# 2010s #### 2019 ##### Cristina Aggazzotti, Postdoctoral Fellow, 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, Language Engineer, Amazon, Cambridge, MA ##### 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 Heritage Grammar and Processing Lab, 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 AlbanyDissertation: "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, Associate Professor of Classics and Linguistics, Department of Classical Studies, Boston University ##### 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 ##### [Administration 2024-25](/pages/administration) [Undergraduate concentrators](/pages/undergraduate-concentrators) [Affiliated departments](/pages/affiliated-departments) [Alumni](/pages/Alumni)