Where are they now: 2000-2009
2009
Yong-Taek Kim. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of his advisor, Eric Pederson, “Event Construal and its Linguistic
Encoding: Towards an Extended Semantic Map Model”. Dr. Kim is an assistant professor at Indiana University of Pennsylania in
the Department of Foreign Language.
2007
Carey Benom. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of his advisor, Eric Pederson, “An Empirical Study of English <<through>>
Lexical Semantics, Polysemy, and the Correctness Fallacy”. Dr. Benom is an associate professor of Japanese Linguistics at
Kyushu University in Japan.
2006
Andoveloniaina Rasolofo. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Doris Payne, “Malagasy Transitive Clause
Types and Their Functions”. Dr. Rasolofo is an adjunct lecturer of French at Manhattanville College in Purchasville, New York.
2005
Christiane DeOliveira. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Spike Gildea, “The Language of the Apinaje People
of Central Brazil”. Dr. DeOliveira is an assistant professor of Linguistics at the Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil.
2004
Marjorie (Mitzi) Barker. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Tom Givón, “Effects of Divided Attention on
Memory for Discourse”. Dr. Barker is an adjunct professor of Linguistics at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.
2003
Boniface Kaumba Kawasha. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of his advisor, Tom Givón, “Lunda Grammar: a
Morphsyntactic and Semantic Analysis”. Dr. Kawasha is an associate professor of Liberal Arts at Savannah State University in
Savannah, Georgia.
Jayeon Lim. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Jacquelyn Schachter, “The Developmental Process of English
Simple Past and Present Perfect by Adult Korean Learners”. Dr. Lim is an assistant professor in the Department of English
Language and Literature at University of Seoul in Seoul, Korea.
Tim Thornes. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of his advisor, Scott DeLancey, “A Northern Paute Grammar”. Dr. Thornes
is an assistant professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at Boise State University.
Pilar Maritza Valenzuela. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Doris Payne, “Transitivity in Shipibo-Konibo
Grammar”. Dr. Valenzuela is an associate professor at Chapman University in Orange, California.
2002
Connie Dickinson. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Scott DeLancey, “Complex Predicates in Tsafiki”. Dr.
Dickinson completed a Tsafiki Documentation Project in Ecuador with support from the National Science Foundation.
Atsuko Hayashi (deceased). Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Eric Pederson, “Lexicalization of Motion
Events in Japanese”. Formerly an assistant professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at Cal State Long
Beach in Long Beach, California.
Janne Underriner. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Scott DeLancey, “Intonation and Syntax in Klamath”.
Dr. Underriner is the Director of the Northwest Indian Languages Institute (NILI) at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.
2001
Alejandra Vidal. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Doris Payne, “Pilaga Grammar (Guaykuran Family,
Argentina)”. Dr. Vidal with co-PI, Doris Payne, received a NSF to document and compare Lexicon and Morphosyntax of Nivacle
and Pilaga, of Northern Argentina. Dr. Vidal is an investigator with the Consejo Nacional de Investigacions Cientificas y
Tecnológias (CONICET) and an adjunct professor of Linguistics at Universidad Nacional de Formosa in Argentina.
2000
Unchalee Singnoi. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Scott DeLancey, “Nominal Constructions in Thai”. Dr.
Singnoi is an associate professor in Linguistics at Naresuan Univeristy in Phitsanuloke, Thailand.
Belinda Young-Davy. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of her advisor, Russ Tomlin, “A Cognitive-Semantic Approach to
Acquisition of English Prepositions”. Dr. Young-Davy is an instructor in the American English Institute (AEI) at the University of
Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
Roberto Zavala. Ph.D. Dissertation under the direction of his advisor, Scott DeLancey, “Inversion and Other Topics in the
Grammar of Olutec (Mixean)”. Dr. Zavala is the director of the Research for Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESASSureste) at San Cristobal de las Casa in Chiapas, Mexico.