Recent Alumni and Downloadable Dissertations

Recent recipients of the PhD in Linguistics, by year of completion.

2012

Amy M. Campbell.The Morphosyntax of Discontinuous Exponence. Advisor: Line Mikkelsen.
Ramon M. Escamilla, Jr. An Updated Typology of Causative Constructions: Form-Function Mappings in Hupa (California Athabaskan), Chungli Ao (Tibeto-Burman) and Beyond. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Hannah J. Haynie. Studies in the History and Geography of California Languages. Advisor: Andrew Garrett.
Jisup Hong. Connective Polysemy and Clause Linkage Typology in Korean. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Iksoo Kwon. Evidence Perception, Assessment and Time in Korean Verbal Complex. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Dominic Yu. Proto-Ersuic. Advisor: James Matisoff.

2011

Thera M. Crane. Beyond Time: Temporal and Extra-temporal Functions of Tense and Aspect Marking in Totela, a Bantu Language of Zambia. Co-advisors: Larry Hyman and Lynn Nichols.
Johnny E. George. Politeness in Japanese Sign Language (JSL): Polite JSL expression as evidence for intermodal language contact influence. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Reiko Kataoka. Phonetic and Cognitive Bases of Sound Change. Co-advisors: John Ohala and Keith Johnson.
Russell R. Lee-Goldman. Context in Constructions. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Yao Yao. The Effects of Phonological Neighborhoods on Pronunciation Variation in Conversational Speech. Co-advisors: Keith Johnson and Susanne Gahl.

2010

Eugenia Antic. The Representation of Morphemes in the Russian Lexicon. Co-advisors: Eve Sweetser and Sharon Inkelas.
Charles B. Chang. First Language Phonetic Drift during Second Language Acquisition. Advisor: Keith Johnson.
Rebecca T. Cover. Aspect, Modality, and Tense in Badiaranke. Advisor: Line Mikkelsen.
Ellen K. Dodge. Constructional and Conceptual Composition. Advisor: George Lakoff.
Erin F. Haynes. Phonetic and Phonological Acquisition in Endangered Languages Learned by Adults: A Case Study of Numu (Oregon Northern Paiute). Co-advisors: Alice Gaby and Leanne Hinton.
Michael J. Houser. The Syntax and Semantics of Do So Anaphora. Advisor: Line Mikkelsen.
Shira Eden Katseff. Linguistic constraints on Compensation for Altered Auditory Feedback. Advisor: Keith Johnson.
Nicole E. Marcus. The Gascon Énonciatif Sytem: Past, Present and Future, a Study of Language Contact, Change, Endangerment and Maintenance. Advisor: Gary Holland.
Mischa A. Park-Doob. Gesturing through Time: Holds and Intermodal Timing in the Stream of Speech. Coadvisors: Eve Sweetser and William Hanks.
Maziar Toosarvandani. Association with Foci. Advisor: Line Mikkelsen.

2009

Molly E. Babel. Phonetic and Social Selectivity in Speech Accommodation. Advisor: Keith Johnson.
Andrew Dolbey. BioFrameNet: a FrameNet Extension to the Domain of Molecular Biology. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Jenny S. Lederer. Understanding the Self: The Distribution of Anaphora within Prepositional Phrases. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Teresa McFarland. The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.
Andrew Simpson. The Origin and Development of Nonconcatenative Morphology. Advisor: Gary Holland.
Samuel E. Tilsen. Hierarchical spatiotemporal dynamics of speech rhythm and articulation. Advisor: Keith Johnson.

2008

Gabriela Caballero. Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) Phonology and Morphology. Advisor: Andrew Garrett.
Christian Dicanio. The Phonetics and Phonology of San Martín Itunyoso Trique. Advisor: Keith Johnson.
Marc Ettlinger. Input-driven Opacity. Advisor: Keith Johnson.
Nicholas Fleisher. Adjectives and Infinitives in Composition. Advisor: Line Mikkelsen.
Yuni Kim. Topics in the Phonology and Morphology of San Francisco del Mar Huave. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.
Anne Pycha. Morphological Sources of Phonological Length. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.

2007

Bonnie Jean Henson. The Phonology and Morphosyntax of Kol. Advisor: Larry Hyman.
Wesley Y. Leonard. Miami Language Reclamation in the Home: A Case Study. Advisor: Leanne Hinton.
Karen S. Sullivan. Grammar in Metaphor: A Construction Grammar Account of Metaphoric Language. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Esther Jane Wood. The Semantic Typology of Pluractionality. Advisor: Andrew Garrett.
Fan-Pei Gloria Yang. Conditional Constructions in Mandarin: A Neural Explanation. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.

2006

Olga I. Gurevich. Constructional Morphology: The Georgian Version. Co-advisors: Eve Sweetser and James Blevins.
David R. Mortensen. Logical and Substantive Scales in Phonology. Co-advisors: Sharon Inkelas and James A. Matisoff.
Pawel M. Nowak. Vowel Reduction in Polish. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
Mary E. Paster. Phonological Conditions on Affixation. Co-advisors: Andrew Garrett and Sharon Inkelas.
Ryan K. Shosted. The Aeroacoustics of Nasalized Fricatives. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
Kenneth Van Bik. Proto-Kuki-Chin. Advisor: James A. Matisoff.

2005

Tomoko Yamashita Smith. Affectedness Constructions: How languages Indicate Positive and Negative Events. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Makiko Takekuro. Attunement in interaction: Sequential use of Japanese honorifics. Advisor: Robin T. Lakoff.
William F. Weigel. Yowlumne in the Twentieth Century. Advisor: Leanne L. Hinton.

2004

Rosemary Beam de Azcona. A Coatlan-Loxicah Zapotec Grammar. Advisor: Leanne L. Hinton.
Melinda Y-C. Chen. Speech Lost From Speech: The Cognitive Linguistics of Alienation, Objectification, and Reclaiming. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Lisa J. Conathan. The Linguistic Ecology of Northwestern California: Contact, Functional Convergence and Dialectology. Advisor: Andrew Garrett.
Paul G. Dudis. Depiction of Events in ASL: Conceptual Integration of Temporal Components. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Sara Gesuato. Giving Credit where Credit is Due: the Case of Acknowledgments in Ph.D. Dissertations. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
Josef K. Ruppenhofer. The Interaction of Valence and Information Structure. Advisor: Charles J. Fillmore.
Galen Sibanda. Verbal Phonology and Morphology of Ndebele. Advisor: Larry Hyman.

2003

Laura Buszard-Welcher. Constructional Polysemy and Mental Spaces in Potawatomi Discourse. Advisor: Richard A. Rhodes.
Richard Sterling Cook. Shuo Wen Jie Zi - Dianzi Ban: Digital Recension of the Eastern Han Chinese Grammaticon. Advisor: James A. Matisoff.
Jeffrey Good. Strong Linearity: Three Case Studies Towards a Theory of Morphosyntactic Templatic Constructions. Advisor: Larry Hyman.
Heather R. Jones. Cognitive Aspects of the Grammaticalization of Medieval Welsh Prepositions. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Suzanne Wertheim. Linguistic Purism, Language Shift, and Contact-Induced Change in Tatar. Advisor: Leanne L. Hinton.
Alan C.L. Yu. The Morphology and Phonology of Infixation. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.

2002

Jonathan Barnes. Positional Neutralization: A Phonologization Approach to Typological Patterns. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.
Matthew Juge. Tense and Aspect in Periphrastic Pasts: Evidence from Iberian Romance. Advisor: Andrew Garrett.
Marvin Gould Kramer. Substrate Transfer in Sacramento Creole. Advisor: John J. McWhorter.
Aimée Lahaussois. Aspects of the Grammar of Thulung Rai: an Endangered Himalayan Language. Advisor: James A. Matisoff.
Julie Lewis. Social Influences on Female Speakers' Pitch. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
Nurit Melnik. Verb-Initial Constructions in Modern Hebrew. Advisor: Andreas Kathol.
Jason D. Patent. Are These Truths Self-Evident? Language, Culture and Human Rights in the U.S. and China. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Paula Kadose Radetzky (Rogers). The Functions and Evolution of Topic and Focus Markers. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.

2001

Benjamin Bergen. Of Sound, Mind, and Body: Neural Explanations for Non-categorical Phonology. Advisor: George P. Lakoff.
Leela Bilmes. Sociolinguistic Aspects of Thai Politness. Advisor: Robin T. Lakoff.
Yoon-Suk Chung. Tough Constructions in English: a Construction Grammar Approach. Advisor: Paul Kay.
Gunnar Hansson. Theoretical and Typological Issues in Consonant Harmony. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.
Darya Kavitskaya. Compensatory Lengthening: Phonetics, Phonology, Diachrony. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.
Madelaine Plauché. Acoustic Cues in the Directionality of Stop Consonant Confusions. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
Rungpat Roengpitya. A Study of Vowels, Diphthongs, and Tones in Thai. Advisor: John J. Ohala.

2000

Susanne Gahl. A Usage-based Model of Aphasic Sentence Comprehension. Advisor: Charles J. Fillmore.
Joshua S. Guenter. Vowels of California English before /r/, /l/, and /n/. Advisor: John J. Ohala.
Michael Meacham. A Synchronic and Diachronic Functional Analysis of Hittite -ma. Advisor: Gary Holland.
Kevin Ezra Moore. Spatial Experience and Temporal Metaphors in Wolof: Point of View, Conceptual Mapping, and Linguistic Practice.Advisor: Eve Sweetser.

1999

Jocelyn Ahlers. Proposal For the Use of Cognitive Linguistics in Hupa Language Revitalization.
Jonathan Evans. Historical-Comparative Qiang. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Christopher Johnson. Constructional Grounding: The Role of Interpretational Overlap in Lexical and Constructional Acquisition. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Weera Ostapirat. Proto-Kra. Advisor: James Matisoff.
David Peterson. Discourse-Functional, Historical, and Typological Aspects of Applicative Constructions. Co-advisors: Johanna Nichols and Gary Holland.
Nancy Urban. The School Business: Rethinking Educational Reform. Advisor: George Lakoff.

1998

Anita Liang. The Discourse System of American Lesbians and Gays. Advisor: Robin Lakoff.
Pamela Morgan. Beyond the Issues: A Linguistic and Conceptual Study of American Public Discourse. Advisors: George Lakoff and xxx.
Natasha Warner. The Role of Dynamic Cues in Speech Perception, Spoken Word Recognition, and Phonological Universals. Advisor: John Ohala.

1997

Jon Aske. Basque Word Order and Disorder Principles, Variation, and Prospects. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Anna Berge. Topic and Discourse Structure in West Greenlandic Agreement Constructions. Advisor: Richard Rhodes.
Mary Bucholtz. Borrowed Blackness: African American Vernacular English and European American Youth Identities. Advisor: Robin Lakoff.
David Gamon. The Grammaticalization of Grammatical Relations: A Typological and Historical Study Involving Kashaya Pomo, Old English, and Modern English. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Joseph Grady. Foundations of Meaning: Primary Metaphors and Primary Scenes. Advisors: George Lakoff and Eve Sweetser.
Armindo Ngunga. Lexical Phonology and Morphology of the Ciyao Verb Stem. Advisor: Larry Hyman.
Sarah Taub. Language in the Body: Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.

1996

Norine Berenz. Person and Deixis in Brazilian Sign Language. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Colleen Cotter. Irish on the Air: Media, Discourse, and Minority-language Development. Advisor: Leanne Hinton.
Joyce Mathangwane. Phonetics and Phonology of Ikalanga: A Diachronic and Synchronic Study. Advisor: Larry Hyman.
Kyoko Ohara (Hirose). A constructional Approach to Japanese Internally Headed Relativization. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Orhan Orgun. Sign-Based Morphology and Phonology with special attention to Optionality Theory. Advisor: Larry Hyman.
Cheryl Zoll. Parsing Below the Segment in a Constraint Based Framework. Advisor: Sharon Inkelas.

1995

Mirjam Fried. Grammatical Subject and Its Role in the Grammar of Case Languages. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Kira Hall.Hijra/Hijrin: Language and Gender Identity. Advisor: Robin Lakoff.
John Lowe. Cross-Linguistic Lexicographic Databases for Etymological Research, with Examples from Sino-Tibetan and Bantu Languages. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Lionel Wee. Cognition In Grammar: The Problem of Verbal Prefixation in Malay. Co-advisors: George Lakoff and Eve Sweetser.

1994

David Costa. The Miami-Illinois Languages. Advisor: Richard Rhodes.
Melinda Givens. A Language of Pursuit and Withdrawal: A Linguistic Analysis of Couples’ Counseling. Advisor: Robin Lakoff.
Kathleen Hubbard. Duration in Moraic Theory. Advisor: Larry Hyman.
Jean-Pierre Koenig. Lexical Underspecification and the Syntax/Semantics Interface. Advisor: Paul Kay.
Jeong-Woon Park. Morphological Causatives in Korean: Problems in Grammatical Polysemy and Constructional Relations. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Richard Perry. Legal Meanings: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of American Legal Discourse. Advisor: George Lakoff.

1993

Hana Filip. Aspect, Situation Types and Nominal Reference.
Orin Gensler. A typological evaluation of Celtic/Hamito-Semitic syntactic parallels. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Laura Michaelis. Toward a grammar of aspect: the case of the English perfect construction. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Josephat Rugemalira. Runyambo Verb Extensions and Constraints on Predicate Structure. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Zhong-Wei Shen. The dynamic process of sound change. Advisor: William Wang.
Jackson Sun. A historical-comparative study of the Tani (Mirish) branch in Tibeto-Burman. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Kok Seong Teo. A Sociolinguistic Description of the Peranakan Chinese of Kelantan, Malaysia. Advisor: Leanne Hinton.
Charles Wooters. Lexical Modeling in a Speaker Independent Speech Understanding System. Advisor: William Wang.

1992

Eugene Buckley. Theoretical aspects of Kashaya phonology and morphology. Advisor: Larry Hyman.
John L. Cherry. Animism in thought and language. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Adele Goldberg. Argument structure constructions. Advisor: George Lakoff.
Yoko Hasegawa. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of TE-linkage in Japanese. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Toshio Ohori. Diachrony in clause linkage and related issues. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.

1991

Michele Emanation. Grammatical Polysemy: the Systematicity of Multiple Meanings in Grammar. Advisor: George Lakoff.
Susan Herring. Functions of the Verb in Tamil Narration. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Herbert Luthin. Yanan Oral Narrative: Presentation and Analysis. Advisor: Leanne Hinton.
Birch Moonwomon. Sound Change in San Francisco English. Advisor: Leanne Hinton.
Lawrence Morgan. A Description of the Kutenai Language. Advisor: Wallace Chafe.
Mary Niepokuj. The historical development of reduplication, with special reference to Indo- European. Advisor: Gary Holland.
Eric Pederson. Subtle semantics: universals in the polysemy of reflexive and causative constructions. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Mark Seligman. Generating Discourses from Networks using an Inheritance-based Grammar. Advisor: Wallace Chafe.
Stephen Wilson. Patterns of Change in Prosodic Systems. Advisor: Gary Holland.

1990

Randy LaPolla. Grammatical relations in Chinese: synchronic and diachronic considerations. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Vasiliki Nikiforidou. Conditional and concessive clauses in Modern Greek: a syntactic and semantic description. Advisor: Eve Sweetser.
Maria-Margarida Salomao. Polysemy, aspect and modality in Brazilian Portuguese: The case for a Cognitive Explanation of Grammar. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.

1989

Deborah Davison. Lexical prosodies of Mandarin: comparative evidence from Chinese dialects. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Nicholas Faraclas. A grammar of Nigerian pidgin. Advisor: Leanne Hinton.
Mark Hansell. Lexical borrowing in Taiwan. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Elisabeth Kuhn. Gender and authority: classroom diplomacy in Frankfurt and Berkeley. Advisor: Robin Lakoff.
Yoshiko Matsumoto. Grammar and semantics of adnominal clauses in Japanese. Co-Advisors: Charles Fillmore and Robin Lakoff.

1988

Mariscela Amador-Hernande. The effects of fundamental frequency upon recall of natural, LPC and synthetic speech. Advisor: John Ohala.
Claudia Brugman. The syntax and semantics of HAVE and its complements. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Michelle Caisse. Modeling English vowel durations. Advisor: John Ohala.
Thomas Larsen. Manifestations of ergativity in Quiche grammar. Advisor: Wallace Chafe.
Martha Macri. A descriptive grammar of Palenque Mayan. Advisor: Leanne Hinton.
George (Tucker) Childs. The phonology and morphology of Kisi. Advisor: John Ohala.

1987

Farrell Ackerman. Miscreant morphemes: phrasal predicates in Ugric. Advisor: Karl Zimmer.
Karen Hunold. Conversational processes in television commercials. Advisor: Robin Lakoff.
Kazue Hata. Interactions between speech rate and fundamental frequency in English. Advisor: John Ohala.
Chinfa Lien. Coexistent tone systems in Chinese dialects. Advisor: William Wang.
Monica Macaulay. Morphology and cliticization in Chalcatongo Mixtex. Advisor: Leanne Hinton.
Mary O'Connor. Topics in Northern Pomo grammar. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Katherine Turner. Aspects of Salinan grammar. Advisor: Wallace Chafe.
Liansheng Zhang. The consonant system of Middle-Old Tibetan and the tonogenesis of Tibetan. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Margot Peet. Postlexical palatization in English: an acoustic-phonetic study. Advisor: John Ohala.
James Watters.Topics in Tepehua grammar. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.

1986

Amy Dahlstrom. Plains Cree morpho-syntax. Advisor: Wallace Chafe.
Catherine Davies. You had to be there: the pragmatics of improvisational joking in relation to a sociolinguistic theory of conversation. Advisor: Robin Lakoff.
Donald Goral. Verb concatenation in Southeast Asian languages: a cross-linguistic study. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Ann Hawkinson. Bakweri verb morphology. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Rhoda Kesselman. The self-reflective linguist: a case study in terminology. Advisor: Wallace Chafe.
Knud Lambrecht. Topic, focus, and the grammar of spoken French. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Jan-Ola Östman. Pragmatics as implicitness: an anlaysis of Question particles in Solf Swedish, with implications for the study of passive clauses and the language of persuasion. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Miriam Petruck. Body part terminology in Hebrew: a study in lexical semantics. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Robert Sanders. Diversity and frequency as a reflection of social factors: the application of variable rules to the analysis of disposal in the Beijing speech community. Advisor: William Wang.
David Solnit. A grammatical sketch of Eastern Kayah (Red Karen). Advisor: James Matisoff.
Raquel Teixeira. Zero anaphora in Brazilian Portuguese subjects and objects: morphological and typological considerations. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.

1985

Christopher Court. Fundamentals of Iu Mien (Yao) grammar. Advisor: James Matisoff.
John Kingston. The phonetics and phonology of the timing of glottal and oral events. Advisor: John Ohala.
Shigeko Okamoto. Ellipsis in Japanese discourse. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Marie-Alice Schlichter. The Yukian language family. Advisor: Wallace Chafe.

1984

Ning-Ping Chan. The nouny alternative: crossing the verb/noun borderline in Modern Chinese. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Pamela Downing. Japanese numeral classifiers: a syntactic, semantic and functional profile. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.

1983

Charlotte Baker-Shenk. Observations on non-manual behaviors in American Sign Language. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
James Collins. A linguistic perspective on minority education: discourse analysis and early literacy. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
John Crothers. A concrete approach to phonological universals. Advisor: Karl Zimmer.
Jean Mark Gawron. Lexical representations and the semantics of complemantation. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
David Magier. Topics in the grammar of Marwari. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Yasuhiko Nagano. A historical study of the Garong verbal system. Advisor: James Matisoff.
Alan Shaterian. Yavapai phonology and dictionary. Advisor: Leanne Hinton.
Marilyn Silva. The development of conjunction in later childhood. Advisor: Wallace Chafe.

1982

Christine Chiarello. Hemisphere dynamics in lexical access: automatic and attentional processes. Advisor: William Wang.
Linda Coleman. A linguistic analysis of television commercials. Advisor: Robin Lakoff.
Monica Heller. Language, ethnicity and politics in Quebec. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.
Haruko Kawasaki. An acoustical basis for universal constraints on sound sequences. Advisor: John Ohala.
David Shaul. A Grammar of Nevome. Advisors: Jesse Sawyer and xxx.
Gregory Shenaut. Finite Paradigm Grammar: A Computational Analysis of Icelandic Inflections. Advisor: Karl Zimmer.
Julian Wheatley. Burmese: a grammatical sketch. Advisor: James Matisoff.

1981

David Justic. The Semantics of Form in Arabic, in the Mirror of European Langauges. Advisor: Charles Fillmore.