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Doctoral Dissertations


Baek, Mihyun. 1997. The Korean I-Suffix: A functional approach. Supervisor: P Davis.

Baker, John. 1994. Determinacy and Participant Formation: De marmore angeli. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Barbe, Katharina. 1989. Irony in Conversational German: A linguistic approach. Supervisor: J. Copeland.

Burdine, Stephanie. 2002. Means to an End: Communication Strategies in French Immersion. Supervisor: M. Barlow

Caesar-Fox, Desrey. 2003. Zauro'nödok Agawayo Yau: Variants of Akawaio spoken at Waramadong. Supervisor, S. Gildea.

Cameron, Carrie. 1990. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Voice Systems: A functional analysis. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Cobin, Peter. 1989. Linguistic Subsystems of a Chicano Child. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Cummings, Elizabeth. 1989. Indefiniteness, Direct Objects, and Word Order in Hixaryana. Supervisor: S. Tyler.

Edmiston, Cynthia. 1988. English Grammar as a Stratified System of Signs. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Everett, Caleb. 2006. Patterns in Karitiana: Articulation, Perception, and Grammar. Supervisor: M. Shibatani

Felix, Rolando. 2006. A Grammar of River Warihio. Supervisor: P. Davis

Filchenko, Andrey Yury. 2007. A Grammar of Eastern Khanty. Supervisor: M. Shibatani

Fleck, David W. 2003. A Grammar of Matses. Supervisor: P. Davis

Ginzburg, Barbara Leppin. 1984. Structural and Relational Networks in Guenther Grass' Katz und Maus. Supervisor: J. Copeland.

Guirardello, Raquel. 1999. A Grammar of Trumai. Supervisor: S. Gildea.

Hardy, Donald. 1988. The Semantics of Creek Morphosyntax. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Hilpert, Martin. 2007. Germanic future constructions: a usage based approach to  grammaticalization. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Huang, Lillian. 1987. Aspect: A general system and its manifestation in Mandarin Chinese. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Katz, Aya. 1996. Cyclical Grammaticalization and the Cognitive Link Between Pronoun and Copula. Supervisor: J. Copeland.

Lee, Chang-In. 1988. A Dynamic Model of Comprehension with Applications to Korean and English. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Lee, Jeong-Hwa. 1999. The Semantics of Manipulative Motion Verbs in Korean, with Reference to English. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Mead, David. 1998. The Reconstruction of Proto-Bungku-Tolaki and Aspects of its Morphosyntax. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Meira, Sergio S.C.O. 1999. A First Grammar of Tiriyo. Supervisor: S. Gildea.

Meyer, Cynthia. 1991. Talk of Times Past: On the interaction of cognitive systems in conversation. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Novak, Barbra. 2006. Cortical Processing of Real Words, Pseudowords and Nonwords as Measured by Magnetoencephalography. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Pulju, Timothy. 1995. Problems in the Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Consonants. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Rasch, Jeffrey. 2002. The Basic Morpho Syntax of Yaitepec Chatino. Supervisor: P. Davis

Rohde, Ada. 2001. Analyzing PATH: The interplay of verbs, prepositions and constructional semantics. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Sexton-Leuchtmann, Amy. 2001. Creating Characters and Reconstructing Texts: Evaluation in children's oral narrative re-tellings. Supervisor: J. Copeland.

Spitz, Walter. 1997. Lost Causes: Morphological causative constructions in Philippine languages. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Spruiell, William. 1990. Perspectives on Nominalization. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Stefanowitsch, Anatol. 2001. Constructing Causation: A construction grammar approach to analytic causatives. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Tavares, Petronila. 2005. A Grammar of Wayana. Supervisor: S. Gildea.

Yang, Insun. 1994. A Semantic Study of Discourse Connectivity in Korean. Supervisor: J. Copeland.

Young, Hilary. 2002. C'est either que tu parles français, c'est either que tu parles anglais: A cognitive approach to Chiac as a contact language. Supervisor: M. Achard

Zhang, Jian-nan. 1991. The Relationship between Processes and Participants in Chinese. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Zhang, Xiuhong. 1991. Complex Verbal Lexemes in Chinese. Supervisor: S. Lamb.



MA Theses


Bruff, Gary. 1995. Rhetoric and Grammar. Supervisor: S. Tyler.

Cramer, Sabine. 1987. Naming and Classification. Supervisor: S. Tyler.

Feicht, Sherry. 1995. Functional German Grammar: A pedagogical application of Fleming's communication analysis. Supervisor: J. Copeland.

Fletcher, J.C. 2006. Effects of coda voicing on onset/n/ and /l/ duration in American English. Supervisor: K. Crosswhite.

Fu, Qiying. 1991. The Description of Chinese Substantives using an Analogical Approach to Syntax. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Gagliano, Eugene. 1990. Phonological Chunking in German and English: Segment, juncture, and boundary. Supervisor: J. Copeland.

Lu, Wendy Li-jung. 1990. The Semantics of Taiwanese U. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Meira, Sergio S.C.O. 1998. A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and inflectional morphology. Supervisor: S. Gildea.

Nash, Carlos. 2001. Evaluating the Use of Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) Data Compression in Acoustic Phonetics. Supervisor: N. Niedzielski

Newell, John. 1998. Metaphor in a Neurocognitive Theory of Language. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Nilakanta, Rema. 1985. Discourse Functions of Negation in Modern German. Supervisor: J. Copeland.

Reindl, Donald. 1994. The Semantics of the Preposition Na in Slavic Spatial Constructions. Supervisor: S. Tyler.

Thesieres, Holly. 2001. Comparative Vowel Allophony in Dialects of Arabic. Supervisor: N. Niedzielski.

Wiedrick, Jack. 2000. A Grammar of Middle Japanese. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Wu, Zhijun. 1988. Strategies for Natural Language Processing using Stratified Grammar. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Zhang, Yiming. 1990. Toward a Dynamic Grammar of Chinese. Supervisor: S. Lamb.



BA Honors Theses in Linguistics


Birenbaum, Simon. 2005. The correlations among catch phrase usage, friendship groups, and social networks. Supervisor: N. Niedzielski.

Chiao, Sue Wen. 1998. Luo Causative Constructions. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Eckel, Malcolm. 2007. An Examination of The Definite Article in Discourse. Supervisor: R. Englebretson.

Grant, Alexis. 2003. Politeness Strategies in Hierarchical Online Communities: A case study of the live journal user documentation community. Supervisor: R. Englebretson.

Greiner, John. 1989. The Dynamic Grammar Interpreter. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Harston, Katrina. 2000. Phonosymbolism in Japanese. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Hegarty, Rick. 1995. A Computerized Model of the Babbling Stage in Language Development. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Hess, Holly. 2006. The Effects of Brain Damage on Verb Production in Natural Discourse. Supervisor: R. Englebretson.

Hu, Wenlei. 2000. ESL Learner Strategies. Supervisor: M. Barlow.

Leyton-Mange, Andrea. 2007. Vowel formant frequencies and occurrence of non-modal phonation in the speech of trained opera singers. Supervisor: N. Niedzielski.

Mack, Jennifer. 2004. An Exploration of the Relationship Between Prosody, Grammar, and Meaning in Spoken American English Interrogatives. Supervisor: R. Englebretson.

Mathieu-Reeves, Danielle. 2005. A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Copula: Two Copular Classes. Supervisor: S. Kemmer

Matzen, Laura. 2003. Discourse Markers and Prosody: A case study of 'so'. Supervisor: R. Englebretson.

Schafer, Emily. 1999. Phonological Processing in Children: A Study Using Magnetoencephalography. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Theriot, Jude. 1995. A Psycholinguistic Study of Semantic Schemas Associated with English in front of / in back of. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Wheeler, Ben. 2005. A Preliminary Investigation of Constructional Profile Analysis Supervisor: S. Kemmer



Linguistics Prize for Excellence


Beginning in 2002, the department has awarded the Linguistics Prize for Excellence to officially recognize exceptional achievement in the major. This prize is awarded to a graduating senior Linguistics major who, in the judgment of the faculty, has demonstrated outstanding performance throughout their undergraduate career. Recipients and co-recipients of this award are listed below.
2007Andrea Leyton-Mange
2006Holly Hess
Ben Walker
2005Annie Fadely
Ben Wheeler
2004Jennifer Mack
2003Alexis Grant
Laura Matzen
2002Brianna Conrey


BAs in Linguistics


2007


     Claire Anderson
     Jared Blakely
     Caroline Crites
     Malcolm Eckel
     Amber Feight
     Andrew Harrison
     Lauren Hicks
     Andrea Leyton-Mange
     Julia Pike

2006


     Matthew Anderson
     Barrett Brown
     Lauren Candia
     Holly Hess
     Sara Lide
     Danielle Mathieu-Reeves
     Bertram Shih
     Vanessa Tobert
     Ben Walker

2005


     Simon Birenbaum
     Annie Fadely
     Adria Karlsson
     Emily Matuzek
     Ben Wheeler
     Jeff Whitehurst

2004


     Allison Beckford
     Morgan Gossom
     Sarah Key
     Jennie Mack
     Caleb Redfield
     Chandra Smith
     Lindsay Sutton

2003


     Lelac Almagor
     Aarti Bhalodia
     Lisa De Falco
     Laura Fagundes
     Maggie Fogarty
     Alexis Grant
     Melissa Jordan
     Michelle Lloyd
     Laura Matzen
     Marcus Perlman

2002


     Ilana Bromberg
     Vivian Chum
     Brianna Conrey
     Lillian Hagens
     Norma Haro
     Robert Hawke
     Lori Hellkamp
     Randi Johnson
     Melissa Jordan
     Megan McGehee
     Rey Romero
     Robert Reichle
     Laurie Scott
     Wally Upp

2001


     Vergel Cruz
     Katherine Ketner
     Ellen Kirby
     Todd Makse
     Megan Mamalis
     Lauren Schiff
     Mindy Simmons
     Brian Webster
     Mike Yantosca

2000


     Alexis Biedenfeldt
     Elizabeth Fisher
     Katrina Harston
     Wenlei (Wendy) Hu
     Emily Mankin
     Maureen McGuckin
     Mark Wenthe

1999


     Christy Adessa
     Catherine Fine
     Jennifer Griffin
     Ben Hayden
     Erin Makulski
     Melissa McConachie
     Carlos Nash
     Jessica Petrillo
     Emily Schafer
     Rebecca Williams

1998


     Andrew Bagley
     Sue Wen Chiao
     Andy Hickl
     Karmaine Millington

1997


     Jennifer Davidow
     Leigh Estes
     Carolyn Harris
     Lara Kaplan
     Melissa Kuhnell
     Krista Noack
     Jessica Peterson
     Mikael Thompson
     Mark Vogan

1996


     Ronald Jackson
     David Miller
     Eric Sutton

1995


     Sean (Jeff) Allen
     Rick Hegarty
     Jude Theriot

1994


     Gilbert Ramirez


* If you would like your name added above, please e-mail Robert Englebretson at reng