#  1970s 

 



- **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*



 

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