#  1990s 

 



- **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*



 

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