#  1980s 

 



- **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*



 

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