Andrew Garrett: Students

I work with graduate and undergraduate students in three main areas:

See below for specific projects: dissertations I have directed, thesis committees I have served on, and B.A. and M.A. theses I have advised.

Dissertations directed

Chundra Cathcart

Diachronic change and geographic contiguity: Indo-Iranian perspectives (in progress)

Will Chang

A lexicostatistical characterization of loanwords in Polynesia (in progress)

David Kamholz

Austronesians in Papua: Diversification and change in West New Guinea (in progress)

Lindsey Newbold

Hupa word order (in progress)

Tom Recht

Verb-initial clauses in Ancient Greek prose: A discourse-pragmatic study (in progress)

Clare Sandy

Karuk morphology and phonology (in progress)

Justin Spence

Language change, contact, and koinéization in Pacific Coast Athabaskan (in progress)

Hannah Haynie (Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University)

Studies in the history and geography of California languages (2012)

David Goldstein (Universitätsassistent, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien)

Wackernagel's Law in fifth-century Greek (2010, Classics; co-chaired with Donald Mastronarde)

Gabriela Caballero (Asst. Professor of Linguistics, UC San Diego)

Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) phonology and morphology (2008)

Esther J. Wood (Children's National Medical Center, University of Maryland)

The semantic typology of pluractionality (2007)

Mary Paster (Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics, Pomona College)

Phonological conditions on affixation (2006; co-chaired with Sharon Inkelas)

Lisa Conathan (Slavic Language Archivist, Beinecke Library, Yale University)

The linguistic ecology of northwestern California: Contact, functional convergence and dialectology (2004)

Matthew L. Juge (Assoc. Prof. of Modern Languages, Texas State University, San Marcos)

Tense and aspect in periphrastic pasts: Evidence from Iberian Romance (2002)

Dissertation committees

Daniel Bruhn (in progress; James A. Matisoff, chair)

Stephanie Farmer (in progress; Lev Michael, chair)

John Sylak-Glassman (in progress; Sharon Inkelas, chair)

Amy Campbell (Linguist, Facebook)

The morphosyntax of discontinuous exponence (2012; Line Mikkelsen, chair)

Reiko Kataoka (Research Associate, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University)

Phonetic and cognitive bases of sound change (2011; Keith Johnson and John J. Ohala, co-chairs)

Athena Kirk (Mellon Junior Fellow in Classics, Washington and Lee University)

The list as treasury in the Greek world (2011, Classics; Leslie Kurke, chair)

Michael Houser

The syntax and semantics of do so anaphora (2010; Line Mikkelsen, chair)

Christopher Rogers

A comparative grammar of Xinkan (2010, Linguistics, University of Utah; Lyle Campbell, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, chair)

Maziar Toosarvandani (ACLS New Faculty Fellow, Dept. of Linguistics, MIT)

Association with foci (2010; Line Mikkelsen, chair)

Molly Babel (Asst. Prof. of Linguistics, University of British Columbia)

Phonetic and social selectivity in speech accommodation (2009; Keith Johnson, chair)

Teresa McFarland (Lecturer in Spanish and Portugese, UC Berkeley)

The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac (2009; Sharon Inkelas, chair)

Israel Sanz-Sánchez (Asst. Prof. of Languages, West Chester University)

The diachrony of New Mexican Spanish, 1683-1926: Philology, corpus linguistics, and dialect change (2009, Spanish and Portugese; Jerry Craddock and Milton Azevedo, co-chairs)

Corinne Crawford (2008 posthumous Ph.D., Classics; Erich S. Gruen, chair)

Nicholas Fleisher (Asst. Prof. of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)

Adjectives and infinitives in composition (2008; Line Mikkelsen, chair)

Yuni Kim (Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Manchester)

Phonology and morphology of San Francisco del Mar Huave (2008; Sharon Inkelas, chair)

William M. Short (Asst. Prof. of Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio)

Sermo, sanguis, semen: An anthropology of language in Roman culture (2007, Classics; Ellen Oliensis, chair)

Jeff Good (Asst. Prof. of Linguistics, University at Buffalo)

Strong linearity: Three case studies towards a theory of morphosyntactic templatic constructions (2003; Larry M. Hyman, chair)

Suzanne Wertheim (Lecturer in Anthropology, UCLA)

Linguistic purism, language shift, and contact-induced change in Tatar (2003; Leanne Hinton, chair)

Alan Yu (Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics, University of Chicago)

The morphology and phonology of infixation (2003; Sharon Inkelas, chair)

Jonathan Barnes (Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics, Boston University)

Positional neutralization: A phonologization approach to typological patterns (2002; Sharon Inkelas, chair)

Gunnar Hansson (Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics, University of British Columbia)

Theoretical and typological issues in consonant harmony (2001; Sharon Inkelas, chair)

Darya Kavitskaya (Asst. Prof. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley)

Compensatory lengthening: Phonetics, phonology, and diachrony (2001; Sharon Inkelas, chair)

Susan Guion (late Prof. of Linguistics, University of Oregon)

Velar palatalization: Coarticulation, perception, and sound change (1996, University of Texas at Austin; Nicola J. Bessell, chair)

Michael Aceto (Assoc. Prof. of English, East Carolina University)

Variation in the English-derived creole of Bastimentos, Panama (1995, University of Texas at Austin; Ian Hancock, chair)

Mark Davies (Prof. of Linguistics, Brigham Young University)

The evolution of causative constructions in Spanish and Portugese (1992, University of Texas at Austin; Carlos Solé, chair)

M.A. and B.A. theses advised

James Martin, "The morphology of causation in Yurok" (B.A. 2009)

Nicholas Fowler, "Regularization of the past tense in the 'unchanging' weak verbs" (B.A. 2008)

Izabella Czyzewska, "A letter from Puduhepa Queen of Hatti to Ramses II Pharaoh of Egypt (KUB 21.38 = CTH 176)" (Concordia University, Montréal M.A. 2007; external examiner)

Cécile Evers, "Slave language acquisition in the eighteenth-century gobernación of Chocó, Columbia" (2007, International Area Studies; second reader)

Jennifer Sargent-Smith, "The media in language revitalization" (B.A. 2006)

Matthew Loran, "The affirmative particle in Middle Welsh" (B.A. 2003)

Alysoun Quinby, "Dialectology of River Yurok: A preliminary exploration" (B.A. 2003)

Jason Bernard, "Latin relative clauses: Description and diachrony" (B.A. 2002)

Ruth Rouvier, "Infixation and reduplication in Misumalpan: A reconstruction" (B.A. 2002)

Ashlee Bailey, "A reconstruction of verbal reduplication in Central Pacific" (B.A. 1997)

Michael Reese, "Converging on coronal: A sound change affecting coda nasals and its perceptual explanation" (UT Austin M.A. 1995)

Susan Guion, "The syllable structure of Arcado-Cyprian" (UT Austin M.A. 1994)

Colleen Bard, "Reduplication and the origin of the Hittite hi-conjugation" (UT Austin M.A. 1993)

Helen Gould, "Negation in Chaucer's prose" (Harvard College A.B. 1990)

Lisa Lavoie, "Word order and null subjects in Le Chevalier au Lion" (Harvard College A.B. 1989)