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Harry Tily

Neal Snider

Anubha Kothari

Inbal Arnon

Scott Grimm

Jan Strunk (visiting Winter of 2007)

Gabriel Recchia (graduated June of 2007)

Student Theses Supervised

Neal Snider (current, co-supervisor: Tom Wasow)

Tatiana Nikitina (current)

Melanie Owens (current, co-supervisor: Beth Levin)

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

Jan Strunk, MA, 2004: Possessive Constructions in modern Low Saxon. current position: doctoral student at Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany.

Shipra Dingare, M.A. 2001: The Effect of Feature Hierarchies on Frequencies of Passivization in English. Current position: Research Associate, University of Edinburgh.

Hanjung Lee, Ph.D. 2001 (co-supervisor: Peter Sells): Optimization in Argument Expression and Interpretation: A Unified Approach. Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea.

Ida Toivonen, Ph.D. 2001 (co-supervisor: Paul Kiparsky): The Phrase Structure of Non-Projecting Words, publsihed with substantial revisions as Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study of Swedish Particles, Kluwer (2003). Current position: Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Doug Bloom, M.A. 1999: Case Syncretism and Word Order Freezing in the Russian Language. Previous position at InXight. Harvard Law School.

Rachel Nordlinger, Ph.D. 1997: Constructive Case: Dependent-Marking Nonconfigurationality in Australia. Revised version published as Constructive Case. Evidence from Australian Languages (CSLI Publications,1998). Current position: Lecturer in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Author of A Grammar of Wambaya (Pacific Linguistics, Canberra, 1998) and other books. Past ARC Fellow and present President of the Australian Linguistics Association.

John Mugane, Ph.D. 1996, University of Arizona, Tucson (co-supervisor: Richard Oehrle): Bantu Nominalization Structures. Current position: Senior Preceptor and Director of the African Language Program Department of African and African American Studies. Formerly Assistant Professor (Swahili and African Linguistics), Department of Linguistics, Ohio Unversity, Athens, Ohio. Author of A Paradigmatic Grammar of Gikuyu (CSLI Publications, 1997).

Hye-Won Choi, Ph.D. 1996: Optimizing Structure in Context: Scrambling and Information Structure. Revised version published by CSLI Publications (1999). Current position: Associate Professor, Department of English and Director, English Program Office, Ewha Womans University, Korea.

Chris Manning, Ph.D. 1994: Ergativity: Argument Structure and Grammatical Relations. Revised version published by CSLI Publications (1996). Current position: Associate Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics, Stanford University. Co-author with Avery Andrews of Complex Predicates and Information Spreading in LFG. Co-author with Hinrich Schütze of Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing (The MIT Press, June 1999).

Alex Alsina, Ph.D. 1993: Predicate Composition; A Theory of Syntactic Function Alternations. Current position: Full Professor (catedratic), Department de Traduccio i Filologia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Author of: The Role of Argument Structure in Grammar (CSLI Publications, 1996). Co-editor (with Joan Bresnan and Peter Sells) of Complex Predicates (CSLI Publications, 1997).

Smita Joshi, Ph.D. 1993: Selection of Grammatical and Logical functions in Marathi. Former Senior Technical writer, Infospace, Inc, San Mateo.

Lubna Alsagoff, Ph.D. 1992: Topic in Malay: The Other Subject. Current position: Chief Operating Officer and Academic Director, E-Learning Group, Horizon Education and Technologies Ltd, Singapore.

Ki-Sun Hong, Ph.D. 1992: Argument Selection and Case Marking in Korean. Current position: Associate Professor, Department of English, Seoul National University, Korea. Co-author (with B.-S. Park, J. Yoon) of Grammatical Theories (an introduction to Chomskyan theory, LFG and HPSG written in Korean) (Hankook Publications, Seoul, forthcoming).

Yo Matsumoto, Ph.D. 1992: On the Wordhood of Complex Predicates in Japanese. Current position: Professor of Linguistics, Kobe University. Author of: Complex Predicates in Japanese: A Syntactic and Semantic Study of the Notion `Word' (CSLI Publications/Kurosio Publishers, Toyko, 1996) and co-author with Shigenori Tanaka of Kuukan to Idoo no Hyoohen (Expressions of Space and Motion) (Tokyo' Kenkyusha, 1997).

Paul Kroeger, Ph.D. 1991: Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog. Current position: Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Dallas, Texas. Author of: Phrase Structure and Grammatical Relations in Tagalog (CSLI Publications, 1993) and Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-functional Approach and Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2004 and 2005).

Fu Tan, Ph.D. 1991: Notion of Subject in Chinese. Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages. San Jose State University.

Mary Dalrymple, Ph.D. 1990: Syntactic Constraints on Anaphoric Binding. Revision published as The Syntax of Anaphoric Binding (CSLI Publications, 1993). Current position: Professor of Linguistics and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford University. Co-editor (with Zaenen, Maxwell, and Kaplan) of Formal issues in Lexical Functional Grammar (CSLI Publications, 1995). Editor of Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar. The Resource Logic Approach The MIT Press, 1999). Author of Lexical Functional Grammar, Syntax and Semantics, volume 34 (Academic Press, 2001).

Tara Mohanan, Ph.D. 1990: Arguments in Hindi. Revised version published as Argument Structure in Hindi (CSLI Publications,1994). Current position: Associate Professor and Deputy Head, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore. Co-editor (with Lionell Wee) of Grammatical Semantics: Evidence for Structure in Meaning (CSLI Publications, 1999).

Mariko Saiki, Ph.D. 1987: Grammatical Functions in the Syntax of Japanese Nominals. Current position: Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Kanazawa University, Japan.

Akira Ishikawa, Ph.D. 1985: Complex Predicates and Lexical Operations in Japanese. Current position: Professor in Linguistics, Sophia University, Japan. Co-author with Tadayuki Matsuzawa, of Gengogaku no Tame no Ronrigaku (Logic for Linguistics) (Keigaku Shuppan,Tokyo).

Lori Levin, Ph.D. 1985, MIT: Operations on Lexical Forms: Unaccusative Rules in Germanic Languages. Current position: Associate Research Professor at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.

Carol Neidle, Ph.D. 1982, MIT: The Role of Case in Russian Syntax. Current postiion: Associate Professor of Modern Foreign Languages, Boston University. Author of The Role of Case in Russian Syntax (Kluwer, 1988) and co-author (with Kegl, MacLaughlin, Bahan, and Lee) of The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure (The MIT Press, 2000).

Jane Grimshaw, Ph.D. 1977, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: English WH-constructions and the Theory of Grammar. Current position: Professor II, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University; former Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Author of Argument Structure (The MIT Press, 1992) and Words and Structure (CSLI, 2005). Coeditor (with Legendre and Vikner) of Optimality-Theoretic Syntax (Bradford Books/MIT Press, 2001) and (with Coopmans and Everaert) of Lexical Specification and Insertion (John Benjamins, 2000).