DISSERTATIONS

2013

Student / Advisor / Title
Brian Butler / Eric Pederson / A Semantic Map Approach to English Articles (a, the, and o)
Wook Kyung Choe / Melissa Redford / The Role of Supralexical Prosodic Units in Speech Production: Evidence from the Distribution of Speech Errors
Tam Nguyen / Scott DeLancey / A Grammar of Bih
Anna Pucilowski / Doris Payne / Topics in the Morphosyntax and Morphophonology of Ho
Yolanda Valdez / Spike Gildea / Predication in Rar Muri (Urique Tarahumara)

2012

Student / Advisor / Title
Colleen Ahland / Doris Payne / A Grammar of Northern and Southern Gumuz
Michael Ahland / Doris Payne / A Grammar of Northern Mao
Virginia Beavert / Scott DeLancey / Wantwint inmi tianwit: A Reflection of What I have Learned
Brian Butler / Eric Pederson / A Semantic Map Approach to English Articles (a, the, and o)
Christopher Doty / Scott DeLancey / A Reassessment of the Genetic Classification of Milik Coos
Jung-yao Lu / Scott DeLancey / An Investigation of Various Linguistic Changes in Chinese and Naxi

2011

Student / Advisor / Title
Gwendolyn Hyslop / Scott Delancey / A Grammar of Kurtop
Grace Oh / Susan Guion-Anderson / The effect of age of acquisition and second-language experience on prosody and segments: A cross-sectional study of Korean bilinguals’ English and Korean production
Irina Shport / Susan Guion-Anderson / Cross-linguistic perception and learning of Japanese lexical prosody by English listeners

2010

Student / Advisor / Title
Joana Jansen / Scott DeLancey / A Yakima Sahaptin/Ichishkin Grammar with Texts
Rosa Vallejos Yopan / Spike Gildea / A Grammar of Kokama-Kokamilla
Racquel Yamada / Spike Gildea / Speech Community-based Documentation, Description, and Revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume
Kun Yue / Eric Pederson / Empirical Studies of Interactions of Semantic Roles: The Agent and Patient in Mandarin Chinese

2009

Student / Advisor / Title
Kyoung-ho Kang / Susan Guion-Anderson / Clear Speech Production and Perception of Korean Stops and the Sound Change in Korean Stops
Yong-Taek Kim / Eric Pederson / Event Construal and its Linguistic Encoding: Towards an Extended Semantic Map Model

2007

Student / Advisor / Title
Carey Benom / Eric Pederson / An Empirical Study of English <through> Lexical Semantics, Polysemy, and the Correctness Fallacy

2006

Student / Advisor / Title
Andoveloniaina Rosolofi / Doris Payne / Malagasy Transitive Clause Types and their Functions

2005

Student / Advisor / Title
Christiane DeOliveria / Spike Gildea / The Language of the Apinaje People of Central Brazil

2004

Student / Advisor / Title
Marjorie (Mitzi) Barker / Tom Givón / Effects of Divided Attention on Memory for Discourse

2003

Student / Advisor / Title
Boniface Kawasha / Tom Givón / Semantic Analysis
Jayeon Lim / Jacquelyn Schachter / The Developmental Process of English Simple Past and Present Perfect by Adult Korean Learners
Timothy Thornes / Scott DeLancey / A Northern Paiute Grammar
Pilar Valenzuela / Doris Payne / Transitivity in Shipibo-Konibo Grammar

2002

Student / Advisor / Title
Connie Dickinson / Scott DeLancey / Complex Predicates in Tsafiki
Tsuko Hayashi (Deceased) / Eric Pederson / Lexicalization of Motion Events in Japanese
Janne Underriner / Scott DeLancey / Intonation and Syntax in Klamath

2001

Student / Advisor / Title
Alejandra Vidal / Doris Payne / Pilaga Grammar (Guyakuruan Family, Argentina)

2000

Student / Advisor / Title
Unchalee Singnoi / Scott DeLancey / Nominal Constructions in Thai
Belinda Young-Davy / Russ Tomlin / A Cognitive-Semantic Approach to the Acquisition of English Prepositions
Roberto Zavala / Scott DeLancey / Scott DeLancey

1999

Student / Advisor / Title
Erik Andvik / Scott DeLancey / Tshangle Grammar
Linda Forrest / Russ Tomlin / The Role of Attention and Activation in Language Production: A Neuro-Cognitive Linguistics Approach
Jongbai Hwang / Russ Tomlin / Attention and Second Language Acquisition: the Role of Detection in the L2 Acquisition of English Passives
Myint Soe / Scott DeLancey / A Grammar in Burmese

1998

Student / Advisor / Title
David Watters (Deceased) / Scott DeLancey / The Kham Language of West-Central Nepal (Takale Dialect)

1996

Student / Advisor / Title
Marleen Haboud Ortego / Colette Craig and Doris Payne / Quichua and Spanish in the Ecuadorian Highlands: The Effects of Long Term Contact

1995

Student / Advisor / Title
William Staley / Russ Tomlin / Referent Management in Olo: A Cognitive Perspective

1994

Student / Advisor / Title
Sherri Brainhard / Scott DeLancey / Karao Phonology
Carl Falsgraf / Jacquelyn Schachter / Language and Culture at a Japanese Immersion School
Emmanuel Kweku Osam / Colette Craig / Aspects of Akan Grammar—A Functional Perspective
Insun Park / Scott DeLancey / Grammaticalization of Verbs in Three Tibeto-Burman Languages

1993

Student / Advisor / Title
Lalnunthangi Chhangte / Scott DeLancey / Mizo Syntax
Myung Hee Kim / Russ Tomlin / The Interaction of Global and Local Theme in English Narrative
Lynne Yang / Tom Givón / Acquisition of a Second Language Under Controlled Experimental Conditions

1992

Student / Advisor / Title
Spike Gildea / Doris Payne / Comparative Cariban Morphoxyntax: On the Genesis of Ergativity in Independent Clauses
Anju Saxena / Scott DeLancey / Finite Morphology in Tibeto-Kinhauri

1991

Student / Advisor / Title
David Hargreaves / Scott DeLancey / The Concept of Intentional Action in the Grammar of Kathmandu Newari

1990

Student / Advisor / Title
Robert Carlson / Tom Givón / Tom Givón
Carol Genetti / Scott DeLancey / A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Dolakha Newari Dialect
Violeta Ramsay / Hartmut Burmeister / Developmental Stages in the Acquisition of the Perfective and the Imperfective Aspects by Classroom L2 Learners of Spanish

1989

Student / Advisor / Title
Chad Thompson / Tom Givón / Voice and Obviation in Athabaskan and Other Languages
Yasuko Watanabe (Deceased) / Tom Givón / Function of <WA> and <GA> in Japanese Discourse

1985

Student / Advisor / Title
Anne Cooreman / Tom Givón / Transitivity and Discourse Continuity in Chamorro Narratives
Noel Emerson Rude / Tom Givón / Studies in Nez Perce Grammar and Discourse

1980

Student / Advisor / Title
Sharon Taylor / Clarence Sloat / Lexical Idiosyncrasy in English: An Argument for a Lexically Based Grammar

1979

Student / Advisor / Title
Robert Hellstrom / Derry Malsh / Finglish

1978

Student / Advisor / Title
Ralph Carlson / Clarence Sloat / A Study of Some Negative Lexical Items in English

1976

Student / Advisor / Title
Richard Logsdon / Donald Taylor / The Interplay of Mimetic and Didactic Informing Principles: An Analysis

1975

Student / Advisor / Title
Jon Amastae / Clarence Sloat / Dominican Creole Phonology
Carl Mills / James Hoard / Three Experimental Studies of Variation in English

1973

Student / Advisor / Title
Lawrence Freeman / Stoddard Malarkey / Dialect Charactics of Late Middle English Prepositions in Two Parallel Prose Works: “Ayenbite of Inwyt” and “Book of Vices and Virtues
Richard Parr / Clarence Sloat / A Semantic Theory of Concrete Substantives

1971

Student / Advisor / Title
George Settera, Jr / Clarence Sloat / The Generative Model Extended: Three Essays in Modern English Linguistics