Graduate Program Alumni
2025
- Hayley Ross, Senior Deep Learning Scientist, NVIDIA
- Dissertation: "Artificial intelligence and fake reefs: what privative inferences and LLMs tell us about
adjective-noun composition"
- Dissertation: "Artificial intelligence and fake reefs: what privative inferences and LLMs tell us about
2024
- Yuhan Zhang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
- Dissertation: "The rational processing of language illusions"
- Lukas Kahl, Lecturer in Indo-European Linguistics, Humboldt University of Berlin
- Dissertation: "Diachronic studies in Indo-European Degree morphology"
- Ian Lewis Kirby
- Dissertation: "Wide meanings across narrow contexts: Sakha particles and the grammar of alternatives"
- Deniz Satik
- Dissertation: "Clausal Deficiency"
2023
- Zachary Rothstein-Dowden, Lecturer, Harvard Division of Continuing Education
- Dissertation: "Dental-aspirate presents in Greek and Indo-European"
- Tamisha Lauren Tan, Assistant Professor, Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Dissertation: "Voice and valency in Amarasi: Topics in synchronic and diachronic Morphosyntax"
- Niels Kuhlert, Lecturer, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Dissertation: "A morphological typology of non-root alternations: Invastion, suppletion and allomorphy"
2022
- Shannon Bryant, Postdoctoral Associate, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
- Dissertation: "Lost in space: Pronoun choice in English locative prepositional phrases"
- Yingtong Liu, Senior Data Scientist, Vanguard
- Dissertation: "Evidence from behavioral experiments: Information theory and discourse-based accounts of long-distance dependencies"
- Joshua Martin, UX Research, Spotify
- Dissertation: "Compositional routes to (non)intersectivity"
- Giuseppe Ricciardi, Scientific Publishing Commissioning Editor at Springer Nature
- Dissertation: "On the linguistic encoding of the notion of inference"
- Ethan Wilcox, Assistant Professor in Linguistics, Georgetown University
- Dissertation: "Informative presupposition and accommodation"
2021
- Aurore Gonzalez, Research Fellow, Universita degli Studi di Milano BICOCCA, Dipartmento di Psicologna
- Dissertation: "Polar questons and interrogative particles - a crosslinguistic investigation"
- Gunnar Lund, Machine Learning Engineer - Responsible AI, Apple
- Dissertation: "Pluractionality in progress"
- Julia Sturm, Researcher, Languages and Myths in Prehistory, Department of History and
Archaeology, Uppsala University- Dissertation: "Nasal presents from Homer to Attic Greek: Analogy and reanalysis in the Greek verb"
2020
- Yuyin He, Lecturer, Beijing Language and Culture University, Department of Linguistics
- Dissertation: "Time in Mandarin: the Fingerprints of Tense and Finiteness"
2019
- Cristina Aggazzotti, Assistant Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University
- Dissertation: "A unified analysis of reflexives and reciprocals in synchronous tree adjoining grammar
- Dorothy Ahn, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University
- Dissertation: "The determinancy scale: a competition mechanism for anaphoric expressions"
- Laurence B-Violette, Services Data Scientist (NLP), Five9
- Dissertation: "The development of the polarity subjunctive in Romance languages"
- Lena Borise, Researcher, CNRS Formal Linguistics Laboratory, Paris
- Dissertation: "Phrasing is key: the syntax and prosody of focus in Georgian"
- Zuzanna Fuchs, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Director, PoMMLab University of Southern California
- Dissertation: "Gender in the nominal domain: contributions from bilinguialism and eye-tracking"
- Dora Mihoc, Technical Author, Canonical/Juju
- Dissertation: "Decomposing logic: modified numerals, polarity, and exhaustification"
- Christina Zlogar
- Dissertation: "An experimental pragmatic investigation of depictive co-speech gestures"
2018
- Gašper Beguš, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
- Dissertation: "Unnatural Phonology A Synchrony-Diachrony Interface Approach"
- Yujing Huang, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology, UC Davis, Davis, California
- Dissertation: "Linking form to meaning:reevaluating the evidence for the Unaccusative Hypothesis"
- Pooja Paul, Founder, Habitable, San Francisco
- Dissertation: "The Linguistic and Cultural Representation of Scalar Alternatives: 'Number' and 'Only' as Case Studies"
- Elaine Stranahan, Lecturer, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Dissertation: "Effects of Working Memory Load and Speaker Reliability on Contrastive Inference and Quantifier Processing"
2017
- Marek Majer, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Philology, Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz
- Dissertation: "The Caland System in the North: Archaism and Innovation in Property-Concept/State Morphology in Balto-Slavic"
2016
- Yimei Xiang, Assistant Professor in Linguistics, Rutgers University
- Dissertation: "Interpreting questions with non-exhaustive answers"
- Jenny Lee (Data Scientist in NLP/Linguistics, Chegg, San Francisco)
- Dissertation: "Split intransitivity in Ranmo"
2015
- Sun-Hee Bae (Lecturer of Writing, NYU Abu Dhabi)
- Dissertation:"The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Native and Near-Native Korean"
- Cheng-Yu (Edwin) Tsai, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Macau
- Dissertation:"Toward a Theory of Mandarin Quantification"
2014
- Lauren Eby Clemens, Associate Professor, Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science and Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany
- Dissertation: "Prosodic noun incorporation and verb-initial syntax"
- Laura Grestenberger, Elise Richter Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Iranian Studies
- Dissertation:"Feature Mismatch: Deponency in Indo-European Languages
- Chi-Ming (Louis) Liu, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
- Dissertation: "A Modular Theory of Radical 'Pro' Drop"
- Gregory Scontras, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, School of Social Sciences at University of California, Irvine
- Dissertation: "The Semantics of Measurement"
2013
- Hannes Fellner, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, and Division Digital Philology at the Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies
- Dissertation: Studies in Tocharian Adjective Formation
- Andreea Cristina Nicolae, Principal Investigator, The Center for General Linguistics (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
- Dissertation: Any Questions? Polarity as a Window into the Structure of Questions
2012
- Li Julie Jiang, Associate Professor of Chinese Linguistics, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
- Dissertation: "Nominal Arguments and Language Variation"
- Alexander Nikolaev, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus
- Dissertation: "Diachronic Poetics and Language History: Studies in Archaic Greek Poetry"
- Hazel Pearson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University
- Dissertation: "The Sense of Self: Topics in the Semantics of De Se Expressions"
- Jacopo Romoli, Professor of Semantics and Pragmatics, Heinrich Heine University, Dusseldorf
- Dissertation: "Soft but Strong. Neg-raising, Soft Triggers, and Exhaustification"
2011
- Peter Jenks, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley
- Dissertation: 'The Hidden Structure of Thai Noun Phrases"
- Sverre Stausland Johnsen, Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo
- Dissertation: "The origin of variation in Norwegian retroflexion"
- Beste Kamali, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Amsterdam Institute of Logic, Language and Computation
- Dissertation: "Topics at the PF Interface of Turkish"
- Hsiu-Chen Daphne Liao,Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
- Dissertation: "Alternatives and exhaustification: Non-Interrogative Uses of Chinese wh-words"
- Hiroki Narita, Faculty of Letters,Department of English, Tokai University, Hiratsuku, Japan
- Dissertation: "Phasing in Full Interpretation"
- Dennis Ott, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa
- Dissertation: "Local Instability the Syntax of ‘Spilt Topics’"
- Clemens Mayr, Professor of Semantics and Pragmatics, Georg-August University of Gottingen
- Dissertation: The Role of Alternatives and Strength in Grammar
2010
- Patrick Liu, Consultant, Boston Academic Consulting Group
- Dissertation: "Investigations in a Simplified Bracketed Grid Approach to Metrical Structure"
- Alexandra (Sasha) Makarova
- Dissertation: "Deep vs. Shallow Processing and Cue Weighting in the Acquisition of Second Language Vowel Categories"
2009
- Bridget Samuels, Project Director, Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, University of Southern California
- Dissertation: "The Structure of Phonological Theory"
2007
- Dominika Baran, Associate Professor, Linguistics and English Departments, Trinity College, Duke University
- Dissertation: "Linguistic Practice, Social Identity, and Ideology: Mandarin Variation in a Taipei County High School"
- Hironobu Kasai, Professor, Department of English, Aoyama Gakuin University
- Dissertation: "Multiple Dominance in Syntax"
- Takaomi Kato, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Languages and Linguistics, Sophia University
- Dissertation: "Symmetries in Coordination"
- Gabriel Poliquin, Principal attorney, Gabriel Poliquin PhD, LLB
- Dissertation: "Canadian French Vowel Harmony "
- Conor Quinn, Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and College of Science, Technology and Health, University of Southern Maine
- Dissertation: Referential-access Dependency in Penobscot
2006
- Ruixi Ai, Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, California State University, Long Beach
- Dissertation: "Elliptical Predicate Constructions in Mandarin"
2004
- Claire Bowern, Professor, Department of Linguistics, Yale University
- Dissertation: "Bardi Verb Morphology in Historical Perspective"
- Ju-Eun Lee, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Soongsil University
- Dissertation: Ditransitive Structures and the (Anti-) Locality Principle
- Kentaro Nakatani, Professor, Konan University, Kobe, Japan
- Dissertation: Predicate Concatenation: A Study of the V-te-V predicate in Japanese
- Balkiz Ozturk, Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Dissertation: Case, Referentiality and Phrase Structure
2003
- Sook Lee, Professor, Department of Korean Language and Literature, Jeonju University
- Dissertation: The Interaction of Verb Semantics and Functional Features in Korean Syntax
- Javier Martin-Gonzalez, Lecturer, Department de Filologia Inglesa (Lengua Inglesa), Universidad de Seville, Spain
- Dissertation: The Syntax of Negation in Spanish
- Patrick Taylor
- Dissertation: Studies in Ancient Anatolian Language and Culture
2002
- Makiko Asano, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures - Japanese, San Francisco State University
- Dissertation: Studies in Japanese Prosody
- Gulsat Aygen, Professor, Department of English, Northern Illinois University
- Dissertation: Finiteness, Case and Clausal Architecture
2001
- Jeffrey Bourns, Digital Scholar Group, Northeastern University
- Dissertation: Studies in the Language of Three Northumbrian Poems
- Grace Moon, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea
- Dissertation: Grammatical and Discourse Properties of the Imperative Subject in English
- 1998: Joshua Katz (Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute)
Dissertation: Topics in Indo-European Personal Pronouns - 1998: Takahiro Iwahata (Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Sophia University, Japan)
Dissertation: Default Case Marking in Japanese - 1998: Lynn Nichols (Principal and AI Strategist, Language Science and AI Policy)
Dissertation: Topics in Zuni Syntax - 1997: Marlyse Baptista (Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan)
Dissertation: The Morphosyntax of Verbs in Capeverdean Creole - 1997: Erich Groat (Editor/Lexicographer, Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt)
Dissertation: A Derivational Program in Syntactic Theory - 1997: Youngjun Jang (Dept. of English Language and Literature, Chung-Ang University)
Dissertation: Tense and Complementizer Feature-Checking - 1997: Dianne Jonas (Dept. of English Linguistics, Goethe University)
Dissertation: Clause Structure and Verb Syntax in Scandinavian and English - 1997: John O’Neil (Chief Data Scientist, Edgewise Networks, Burlington, MA)
Dissertation: Means of Control: Deriving the Properties of PPO in the Minimalist Program - 1997: Elizabeth Pyatt (Linguistics Program and Education Technology Services, Pennsylvania State University)
Dissertation: An Integrated Model of the Phonology and Syntax of Celtic Mutations - 1996: Scott K. Ferguson (Director, Data Analytics and AI, New Era Technology, Houston, TX)
Dissertation: A Feature-Relativized Shortest Move Requirement - 1996: Benjamin W. Fortson (Dept. of Classics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Dissertation: Studies in the Prosody of Plautine Latin - 1996: Soo-Yeon Kim (Dept. of English Language and Literature, Sejong University)
Dissertation: Dependencies: A Study of Anaphoricity and Scrambling - 1996: Geoffrey Poole (Dept. of English Literary and Linguistic Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Dissertation: Transformations Across Components - 1995: Naomi Bolotin (Department of Computer Science, Boston College)
Dissertation: The Effect of Age on Parameter Resetting: Arabic-speaking Children and Adults’ Acquisition of English Relative Clause Structure as Assessed through Interlanguage Data and a Universal Constraint - 1995: Madelyn Kissock (Dept. of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics; Concordia University)
Dissertation: Reflexive-middle Constructions and Verb Raising in Telugu - 1995: Elisabeth Oliver (deceased, Professor Emerita, Dept. of English and Linguistics, Louisiana State University)
Dissertation: The Language of the Early English Laws - 1995: Charles Reiss (Dept. of Classics, Modern Languages, and Linguistics, Concordia University)
Dissertation: A Theory of Assimilation with Special references to Old Icelandic Phonology - 1994: Bert Vaux (Faculty of Modern Languages and Linguistics,Kings College, University of Cambridge)
Dissertation: Armenian Phonology - 1991: John Harkness (Department of Linguistics, University of Minnesota)
Dissertation: An Approach to the Metrical Behavior of Old English Verbs - 1991: Engin Sezer (Dept. of Turkish Studies, Bilkent University, Ankara)
Dissertation: Issues in Turkish Syntax - 1990: Andrew Garrett (Dept. of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley)
Dissertation: The Syntax of Anatolian Pronomial Clitics - 1990: Daniel Radzinski (General Manager, Speech Morphing, Ramat-Gan, Israel)
Dissertation: Mathematics of Unbounded Duplicative and Columnar Construction in Chinese
- 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
- 1979: Höskuldur Thráinsson (Dept. of Icelandic, University of Iceland, Reykavik)
Dissertation: On Complementation in Icelandic - 1978: Brian Joseph (Dept. of Linguistics, The Ohio State University)
Dissertation: Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change: Evidence from Medieval and Modern Greek - 1977: Ellen Kaisse (Dept. of Linguistics, University of Washington)
Dissertation: Hiatus in Modern Greek - 1977: Craig H. Melchert (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Linguistics and Indepartmental Program in Indo-European Studies, UCLA)
Dissertation: Ablative and Instrumental in Hittite - 1976: Sandra Chung (Dept. of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Dissertation: Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian - 1976: Alice Harris (Dept. of Linguistics, Vanderbilt University)
Dissertation: Grammatical Relations in Modern Georgian - 1976: Alan Nussbaum (Dept. of Linguistics, Cornell University)
Dissertation: Caland’s Law and the Caland System - 1976: John Robertson (Dept. of Linguistics, Brigham Young University)
Dissertation: The Structure of Pronoun Incorporation in the Mayan Verbal Complex - 1975: John Colarusso (Dept of Anthropology. McMaster University)
Dissertation: The Northwest Caucasian Languages: A Phonological Survey - 1975: Colette “CG Craig” Grinevald (Department des Sciences du Languages and CNRS lab DDL, University of Lyon, France)
Dissertation: Jacaltec Syntax: a Study of Complex Sentences - 1974: Judith Aissen (Dept. of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Dissertation: The Syntax of Causative Constructions - 1974: Robert Vago (Dept. of Linguistics, The City University of New York)
Dissertation: Hungarian Generative Phonology - 1973: Harald Koch (Dept. of Linguistics, The Australian National University)
Dissertation: Indo-European Denominative Verbs in -nu- - 1973: Alan Timberlake (Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley)
Dissertation: the Objective Nominative - 1972: Peter Jorgensen (Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages, The University of Georgia)
Dissertation: The Extant Icelandic Translations from Middle English - 1972: Michael Silverstein (Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Dissertation: Studies in Penutian, I. California. 1. The Structure of an Etymology - 1971: Michael Connolly (Dept. of Slavic and Eastern Languages, Boston College)
Dissertation: Studies in the Classical Armenian Nominal System - 1971: Irene Fairley (Linguistics Program, Northeastern University)
Dissertation: Syntactic Deviance in the Poetry of E.E. Cummings: A Stylistic Investigation - 1971: John Haiman (Linguistics Program, Macalester College)
Dissertation: Targets and Syntactic Change - 1970: Stig Eliasson (Department of Slavic, Turkic and Circum-Baltic Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Dissertation: Studies in Swedish Phonology - 1970: Sheila Blumstein (Dept. of Linguistics, Brown University)
Dissertation: Phonological Implications of Aphasic Speech - 1970: Guy Carden (Dept. of Linguistics, University of British Columbia)
Dissertation: Logical Predicates and Idiolect Variation in English
- 1969: Ives Goddard (Dept. of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institute)
Dissertation: Delaware Verbal Morphology: A Descriptive and Comparative Study - 1969: Gary D. Miller (Dept. of Classics, University of Florida)
Dissertation: Studies in some Forms of the Genitive Singular in Indo-European