Students Supervised

Since my retirement from teaching in 2008 I can no longer accept students for thesis supervision.

Neal Snider, Ph.D. 2008 (co-supervisor: Tom Wasow): An Exemplar Model of Syntactic Priming

Tatiana Nikitina, Ph.D. 2008: The Mixing of Syntactic Properties and Language Change.

Gabe Recchia, BS Symbolic Systems 2007: STRATA: Search Tools for Richly Annotated and Time-Aligned Linguistic Data.

Jan Strunk, MA, 2004: Possessive Constructions in modern Low Saxon.

Shipra Dingare, M.A. 2001: The Effect of Feature Hierarchies on Frequencies of Passivization in English.

Hanjung Lee, Ph.D. 2001 (co-supervisor: Peter Sells): Optimization in Argument Expression and Interpretation: A Unified Approach.

Ida Toivonen, Ph.D. 2001 (co-supervisor: Paul Kiparsky): The Phrase Structure of Non-Projecting Words.

Doug Bloom, M.A. 1999: Case Syncretism and Word Order Freezing in the Russian Language.

Rachel Nordlinger, Ph.D. 1997: Constructive Case: Dependent-Marking Nonconfigurationality in Australia.

John Mugane, Ph.D. 1996, University of Arizona, Tucson (co-supervisor: Richard Oehrle): Bantu Nominalization Structures.

Hye-Won Choi, Ph.D. 1996: Optimizing Structure in Context: Scrambling and Information Structure..

Chris Manning, Ph.D. 1994: Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations.

Alex Alsina, Ph.D. 1993: Predicate Composition; A Theory of Syntactic Function Alternations.

Smita Joshi, Ph.D. 1993: Selection of Grammatical and Logical functions in Marathi.

Lubna Alsagoff, Ph.D. 1992: Topic in Malay: The Other Subject.

Ki-Sun Hong, Ph.D. 1992: Argument Selection and Case Marking in Korean.

Yo Matsumoto, Ph.D. 1992: On the Wordhood of Complex Predicates in Japanese.

Paul Kroeger, Ph.D. 1991: Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog.

Fu Tan, Ph.D. 1991: Notion of Subject in Chinese.

Mary Dalrymple, Ph.D. 1990: Syntactic Constraints on Anaphoric Binding.

Tara Mohanan, Ph.D. 1990: Arguments in Hindi.

Mariko Saiki, Ph.D. 1987: Grammatical Functions in the Syntax of Japanese Nominals.

Akira Ishikawa, Ph.D. 1985: Complex Predicates and Lexical Operations in Japanese.

Lori Levin, Ph.D. 1985, MIT: Operations on Lexical Forms: Unaccusative Rules in Germanic Languages.

Carol Neidle, Ph.D. 1982, MIT: The Role of Case in Russian Syntax.

Jane Grimshaw, Ph.D. 1977, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: English WH-constructions and the Theory of Grammar.