency
Robert Henderson
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
Dissertation: Ways of pluralizing events
Jeremy O'Brien
Analytical Linguist, Google
Dissertation: An experimental approach to debuccalization and supplementary gestures
2011
Scott AnderBois
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Brown University
Dissertation: Issues and alternatives
2010
Vera GribanovaAssociate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Dissertation: Composition and locality: The morphosyntax and phonology of the Russian verbal complex
Abby Kaplan
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Utah
Dissertation: Phonology shaped by phonetics: The case of intervocalic lenition
Jessica Kirchner
Senior Linguist, Google
Dissertation: Minimal reduplication
Justin Nuger
Senior Language Engineer, Amazon Music
Dissertation: Architecture of the Palauan verbal complex
2009
Ruth Kramer
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University
Dissertation: Definite markers, phi features and agreement: A morphosyntactic investigation of the Amharic DP
David Teeple
Senior Language Engineer, Amazon Lab126
Dissertation: Biconditional prominence correlation
2008
Aaron Kaplan
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Linguistics, University of Utah
Dissertation: Noniterativity is an emergent property of grammar
Kyle Rawlins
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University
Dissertation: Concession, conditionals, and free choice
2007
Peter Alrenga
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers
Dissertation: Dimensionality in the semantics of comparatives
Ascander Dost
Lead Senior Software Engineer, SalesforceIQ
Dissertation: Linearization, square pegs, and round holes
James Isaacs
Senior Software Engineer, GovWizely
Dissertation: Supposition in discourse
Florence Woo
TranslatorsCafé.com
Dissertation: Prepositional predicates in Nuu-chah-nulth
2006
Anya Lunden
Associate Professor, Linguistics Program, Department of English, College of William and Mary
Dissertation: Weight, final lengthening and stress: A phonetic and phonological case study of Norwegian
Emily Manetta
Associate Professor, Program of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, University of Vermont
Dissertation: Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu
Anne Sturgeon
Project Manager, Agent IQ
Dissertation: The syntax and pragmatics of contrastive topic in Czech
Lynsey Wolter
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Dissertation: That's that: The semantics and pragmatics of demonstrative noun phrases
2005
Daniel Karvonen
Senior Lecturer, Finnish Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Dissertation: Word prosody in Finnish
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Associate Professor, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, University of Georgia
Dissertation: Beyond coherence: The syntax of opacity in German
2004
Line Mikkelsen
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
Dissertation: Specifying who: On the structure, meaning, and use of specificational copular clauses
Andrew Wedel
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
Dissertation: Self-organization and categorical behavior in phonology
2003
Dylan Herrick
Department Chair, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma
Dissertation: An acoustic analysis of phonological vowel reduction in six varieties of Catalan
Christopher Potts
Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Dissertation: The logic of conventional implicatures
Nathan Sanders
Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream), Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
Dissertation: Opacity and sound change in the Polish lxicon
2002
Rodrigo Gutiérrez Bravo
Professor of Linguistics, El Colegio de México
Dissertation: Structural markedness and syntactic structure: A study of word order and the left periphery in Mexican Spanish
2001
Christine Gunlogson
Research Associate, Department of Linguistics, University of Rochester
Dissertation: True to form: Rising and falling declaratives as questions in English
Kazutaka Kurisu
Professor, Department of English, Kobe College
Dissertation: The phonology of morpheme realization
2000
Ryan Bush
Dissertation: A typology of focal categories
Adam Panter Ussishkin
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona
Dissertation: The emergence of fixed prosody
1999
Jason Merchant
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, and Lorna P. Straus Professor, Department of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago
Dissertation: The syntax of silence: Sluicing, islands, and identity in ellipsis
1998
Motoko Katayama
Dissertation: Optimality Theory and Japanese loanword phonology
Rachel Walker
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California
Dissertation: Nasalization, neutral segments, and opacity effects
1997
Chris Kennedy
William H. Colvin Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago
Dissertation: Projecting the adjective: The syntax and semantics of gradability and comparison
Philip Spaelti
Assistant Professor, Kobe Shoin Women's University
Dissertation: Dimensions of variation in multi-pattern reduplication
1996
Eric Potsdam
Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Florida
Dissertation: Syntactic issues in the English imperative
1995
Brian O'Herin
International Linguistics Coordinator, SIL International
Dissertation: Case and agreement in Abaza
1994
Cheryl Black
Linguistics Consultant, SIL International
Dissertation: Quiegolani Zapotec syntax
Theodore Fernald
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Swarthmore College
Dissertation: On the nonuniformity of the individual- and stage-level effects
Michael Johnston
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Research Lab for Linguistics and Computation, Brandeis University
Dissertation: The semantics of adverbial adjuncts
Robin Schafer
Dissertation: Nonfinite predicate initial constructions in Breton
Peter Svenonius
Professor and Director of CASTL, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Tromsø
Dissertation: Dependent nexus: Small clauses in English and the Scandinavian languages
1993
H. Andrew Black
SIL International
Dissertation: Constraint-ranked derivation: A serial approach to optimization
Cathal Doherty
Associate Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco
Dissertation: Clauses without 'that': The case for bare sentential complementation in English
1992
Louise McNally
Professor of Linguistics, Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Dissertation: An interpretation for the English existential construction
1991
Chris Barker
Professor, Department of Linguistics, New York University
Dissertation: Possessive descriptions
John Moore
Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego
Dissertation: Reduced constructions in Spanish
