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Doctor of Philosophy Degrees Recently Awarded

Please note: Dissertations can be ordered from the UW Working Papers.

Student Dissertation Title Adviser
Summer 2008 - Spring 2009
Dormer, Anya Feature Valuation Without Deletion: Evidence from Aspect and Tense System of Russian Karen Zagona
Drellishak, Scott Widespread but Not Universal: Improving the Typological Coverage of the Grammar Matrix Emily Bender
Li, Kening The Information Structure of Mandarin Chinese: Syntax and Prosody Ellen Kaisse
Kilanski, Kelley J The Effects of Token Frequency and Phonological Neighborhood Density on Speech Production for Native and Non-Native Speakers of English Richard Wright
Summer 2007 - Spring 2008
Da Conceicao, Manuel Pronominal Affixation and Cliticization in Romance and Bantu Languages Hargus, Klausenburger
Stevenson, Jeffrey The Sociolinguistic Variables of Chilean Voseo Beckford Wassink
Summer 2006 - Spring 2007
Kato, Kumiko Japanese Gapping in Minimalist Syntax Zagona
Summer 2005 - Spring 2006
Makihara, Hideo On the Past Tense in Japanese Relative Clauses Zagona
Summer 2004 - Spring 2005
Carmichael, Lesley Situation-Based Intonation Pattern Distribution in a Corpus of American English Wright
McBurney, Susan Referential Morphology in Signed Languages Newmeyer
Shirai, Setsuko Lexical effects in Japanese vowel reduction Wright
Waltmunson, Jay The relative degree of difficulty of L2 Spanish /d, t/, trill and tap by L1 English speakers: Auditory and acoustic methods of defining pronunciation accuracy Beckford Wassink
Summer 2003 - Spring 2004
Andrews, Donna The Acquisition of Spanish Gender by English-speaking Children in a Partial Immersion Setting Herschensohn
Curtis, Emily Geminate weight: case studies and formal models Hargus
Levi, Susannah The representation of underlying glides: a cross-linguistic study Kaisse
Russi, Cinzia The grammaticalization of Italian clitic pronouns Klausenburger
Yaden-Luthi, Bridget Mental Representations of Spanish Morphology: Rules or Analogy? Herschensohn
Yun, Yungdo Glides and High Vowels in Korean Syllables Kaisse
Summer 2002 - Spring 2003
Huang, Chia Hui A restructuring of case theory: Evidence from S- selected case Zagona
Rozelle, Lorna The structure of sign language lexicons: Inventory and distribution of handshape and location Hargus
Sato, Hiromi

Selection for clausal complements and tense features

Zagona
Sekiguchi, Tomoko The syntax and interpretation of resultative constructions Contreras
Sohng, Hong Ki Topics in the syntax of East Asian languages: Long-distance anaphora and adverbial case Kim
Summer 2001 - Spring 2002
Webster, Gabriel Toward a psychologically and computationally adequate model of speech perception Wright
Summer 2000 - Spring 2001
Lona, Jennifer S. Negation and clausal structure Zagona
Maruenda, Sonia Aspect and case Zagona
Schell, Karyn Anna Functional categories and the acquisition of aspect in L2 Spanish: A longitudinal study Herschensohn
Summer 1999 - Spring 2000
Kim, Soohee Sub-phonemic duration difference in English /s/ and few-to-many borrowing from English to Korean Hargus and Wright
Lindblad, Vern Myron Sandhi of /rs/ sequences in North Norrland Swedish Kaisse
Miranda, Ines An optimality theoretic analysis of Nicaraguan Spanish diminutivization: Results of a field survey Hargus
Wulf, Douglas The Imperfective Paradox in the English Progressive and Other Semantic Course Corrections Ogihara
Suh, Younghwan A study of the auxiliary verb construction and verb serialization in Korean Newmeyer
Summer 1998 - Spring 1999
Jeong, Youngkil Clausal casemarking in Korean Contreras
Kim, Jae Yoon Complex verbs and argument structures in Korean Brame
Varden, John Kevin On high vowel devoicing in standard modern Japanese: implications for current phological theory Hargus
Taff, Alice Phonetics and Phonology of Unangan(Eastern Aleut) Intonation Hargus
Summer 1997 - Spring 1998
Denham, Kristin A minimalist account of optiona Wh-movement Newmeyer
Hwang, Kyu-Hong Nominative and default case checking in minimalist syntax Contreras

Johnson, Ernest

The influence of speaking Black English on spelling in standard English Jenkins
Lyle, James Aspects of ergativity Contreras
Sien, Nam Cheol An autosegmental analysis of ideophones in Korean Kaisse
Tuttle, Siri Metrical and tonal structures in Tanana Athabaskan Hargus
Summer 1996 - Spring 1997
Ackles, Nancy Historical syntax of the English articles in relation to the con/non-count distinction Contreras
Fronk, Robert W. Direct and indirect perception in French and Spanish infinitival forms Klausenburger & Herschensohn
Gamon, Michael The derivational formation of chain-links: Minimalism and binding theory Contreras
Gess, Randall Scott Optimality theory in the historical phonology of French Kaisse
Jung, Hee-Bok Articulatory components and modifications Kaisse
Kim, Tai-Soo Functional features in Korean. A minimalist approach Contreras
Olarrea, Antonio Pre and post verbal subject in Spanish: A minimalist account Zagona
Park, Young Prosody in Sino-Korean Kaisse
Salome, Margaret On the interface between aspect and arbitrary null objects: Evidence from Spanish Zagona
Summer 1995 - Spring 1996
McKinnon, Richard S. Electrophysical investigations of morphological phenomena Osterhout
Moon, Seung Chul An optimality approach to long distance anaphors Newmeyer
Summer 1994 - Spring 1995
Siddaramaiah, Chandrashekar Syntax of nominative case in Kannada Emonds
Summer 1993 - Spring 1994
Atterberry, Perry Locality constraints in A'-chains Contreras
Petronio, Karen Clause structure in American Sign Language Contreras
Summer 1992 - Spring 1993
Artiagoitia, Xabier Verbal Projections in Basque and Minimal Structure Emonds
Lee, Sookhee The Syntax and Semantics of Serial Verb Constructions Emonds
Jung, Yeun Jin A Restrictive Theory of Functional Categories and their Parametric Variation Contreras
Kang, Ongmi Korean Prosodic Phonology Hargus
Masullo, Pascual Incorporation and Case Theory in Spanish. A Crosslinguistic Perspective Contreras
Roper, Jeffrey Clausal Negation in Tamil Zagona
Wu, Horng-ming Aspects of Chinese Binding Newmeyer


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