# Graduate Program Alumni ## expand\_more Open all sections Close all sections ### 2020s expand\_more #### 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" #### 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](mailto:ytliu6688@gmail.com), 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](https://wilcoxeg.github.io/), Assistant Professor in Linguistics, Georgetown University - Dissertation: "Informative presupposition and accommodation" #### 2021 - [Aurore Gonzalez](https://auroregonzalez.github.io/), Research Fellow, Universita degli Studi di Milano BICOCCA, Dipartmento di Psicologna - Dissertation: "Polar questons and interrogative particles - a crosslinguistic investigation" - [Gunnar Lund](https://gunnarnl.github.io/), Machine Learning Engineer - Responsible AI, Apple - Dissertation: "Pluractionality in progress" - [Julia Sturm](https://sites.google.com/view/juliasturm), 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](https://yuyinhe.wordpress.com/), Lecturer, Beijing Language and Culture University, Department of Linguistics - Dissertation: "Time in Mandarin: the Fingerprints of Tense and Finiteness" ### 2010s expand\_more ### 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](https://www.zuzannazfuchs.com/pommlab.html) 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 ### 2000s expand\_more ### 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 1. 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 ### 1990s expand\_more - **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* ### 1980s expand\_more - **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* ### 1970s expand\_more - **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* ### 1960s expand\_more - **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*