- 1987: Victoria Bergvall (Dept. of Humanities, Michigan Tech University)
Dissertation: Focus in Kikuyu and Universal Grammar
- 1987: Mark Hale (Dept. of Classics, Modern Languages, and Linguistics, Concordia University)
Dissertation: Studies in the Comparative Syntax of the Oldest Indo-Iranian
- 1985: Jaklin Kornfitt (Dept. of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Syracuse University)
Dissertation: Case Marking, Agreement and Empty Categories in Turkish
- 1985: John Whitman (Dept. of Linguistics, Cornell University)
Dissertation: The Phonological Basis for the Comparison of Japanese and Korean
- 1983: Karin Michelson (Dept. of Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo)
Dissertation: A Comparative Study of Accent in the Five Nations Iroquoian Languages
- 1982: Brent Vine (Dept. of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles)
Dissertation: Indo-European Verbal Formations in *-d-
- 1980: John D. Nichols (Dept. of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota)
Dissertation: Ojibwe Morphology
- 1980: Annie Zaenen (PARC. Palo Alto)
Dissertation: Extraction Rules in Icelandic