#  2000s 

 



####  **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"

#####  **Ruixi Ai, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, California State University, Long Beach**

#####  **Dissertation: "Elliptical Predicated Constructions in Mandarin"**

#####  ****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******** 

####  **********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******** 



 

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