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Alumni of the graduate program in linguistics are listed below, in backwards chronological order. Alumni with home pages have their names highlighted as hyperlinks.

Some dissertations are available from SLUGPubs; this is indicated by a link to the abstract on the SLUGPubs site. Ordering and pricing information for available dissertations can be found here.

Peter Alrenga, 2007
Email: palrenga at gmail.com
Thesis: Dimensionality in the Semantics of Comparatives

Ascander Dost, 2007
Email:
Thesis: Linearization, Square Pegs, and Round Holes

James Isaacs, 2007
Email: isaacs at ucsc.edu
Thesis: Supposition in Discourse

Florence Woo, 2007
Email: woo.florence at gmail.com
Thesis: Prepositional Predicates in Nuu-chah-nulth

Anya Lunden, 2006
Email: lunden at ucsc.edu
Thesis: Weight, final lengthening and stress: A phonetic and phonological case study of Norwegian

Emily Manetta , 2006
Email: Emily.Manetta at uvm.edu
Thesis: Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu

Anne Sturgeon, 2006
Email: annemar at alumni.duke.edu
Thesis: The Syntax and Pragmatics of Contrastive Topic in Czech

Lynsey Wolter, 2006
Email: lwolter at bcs.rochester.edu
Thesis: That's That: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstrative Noun Phrases

Daniel Karvonen, 2005
Email: karvo001 at umn.edu
Thesis: Word Prosody in Finnish

Line Mikkelsen, 2004
Email: mikkelsen at berkeley.edu
Thesis: Specifying Who: On the Structure, Meaning, and Use of Specificational Copular Clauses (SLUGPubs abstract)

Andy Wedel, 2004
Email: wedel at u.arizona.edu
Thesis: Self-organization and Categorical Behavior in Phonology

Dylan Herrick, 2003
Email: dylan at human.mie-u.ac.jp
Thesis: An Acoustic Analysis of Phonological Vowel Reduction in Six Varieties of Catalan (SLUGPubs abstract)

Christopher Potts, 2003
Email: potts at linguist.umass.edu
Thesis: The Logic of Conventional Implicatures

Nathan Sanders, 2003
Email: nsanders at wso.williams.edu
Thesis:Opacity and Sound Change in the Polish Lexicon(SLUGPubs abstract)

Rodrigo Gutierrez Bravo, 2002
Email: gutierrz at juarez.ciesas.edu.mx
Thesis: Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure: A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish (SLUGPubs abstract)

Christine Gunlogson, 2001
Email: gunlog at ling.rochester.edu
Thesis: True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English

Kazutaka Kurisu, 2001
Email: kurisu at mail.kobe-c.ac.jp
Thesis: The Phonology of Morpheme Realization (SLUGPubs abstract)

Ryan Bush, 2000
Email: ryan at bevocal.com
Thesis: A Typology of Focal Categories

Jason Merchant, 1999
Email: merchant at uchicago.edu
Thesis: The Syntax of Silence: Sluicing, Islands, and Identity in Ellipsis (SLUGPubs abstract)

Motoko Katayama, 1998
Email: katayama at japan.email.ne.jp
Thesis: Optimality Theory and Japanese Loanword Phonology (SLUGPubs abstract)

Rachel Walker, 1998
Email: rwalker at usc.edu
Thesis: Nasalization, Neutral Segments, and Opacity Effects (SLUGPubs abstract)

Chris Kennedy, 1997
Email: ck at uchicago.edu
Thesis: Projecting the Adjective: The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison (SLUGPubs abstract)

Philip Spaelti, 1997
Email: spaelti at sils.shoin.ac.jp
Thesis: Dimensions of Variation in Multi-pattern Reduplication

Eric Potsdam, 1996
Email: potsdam at ufl.edu
Thesis: Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative

Brian O'Herin, 1995
Email: brian_oherin at sil.org
Thesis: Case and Agreement in Abaza

Cheryl Black, 1994
Email: Cheri_Black at sil.org
Thesis: Quiegolani Zapotec Syntax

Theodore Fernald, 1994
Email: tfernal1 at swarthmore.edu
Thesis: On the Nonuniformity of the Individual- and Stage-Level Effects

Michael Johnston, 1994
Email: johnston at research.att.com
Thesis: The Semantics of Adverbial Adjuncts

Robin Schafer, 1994
Thesis: Nonfinite Predicate Initial Constructions in Breton

Peter Svenonius, 1994
Email: peter.svenonius at hum.uit.no
Thesis: Dependent Nexus: Small Clauses in English and the Scandinavian Languages

H. Andrew Black, 1993
Email: Andy.Black at sil.org
Thesis: Constraint-Ranked Derivation: A Serial Approach to Optimization

Cathal Doherty, 1993
Email: Cathal.Doherty at ucd.ie
Thesis: Clauses Without 'That': The Case for Bare Sentential Complementation in English

Louise McNally, 1992
Email: louise.mcnally at upf.edu
Thesis: An Interpretation for the English Existential Construction

Chris Barker, 1991
Email: chris.barker at nyu.edu
Thesis: Possessive Descriptions

John Moore, 1991
Email: moorej at ucsd.edu
Thesis: Reduced Constructions in Spanish

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Tristan Davenport, 2007
Thesis: Alternations in Place & Laryngeality: Coda Conditions and Repair Strategies

Paul Jensen, 2007
Thesis: On 'Otagai'

Jessamy Norton-Ford, 2007
Thesis: Focus and Pitch Accent in English

Nicholas Reynolds, 2007
Thesis: Whatever and Free Choice: Beyond Episodicity

Noah Constant, 2006
Thesis: English Rise-Fall-Rise: A study in the Semantics and Pragmatics of Intonation

Allison Largent, 2006
Thesis: A Phonological Analysis of Italian Preposizioni Articolate

Dan Roth, 2006
Thesis: Constraints on Lexicalization

Evynn Testa-Avila, 2006
Thesis: Relative Case Attraction in Ancient Greek

Ember Van Allen, 2006
Thesis: The Phonetics and Phonology of Low Vowel Lengthening in Hungarian

Marc Sciglimpaglia, 2005
Thesis: Historical Labial Weakening in Japanese

Laura Buhl, 2005
Thesis: Coreference, Bound Anaphora and Configurationality in Tagalog

Stuart La Rosa, 2005
Thesis: Cluster Simplification and sonorant alternations in Catalan

Lindsay Jones, 2004
Thesis: Movement and Negation in Stripping Constructions

Khue Dinh Duong, 2004
Thesis: A Syntactic Account of Vietnamese Nominal Phrases Within the Framework of X-bar Theory and Linear Correspondence Axiom

Chelsea Strong, 2004
Thesis: Russian Stress Shift Within the Context of Realize Morpheme and Anti-Faithfulness

Sam Zoranovich, 2004
Thesis: The Phonotactics of Doctor Seuss's Nonsense Words

Quinn Gray, 2003
Thesis: Language Transfer Effects on L2 Phonological Acquisition: L2 Perception and Production of Japanese Vowel Length Contrast

Afton Lewis, 2003
Thesis: A Minimal Syntax for Perception Verb Complements

Tami Schuyler, 2002
Thesis: Wh-Movement out of the Site of VP Ellipsis

James Darrow, 2001
Email: jdarrow at angelfire.com
Thesis: Relative Clauses in Syrian Arabic: Two Reconstruction Problems

Naruemon Wannapaiboon, 2001
Thesis: Thai Relative Clauses: Evidence for (non) movement analysis

Brian Lindsey, 2000
Thesis: Markedness and Optimality Theory in second language phonology

Jay Lloyd, 2000
Thesis: How Strict is Strict? Variation and Strict Ranking

Shira Nobles, 2000
Thesis: Possessive Dative in Hebrew: The centrality of SpecVP

Michael Roberts, 2000
Thesis: Information structure, proto-roles, and argument-inversion: an OT analysis

Emily Urban, 1999
Thesis: Influence of morphological categories on English place assimilation

Teal Bissell, 1999
Email: bissell at alum.mit.edu
Thesis: Further Evidence for Null Pronominal Variables

Davina Ramirez, 1999
Email: xingbing at aol.com
Thesis: Proper names Reanalyzed: A Unified Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of Proper Names

Jaime Rodriguez, 1998
Thesis: Relativizing Weight to Stress: An OT Approach to Quantity Sensitivity

Jenny Almy, 1997
Thesis: Licensing Quantifiers: The W-alles Construction in German

Ken Bame, 1997
Email: kbame at cataphora.com
Thesis: Lexical Aspect and the English Progressive in a Generative Lexicon

Naomi Devlin, 1997
Thesis: Pronominal Anaphora and the Quantified Phrase

Peter Schult, 1997
Thesis: Suppression of the Marked and Emergence of the Unmarked: Reduplication in Attic Greek

Kathryn Zally, 1997
Thesis: Quantification at a Distance in French Subjects

Chris Modee, 1996
Thesis: Output-Output Correspondence and Inside-Out Effects in Chamorro

Juliette Tanner, 1996
Thesis: An Examination of Word Borrowing in Japanese

Michael Bene, 1995
Thesis: A Feature Geometrical Approach to Vowel Coalescence

Denis Nepveu, 1994
Thesis: Georgian and Bella Coola: Headless Syllables and Syllabic Obstruents

Selene Tsoi, 1994
E mail: selene_tsoi at yahoo.com
Thesis: Cantonese Syllable Co-occurrence Restrictions in Optimality Theory
Selene lives in Hong Kong.

John Alderete, 1993
Email: alderete at sfu.ca
Thesis: Iteratives in Jamaican Creole

Kathleen Bedell Garcia, 1993
Thesis: Spanish Negation and the I Projection

David Duryea, 1991
Thesis: Issues in Thai Template Phonology: Word Chains and Word Reversal