Recent Dissertations
2006
Abrams, Percy - Onondaga Pronominal Prefixes
Amazaki, Osamu - A Functional Analysis of Numeral Quantifier Constructions in Japanese
Awuku, Ameyo - Phiysio-Psychological Concept Expressions in Ewe: A Snytax-Semantics Lexicon
Nishiyama, Atsuko - The Semantics and Pragmatics of the Perfect in English and Japanese
Wu, Jing Lan Joy - Verb Classification, Case Marking, and Grammatical Relations in Amis
Yamasaki, Yumi - Constituent Ordering Spoken Japanese
2005
Binns, Kathleen - Content Questions in American Sign LanguageConklin, Kathryn - Bilingual Access to Interlingual Homographs: Examination of Effects of Sentential Context, Word Frequency, and Proficiency
Eschenberg, Ardis - The Article System of UmoNhoN
Low, Mei-Han - The Phenomenon of the Word THE in English
McDaniels, Todd - Establishing perspective in Comanche Narrative
Guerrero-Valenzuela, Lilian Graciela - The syntax-semantic interface in Yaqui complex constructions, a Role and Reference Grammar Analysis. .zip file; .sit file.
2003
Bloomquist, Jennifer - Cross-cultural semantic acquisition: Evidence from over-extensions in child language
Imai, Shingo - Spatial Deixis (2/03)
Kodama, Tomiko - Japanese Aspectual Compound Verbs and the Verbal Affixes: An attempt at a Cognitive Semantic Analysis. (2/03)
McClive, Thomas - The Social Accommodation Model in the Discourse of Pragmatic Opposition
Ng, Eve - Demonstrative words in the Algonquian Language Passamaquoddy: A descriptive and grammaticalization analysis (2/03) (Complete pdf version.)
Paris, Luis - Grammatical Encoding of Event Relations: Gerund Phrases in Spanish (2/03)
2002
Davidson, Matthew - Studies in Southern Wakashan (Nootkan) Grammar. (Complete pdf version.) (6/02)Krainz, Stacy - Professionalism vs. Audience Appeal in News Analysis Discussions: A Journalist's Dilemma. (9/02)
Muansuwan, Nuttanart - Verb Complexes in Thai. (Complete zipped pdf version) (2/02)
Toratani, Kyoko - The morphoyntax and the logical structures of compound verbs in Japanese. (Download parts I, II, III) (6/02)
2001
Im, Sung-Chool - Typological Patterns of Motion Verbs in Korean (9/01)Kopris, Craig - A Grammar and Dictionary of Wyandot (9/01)
Melinger, Alissa - Morphological Complexity in English Prefixed Words: An Experimental Investigation (Complete pdf version)(2/01)
Rangkupan, Suda - Linguistic Characteristics of Psychological Perspective in Thai Narrative Discourse (2/01)
2000
Facundes, Sidney - The Language of the Apurina People of Brazil (Maipure/Arawak) (6/00) (Complete pdf version.)
Houghton, David - Something about 'Anything': A Semantic Study of 'A', 'The', 'Any', & 'Certain'. (Complete pdf version.) (9/00)
Um, Yongnam - Tone and Related phonological aspects of Middle Korean and Modern Dialects with reference to vowel length (9/00)
Weber, Heather - Language and Interaction in a Usenet Newsgroup: Method and Analysis (2/00)
1999
Han, Jeonghan - Grammatical Codings of Information Structure in Korean: A Role and Reference Grammar Account (Download PDF's of Chapters: 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) (2/99)Kang, Kyung-Shim - The Phonetics and Phonology of Korean and Thai Obstruents (9/99)
Min, Haesik - The Organization of Korean Spatial Concepts and Its Implications for the Korean-English Bilingual Lexicon (9/99)
Wan, I-Ping - Mandarin Phonology: Evidence from Speech Errors (9/99)
Wells-Jensen, Sheri - Cognitive Correlates of Linguistic Complexity: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Errors in Speech (9/99)
1998
Diessel, Holger - Demonstratives in Cross linguistic and Diachronic Perspectives (9/98)Lee, Heechul - The Syntax and Semantics of the Korean Periphrasic Causative Construction (2/98)
Mushin, Ilana - Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance in Macedonian, English, and Japanese Narrative (6/98)
Watanabe, Noriko - A Functional Study of Character Introduction in Japanese Narrative: Examples from Oral Storytelling and Written Stories (2/98)
1997
Nakamura, Wataru - A Constraint Based Typology of Case Systems (Download PDF Table of Contents and Chapters 1-3, 7) (2/97)1996
Bumatay, Rosalina - A Focus Group Approach to the Study of Narrative Reading (2/96)
Honda, Isao - Negation: A Cross-Linguistic Study, (2/96)
Kemmerer, David - An Investigation of Syntactic Comprehension Deficits in Parkinson's Disease (Download PDF) (9/96)
Madera, Monica - The Role of Language in the Perception of Ethnic Identity: The Case of the Buffalo Latino Hispanic/Hispanic Community (9/96)
1995
Park, Ki-Seong - The Semantics and Pragmatics of Case Marking in Korean: A Role and Reference Grammar Account (Download PDF) (9/95)Shimojo, Mitsuaki - Focus Structure and Morphosyntax in Japanese: Wa and Ga and Word Order Flexibility (Download PDF) (9/95)
1994
Devitt, Daniel - Copula Constructions in Cross Linguistic and Diachronic Perspective (9/94)Oh, Sang-Ryong - Korean Numeral Classifiers: Semantics and Universals (9/94)
Shafer, Valerie - An Electrophysiological Investigation of the Ability of Infants to Distinguish their Native Language from Non-Native Languages (9/94)
Yang, Byong-Seon - Morphosyntactic Phenomena of Korean in Role and Reference Grammar: Psych-Verb Constructions, Inflectional Verb Morphemes, Complex Sentences, and Relative Clauses (Download PDF) (6/94)
1993
Li, Frank - A Diachronic Study of V-V Compounds in Chinese (9/93)Whaley, Lindsay - The status of Obliques in Linguistic Theory (9/93)
1992
Abdoulaye, Mahamane L. - Aspects of Hausa Morphosyntax in Role and Reference Grammar (Download PDF)Ph.D. research in progress:
Beach, Matthew - A Descriptive Grammar of Mayan
Chief, Lian-Cheng - Complete and Incomplete events in Chinese
Cornish, Jennifer - An acoustic and correlational study of the co-evolution of prosody and morphological structure
Fried, Robert - Baonan Tu Grammar
Graves, Thomas - A Grammar of Kurima Sherpa
Hong, Sunyoung - The Phonetics-Phonology Interface of North Kyungsang Korean Prosody
Ishiyama, Osamu - Linguistic Politeness in Japanese
Kang, Sang-gu - Semantics and Pragmtics of Korean Focus Particles
Kim, Myoyoung - A Study of Bilingual Slips of the Tongue
Kuriyama, Keiko - The Status of the Mora in Japanese Speech Production Planning/A Developmental Study of Mora
Lehnert, Heike - Typology, Phonetics, and Phonlogy or Long Vowels
Lyakh, Viktoriya - Forensic implications of understanding yes-no questions by monolingual and bilingual children
Miura, Hidematsu - Voice and Related-Constructions in Japanese: from morpho-syntax to discourse
Perez Baez, Gabriela - Language preservation and language description in Zapotec languages
Perkins, Marla - Spatial Cognition in Grimms' Fairy Tales and Brer Rabbit Stories: An Investigation into the Nature and Causes of the Making of Mental Maps
Phipps, Christopher - Coercion in English Prepositional Complements
Romero-Mendez, Rodrigo - Grammar of Mixe
Sheffer, Anne Colette - Discourse pragmatics
Yoshida, Takashi - Case marking in intransitive sentences in Japanese aphasia
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