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Hyunjung Joo
Dissertation: The Representation and Computation of Intonation
Position: Post-doc, Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Cognitive Sciences of Language (HIPCS) at Hanyang University in South Korea
Email: hyunjung (dot) joo (dot) ling (at) gmail (dot) com
Sreekar Raghotham
Dissertation: Self talk
Position: Lecturer, Yale University
Email: sreekar (dot) raghotham (at) yale (dot) edu
Tatevik Yolyan
Dissertation: Phonological Expressivity and Learning via Boolean Monadic Recursive Schemes
Email: tatevik (dot) yolyan (at) rutgers (dot) edu
Ziling Zhu
Dissertation: Deriving and Suspending Factivity
Position: Post-doc, Seminar für Englische Philologie at Georg-August Universität Göttingen
Email: ziling.zhu97 (at) gmail (dot) com
Chaoyi Chen
Dissertation: The Syntax and Semantics of Headless Relative Clauses
Position: Assistant Professor, Hunan University
Email: chenchaoyi (at) hnu (dot) edu (dot) cn
Huteng Dai
Dissertation: Phonological Learning in the Presence of Exceptions
Position: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Email: huteng (at) umich (dot) edu
Indira Das (Masters)
Eileen Blum
Dissertation: The Effects of Non-linear Data Structures on the Computation of Vowel Harmony
Position: Dialogue Designer, Data Piper (contractor for Google)
Email: eileen (dot) blum92 (at) gmail (dot) com
Ang Li
Dissertation: Comparing Alternatives
Position: Data Scientist, JPMorgan & Chase
Email: ang (dot) li (dot) aimee (at) gmail (dot) com
Tajudeen Mamadou
Dissertation: Tone and Intonation Modeling in African Tone Languages
Position: Visiting Research Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Email: tmamadou (at) umich (dot) edu
Hazel Mitchley
Dissertation: The Introduction and Thematic Licensing of External Arguments
Email: hazel (dot) mitchley (at) rutgers (dot) edu
Megan Gotowski
Dissertation: Syntactic Bootstrapping in the Adjectival Domain: Learning Subjective Adjectives
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, William & Mary
Email: megangotowski (at) gmail (dot) com
Shiori Ikawa
Dissertation: On Agree Feeding Interpretation: Honorification, Empathy, and Switch Reference
Position: Lecturer, Fuji Women's University, Department of English Language and Culture
Email: shiori (dot) ikawa (at) fujijoshi (dot) ac (dot) jp
Nathan Koser
Dissertation: The Computational Nature of Stress Assignment
Position: Conversation Designer, Quantiphi
Email: natekoser1 (at) gmail (dot) com
Lydia Newkirk
Dissertation: Be Flexible, but Not Too Flexible: Limited Variable-Force Modals in Kinande and the Typology of Modal Force
Position: Visiting Lecturer, Yale University
Email: lydia (dot) newkirk (at) rutgers (dot) edu
Augustina Owusu
Dissertation: Cross-Categorial Definiteness/Familiarity
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College
Email: augustina (dot) owusu (at) bc (dot) edu
Yu Cao
Dissertation: Plurality and Quantification in Graph Representation of Meaning
Position: Applied Researcher, eBay
Jillian Harper (Masters)
Christopher Oakden
Dissertation: Modeling Phonological Interactions Using Recursive Schemes
Position: Program Manager, UC Berkeley
Deepak Alok
Dissertation: Speaker and Addressee in Natural Language: Honorificity, Indexicality and Their Interaction in Magahi
Position: Senior Linguist, Panlingua Language Processing LLP
Email: deepak06alok (at) gmail (dot) com
Vera Gor
Dissertation: Experimental Investigations of Principle C at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
Affiliation: Meta
Email: vgor (at) fb (dot) com
Chen Zhou (Masters)
Wenyue Hua (Masters)
Morgan Moyer
Dissertation: The Question of Questions: Resolving (Non-)Exhaustivity in Wh-Questions
Position: Post-doctoral fellow, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle, CNRS, Paris, France
Email: mcmoyer11 (at) gmail (dot) com
Livia Camargo Souza
Dissertation: Switch-Reference as Anaphora: A Modular Account
Ümit Atlamaz
Dissertation: Agreement, Case, and Nominal Licensing
Affiliation: Boğaziçi University
Email: umitatlamaz (at) gmail (dot) com
Jess Law
Dissertation: Constraints on Distributivity
Position: Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Email: jesslaw (at) ucsc (dot) edu
Yağmur Sağ
Dissertation: The Semantics of Number Marking: Reference to Kinds, Counting, and Optional Classifiers
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College
Email: yagmursag (at) gmail (dot) com
Yi-Hsun Chen
Dissertation: Superlative Modifiers: Ignorance and Concession
Position: Research Fellow, Nanjing University, China
Email: yheasonchen (at) gmail (dot) com
Nick Danis
Dissertation: Complex Place and Place Identity
Position: Lecturer in Linguistics, Washington University, St. Louis
Email: nsdanis (at) wustl (dot) edu
Natalie Delbusso
Dissertation: Typological Structure and Properties of Property Theory
Email: n (dot) delbusso (at) rutgers (dot) edu
Luca Iacoponi
Dissertation: Phonological Agreement by Headed Feature Correspondence: Extending Corresponding Theory to Output Features Nodes
Position: Research Scientist, Amazon
Email: lacoponi (at) amazon (dot) com
Shu-hao Shih
Dissertation: Non-moraic Schwa: Phonology and Phonetics
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University
Email: shuhaoshih (at) ntu (dot) edu (dot) tw
Diti Bhadra
Dissertation: Evidentiality and Questions: Bangla at the Interfaces
Position: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Email: ditibhadra (at) fas (dot) harvard (dot) edu
Věra Dvořák
Dissertation: Generic and Indefinite Null Objects
Position: Analytical Linguist, ServiceNow, CA
Email: vera (dot) dvorak (dot) ling (at) gmail (dot) com
Nicholas Winter (Masters)
Beibei Xu
Dissertation: Question Bias and Biased Question Words in Mandarin, German and Bangla
Position: Associate Professor, College of Foreign Languages, Huazhong Agricultural University
Email: billyxu (at) billyxu83 (dot) com
Vandana Bajaj
Dissertation: Scaling Up Exclusive -hii
Position: Assistant Director, Princeton Center for Language Study, Princeton University
Email: vbajaj (at) scarletmail (dot) rutgers (dot) edu
Mingming Liu
Dissertation: Varieties of Alternatives
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, China
Email: markliu (at) scarletmail (dot) rutgers (dot) edu
Hope McManus
Dissertation: Stress Parallels in Modern OT
Email: hmcmanus (at) scarletmail (dot) rutgers (dot) edu
Naga Selvanathan
Dissertation: Inversion in Copular Clauses and Its Consequences
Position: Visiting Fellow, National University of Singapore
Email: nagaselv (at) gmail (dot) com
Carlos A. Fasola Palavecino
Dissertation: Topics in the Syntax of Mapudungun Subordinate Clauses
Matt Barros
Dissertation: Sluicing and Identity in Ellipsis
Position: Lecturer in Linguistics, Washington University, St. Louis
Email: matthew (dot) barros (at) wustl (dot) edu
Peter Staroverov
Dissertation: Splitting Theory and Consonant Epenthesis
Position: Voice Building Engineer, Apple
William Bennett
Dissertation: Dissimilation, Consonant Harmony, and Surface Correspondence
Position: Senior Lecturer, Linguistics Department, Rhodes University
Email: w (dot) bennett (a) ru (dot) ac (dot) za
Aaron Braver
Dissertation: Degrees of Incompleteness in Neutralization: Paradigm Uniformity in a Phonetics with Weighted Constraints
Position: Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, Texas Tech University
Email: aaron (at) aaronbraver (dot) com
Paula Houghton
Dissertation: Switch Languages: Theoretical Consequences and Empirical Reality
Email: paulash (at) scarletmail (dot) rutgers (dot) edu
Todor Koev
Dissertation: Apposition and the Structure of Discourse
Position: Senior Lecturer, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Email: tkoev (at) scarletmail (dot) rutgers (dot) edu
Jeremy Perkins
Dissertation: Consonant-Tone Interaction in Thai
Position: Associate Professor at the Center for Language Research, University of Aizu
Email: perkins (at) u-aizu (dot) ac (dot) jp
Teresa Torres Bustamente
Dissertation: On the Syntax and Semantics of Mirativity: Evidence from Spanish and Albanian
Position: Visiting Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Departamento de Humanidades), Universidad de Lima (Estudios Generales)
Crystal Akers
Dissertation: Commitment-Based Learning of Hidden Linguistic Structures
Position: Associate Teaching Professor and Online Program Coordinator, Rutgers University Department of Linguistics
Email: cakers (at) rutgers (dot) edu
Heeshin Koak
Dissertation: Structural Case Assignment in Korean
Carlo Linares
Dissertation: The Dependency Axiom and the Relation between Agreement and Movement
Daniel Altshuler
Dissertation: Temporal Interpretation in Narrative Discourse and Event Internal Reference
Position: Associate Professor of Semantics in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford
Email: daniel.altshuler (at) ling-phil (dot) ox (dot) ac (dot) uk
Slavica Kochovska
Dissertation: Macedonian Direct Objects, Clitics and the Left Periphery
Affilation: Adjunct faculty, University of Wollongong
Sarah Murray
Dissertation: Evidentiality and the Structure of Speech Acts
Position: Associate Professor of Linguistics, Cornell University
Email: sem296 (at) cornell (dot) edu
Natalia Kariaeva
Dissertation: Radical Discontinuity: Syntax at the Interface
Xiao Li
Dissertation: Degreeless Comparatives
Position: Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics at Queens College, CUNY
Email: xiao (dot) li (at) qc (dot) cuny (dot) edu
Liping Chen
Dissertation: dou: Distributivity and Beyond
Position: Professor of Linguistics, Center for Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Studies, Sichuan International Studies University, China
Seunghun Lee
Dissertation: Consonant-Tone Interaction in Optimality Theory
Position: Senior Associate Professor of Linguistics, International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan
Email: seunghunlee (at) ccsu (dot) edu
Nazarré Merchant
Dissertation: Discovering Underlying Forms: Contrast Pairs and Ranking
Position: Associate Professor of Mathematics, Eckerd College
merchann (at) eckerd (dot) edu
Jessica Rett
Dissertation: Degree Modification in Natural Language
Position: Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Email: rett (at) ucla (dot) edu
Adrian Brasoveanu
Dissertation: Structured Nominal and Modal Reference
Position: Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California at Santa Cruz
Email: abrsvn (at) ucsc (dot) edu
José Elias-Ulloa
Dissertation: Theoretical Aspects of Panoan Metrical Phonology: Disyllabic Footing and Contextual Syllable Weight
Position: Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stony Brook University (SUNY)
Email: Jose (dot) Elias-Ulloa (at) sunysb (dot) edu
Oluseye Adesola
Dissertation: Pronouns and Null Operators - A-bar Dependencies and Relations in Yoruba
Position: Senior Lector, Program in African Languages, Yale University
Email: oluseye (dot) adesola (at) yale (dot) edu
Daphna Heller
Dissertation: Identity and Information: Semantic and Pragmatic Aspects of Specificational Sentences
Position: Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
Email: daphna (dot) heller (at) utoronto (dot) ca
Vita Markman
Dissertation: The Syntax of Case and Agreement: Its Relationship to Morphology and Argument Structure
Position: Staff Software Engineer, LinkedIn
Heather Robinson
Dissertation: Unexpected (In)definiteness: Plural Generic Expressions in Romance
Position: Associate Professor and Director of the Writing Program, Department of English, York College
Email: hrobinson (at) york (dot) cuny (dot) edu
Bruce Hall
Dissertation: Natural Quantification in Optimality Theory
Graham Horwood
Dissertation: Order without Chaos: Relational Faithfulness and Position of Exponence in Optimality Theory
Position: Senior Data Scientist, Amazon
Yoko Futagi
Dissertation: Japanese Focus Particles at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Position: Capability Implementation Manager, NLP and Speech, R&D, Educational Testing Service
Email: yfutagi (at) ets (dot) org
Lian-Hee Wee
Dissertation: Inter-Tier Correspondence Theory
Position: Assistant Professor, Dept of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University
Email: chswlh (at) nus (dot) edu (dot) sg
Nicole Nelson
Dissertation: Asymmetric Anchoring
Email: olenicole (at) gmail (dot) com
Masaaki Fuji
Dissertation: Syntax and Semantics of Concealed Causative Constructions in Japanese
Position: Associate Professor in English, Department of Marine Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Email: fuji (at) kaiyodai (dot) ac (dot) jp
Thomas Werner
Dissertation: Deducing the Future and Distinguishing the Past: Temporal Interpretation in Modal Sentences in English
Position: Adjunct Teaching Faculty, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
Email: twerner (at) andrew (dot) cmu (dot) edu
Alexandra Zepter
Dissertation: Phrase Structure Directionality: Having a few Choices
Position: Associate Professor, University of Cologne
Email: azepter (at) worthaus (dot) com
Ron Artstein
Dissertation: Parts of Words: Compositional Semantics for Prosodic Constituents
Position: Manager of Corpus Development, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
Email: artstein (at) ict (dot) usc (dot) edu
Luba Butska
Dissertation: Faithful Stress in Paradigms: Nominal Inflection in Ukrainian and Russian
Ahmadu Kawu
Dissertation: Variation in Nupe Phonology and Morphology
Email: ankawu96 (at) yahoo (dot) com
Brett Hyde
Dissertation: Metrical and Prosodic Structure in Optimality Theory
Position: Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University
Email: bhyde (at) artsci (dot) wustl (dot) edu
Susanne Preuss
Dissertation: Issues in the Semantics of Questions with Quantifiers
Position: Institute for Applied Information Sciences, University of Saarbruecken
Email: sp4545 (at) excite (dot) com
Rong (Rachel) Yang
Dissertation: Common Nouns, Classifiers, and Quantification in Chinese
Eric Bakovic
Dissertation: Harmony, Dominance and Control
Position: Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of California at San Diego
Email: ebakovic (at) ucsd (dot) edu
Olga Babko-Malaya
Dissertation: Zero Morphology: A Study of Aspect, Argument Structure, and Case
Affiliation: BAE Systems
Email: babko (at) in-tch (dot) com
Edward Keer
Dissertation: Geminates, the OCP and the Nature of CON
Affiliation: MediMedia Managed Markets
Email: ekeer (at) dorland (dot) com
Takeo Kurafuji
Dissertation: Japanese Pronouns in Dynamic Semantics: The Null/Overt Contrast
Position: Professor, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Email: kurafuji (at) fc (dot) ritsumei (dot) ac (dot) jp
Christine Brisson
Dissertation: Distributivity, Maximality, and Floating Quantifiers
Position: Associate Director for Special Sessions, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania
Email: brisson (at) seas (dot) upenn (dot) edu
Yael Sharvit
Dissertation: The Syntax and Semantics of Functional Relative Clauses
Position: Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Email: ysharvit (at) gmail (dot) com
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Vieri Samek-Lodovici
Dissertation: Constraints on Subjects: An Optimality Theoretic Analysis
Position: Reader in Linguistics, Department of Italian, University College, London
Email: ucljvsl (at) ucl (dot) ac (dot) uk
Strang Burton
Dissertation: Six Issues to Consider in Choosing a Husband: Possessive Relations in the Lexical Semantic Structures of Verbs
Position: Linguist and Multimedia Developer, Sto:lo Nation, Chilliwack
Email: Strang (dot) Burton (at) stolonation (dot) bc (dot) ca
As a reminder, select dissertations can also be accessed in this Box Folder.