DISSERTATIONS
2015
Student
Danielle Barth
Advisor
Volya Kapatsinski
Jaime Pena
Doris Payne
Title
To HAVE and to BE: Function Word Reduction in Child
Speech, Child-Directed Speech and Inter-Adult Speech
A Grammar of Wampis
2014
Student
Ying Chen
Advisor
Melissa Redford
Linda Konnerth
Hema Sirsa
Scott DeLancey
Melissa Redford
Title
Prosodic Realization of Focus in Sound Speech: Effects of
Language Experience
A Grammar of Karbi
First Language on Sociolinguistic Influences on the Sound
Patterns of Indian English
2013
Student
Brian Butler
Tam Nguyen
Anna Pucilowski
Advisor
Eric Pederson
Scott DeLancey
Doris Payne
Title
A Semantic Map Approach to English Articles (a, the, and o)
A Grammar of Bih
Topics in the Morphosyntax and Morphophonology of Ho
Advisor
Doris Payne
Doris Payne
Scott DeLancey
Eric Pederson
Scott DeLancey
Scott DeLancey
Title
A Grammar of Northern and Southern Gumuz
A Grammar of Northern Mao
Wantwint inmi tianwit: A Reflection of What I have Learned
A Semantic Map Approach to English Articles (a, the, and o)
A Reassessment of the Genetic Classification of Milik Coos
An Investigation of Various Linguistic Changes in Chinese
and Naxi
Student
Gwendolyn Hyslop
Grace Oh
Advisor
Scott Delancey
Susan Guion-Anderson
Irina Shport
Susan Guion-Anderson
Title
A Grammar of Kurtop
The effect of age of acquisition and second-language
experience on prosody and segments: A cross-sectional study
of Korean bilinguals’ English and Korean production
Cross-linguistic perception and learning of Japanese lexical
prosody by English listeners
2012
Student
Colleen Ahland
Michael Ahland
Virginia Beavert
Brian Butler
Christopher Doty
Jung-yao Lu
2011
2010
Student
Joana Jansen
Rosa Vallejos Yopan
Advisor
Scott DeLancey
Spike Gildea
Title
A Yakima Sahaptin/Ichishkin Grammar with Texts
A Grammar of Kokama-Kokamilla
Racquel Yamada
Spike Gildea
Kun Yue
Eric Pederson
Speech Community-based Documentation, Description, and
Revitalization: Kari’nja in Konomerume
Empirical Studies of Interactions of Semantic Roles: The
Agent and Patient in Mandarin Chinese
2009
Student
Kyoung-ho Kang
Advisor
Susan Guion-Anderson
Yong-Taek Kim
Eric Pederson
Title
Clear Speech Production and Perception of Korean Stops and
the Sound Change in Korean Stops
Event Construal and its Linguistic Encoding: Towards an
Extended Semantic Map Model
2007
Student
Carey Benom
Advisor
Eric Pederson
Title
An Empirical Study of English <<through>> Lexical
Semantics, Polysemy, and the Correctness Fallacy
2006
Student
Andoveloniaina Rosolofi
Advisor
Doris Payne
Title
Malagasy Transitive Clause Types and their Functions
Advisor
Spike Gildea
Title
The Language of the Apinaje People of Central Brazil
Advisor
Tom Givón
Title
Effects of Divided Attention on Memory for Discourse
2005
Student
Christiane DeOliveria
2004
Student
Marjorie (Mitzi) Barker
2003
Student
Boniface Kawasha
Jayeon Lim
Advisor
Tom Givón
Jacquelyn Schachter
Timothy Thornes
Pilar Valenzuela
Scott DeLancey
Doris Payne
Title
Semantic Analysis
The Developmental Process of English Simple Past and
Present Perfect by Adult Korean Learners
A Northern Paiute Grammar
Transitivity in Shipibo-Konibo Grammar
Student
Connie Dickinson
Tsuko Hayashi
(Deceased)
Advisor
Scott DeLancey
Eric Pederson
Title
Complex Predicates in Tsafiki
Lexicalization of Motion Events in Japanese
Janne Underriner
Scott DeLancey
Intonation and Syntax in Klamath
Advisor
Doris Payne
Title
Pilaga Grammar (Guyakuruan Family, Argentina)
Student
Unchalee Singnoi
Belinda Young-Davy
Advisor
Scott DeLancey
Russ Tomlin
Roberto Zavala
Scott DeLancey
Title
Nominal Constructions in Thai
A Cognitive-Semantic Approach to the Acquisition of
English Prepositions
Scott DeLancey
2002
2001
Student
Alejandra Vidal
2000
1999
Student
Erik Andvik
Linda Forrest
Advisor
Scott DeLancey
Russ Tomlin
Jongbai Hwang
Russ Tomlin
Myint Soe
Scott DeLancey
Title
Tshangle Grammar
The Role of Attention and Activation in Language
Production: A Neuro-Cognitive Linguistics Approach
Attention and Second Language Acquisition: the Role of
Detection in the L2 Acquisition of English Passives
A Grammar in Burmese
Advisor
Scott DeLancey
Title
The Kham Language of West-Central Nepal (Takale Dialect)
Advisor
Colette Craig and Doris Payne
Title
Quichua and Spanish in the Ecuadorian Highlands: The
Effects of Long Term Contact
Advisor
Russ Tomlin
Title
Referent Management in Olo: A Cognitive Perspective
Advisor
Scott DeLancey
Jacquelyn Schachter
Colette Craig
Scott DeLancey
Title
Karao Phonology
Language and Culture at a Japanese Immersion School
Aspects of Akan Grammar—A Functional Perspective
Grammaticalization of Verbs in Three Tibeto-Burman
Languages
1998
Student
David Watters (Deceased)
1996
Student
Marleen Haboud Ortego
1995
Student
William Staley
1994
Student
Sherri Brainhard
Carl Falsgraf
Emmanuel Kweku Osam
Insun Park
1993
Student
Lalnunthangi Chhangte
Myung Hee Kim
Advisor
Scott DeLancey
Russ Tomlin
Lynne Yang
Tom Givón
Title
Mizo Syntax
The Interaction of Global and Local Theme in English
Narrative
Acquisition of a Second Language Under Controlled
Experimental Conditions
1992
Student
Spike Gildea
Advisor
Doris Payne
Anju Saxena
Scott DeLancey
Title
Comparative Cariban Morphoxyntax: On the Genesis of
Ergativity in Independent Clauses
Finite Morphology in Tibeto-Kinhauri
1991
Student
David Hargreaves
Advisor
Scott DeLancey
Title
The Concept of Intentional Action in the Grammar of
Kathmandu Newari
Student
Robert Carlson
Carol Genetti
Advisor
Tom Givón
Scott DeLancey
Violeta Ramsay
Hartmut Burmeister
Title
Tom Givón
A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Dolakha Newari
Dialect
Developmental Stages in the Acquisition of the Perfective
and the Imperfective Aspects by Classroom L2 Learners of
Spanish
1990
1989
Student
Chad Thompson
Yasuko Watanabe
(Deceased)
Advisor
Tom Givón
Tom Givón
Title
Voice and Obviation in Athabaskan and Other Languages
Function of <<WA>> and <<GA>> in Japanese Discourse
Student
Anne Cooreman
Advisor
Tom Givón
Noel Emerson Rude
Tom Givón
Title
Transitivity and Discourse Continuity in Chamorro
Narratives
Studies in Nez Perce Grammar and Discourse
1985
1980
Student
Sharon Taylor
Advisor
Clarence Sloat
Title
Lexical Idiosyncrasy in English: An Argument for a
Lexically Based Grammar
Advisor
Derry Malsh
Title
Finglish
Advisor
Clarence Sloat
Title
A Study of Some Negative Lexical Items in English
Advisor
Donald Taylor
Title
The Interplay of Mimetic and Didactic Informing Principles:
An Analysis
Advisor
Clarence Sloat
James Hoard
Title
Dominican Creole Phonology
Three Experimental Studies of Variation in English
1979
Student
Robert Hellstrom
1978
Student
Ralph Carlson
1976
Student
Richard Logsdon
1975
Student
Jon Amastae
Carl Mills
1973
Student
Lawrence Freeman
Advisor
Stoddard Malarkey
Richard Parr
Clarence Sloat
Title
Dialect Charactics of Late Middle English Prepositions in
Two Parallel Prose Works: “Ayenbite of Inwyt” and “Book
of Vices and Virtues
A Semantic Theory of Concrete Substantives
1971
Student
George Settera, Jr
Advisor
Clarence Sloat
Title
The Generative Model Extended: Three Essays in Modern
English Linguistics