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


Student

Dissertation Title

Adviser

 

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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