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Baek, Mihyun. 1997. The Korean I-Suffix: A functional approach. Supervisor: P Davis.

Baker, John. 1994. Determinacy and Participant Formation: De marmore angeli. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Barbe, Katharina. 1989. Irony in Conversational German: A linguistic approach. Supervisor: J. Copeland.

 Brunner, Elizabeth Gentry. 2010. Imitation, Awareness, and Folk Linguistic Artifacts. Supervisor: N. Niedzielski.

Burdine, Stephanie. 2002. Means to an End: Communication Strategies in French Immersion. Supervisor: M. Barlow

Caesar-Fox, Desrey. 2003. Zauro'nodok Agawayo Yau: Variants of Akawaio Spoken at Waramadong. Supervisor, S. Gildea.

Cameron, Carrie. 1990. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Voice Systems: A functional analysis. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Cobin, Peter. 1989. Linguistic Subsystems of a Chicano Child. Supervisor: S. Lamb. 

 Colley, Michael. 2010. Dipthongization in Brazilian Portuguese. Supervisor: N. Niedzielski.

Cummings, Elizabeth. 1989.Indefiniteness, Direct Objects, and Word Order in Hixaryana. Supervisor: S. Tyler.

 Edmiston, Cynthia. 1988. English Grammar as a Stratified System of Signs. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Everett, Caleb. 2006.Patterns in Karitiana: Articulation, Perception, and Grammar.Supervisor: M. Shibatani

Felix, Rolando. 2006. A Grammar of River Warihio. Supervisor: P. Davis

Filchenko, Andrey Yury. 2007. A Grammar of Eastern Khanty. Supervisor: M. Shibatani.

Fleck, David W. 2003. A Grammar of Matses. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Guirardello, Raquel. 1999. A Grammar of Trumai. Supervisor: S. Gildea.

Hardy, Donald. 1988. The Semantics of Creek Morphosyntax. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Harrison, Colin. 2000. PureNet: A Modeling Program for Neurocognitive Linguistics. Supervisor: S. Lamb.                                                                    
Hartenstein, Anne Marie. 2012. Middle Voice in Northern Moldavian Hungarian . Supervisor: M.Shibatani                                                                     
Hilpert, Martin. 2007. Germanic Future Constructions: A Usage Based Approach to Grammaticalization. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.  

 Huang, Lillian. 1987. Aspect: A General System and Its Manifestation in Mandarin Chinese. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Katten, David. 2011. Transitivity and Intonation; A Preliminary Account of Transitive Lowering.  Supervisor: K. Crosswhite.

Katz, Aya. 1996. Cyclical Grammaticalization and the Cognitive Link Between Pronoun and Copula. Supervisor: J. Copeland. 

Koops, Christian. 2010. Sociophonetic Knowledge in Speech Perception. Supervisor: N. Niedzielski.

 Lanz, Linda. 2010. A Grammar of Inupiaq Morphosyntax. Supervisor: C. Bowern.

Lee, Chang-In. 1988. A Dynamic Model of Comprehension with Applications to Korean and English. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Lee, Jeong-Hwa. 1999. The Semantics of Manipulative Motion Verbs in Korean, with Reference to English. Supervisor: P. Davis. 

 Lin, Gujing. 2010. The Argument Structure of Tsou: Simplex and Complex Predicates. Supervisor: M. Shibatani.

McCracken, Chelsea. 2012. A Grammar of Belep. Supervisor: C. Willis.

Mead, David. 1998. The Reconstruction of Proto-Bungku-Tolaki and Aspects of its Morphosyntax. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Meira, Sergio S.C.O. 1999. A First Grammar of Tiriyo. Supervisor: S. Gildea.

Meyer, Cynthia. 1991. Talk of Times Past: On the Interaction of Cognitive Systems in Conversation. Supervisor: S. Lamb.         

Morrison, Michelle. 2011. A Reference Grammar of Bena. Supervisor: C. Bowern.                                                                                                              
Nagaya, Naonori. 2011. The Lamaholot Language of Eastern Indonesia. Supervisor: M. Shibatani.                                                                                 
Novak, Barbra. 2006. Cortical Processing of Real Words, Pseudowords and Nonwords as Measured by Magnetoencephalography. Supervisor: S. Lamb.  

Pantos, Andrew. 2010. Measuring Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Toward Foreign-Accented Speech. Supervisor: N. Niedzielski.

Papp, Viktoria. 2011. The Female to Male Transgender Voice: Physiology vs. Performance in Production. Supervisor: K. Crosswhite

Pulju, Timothy. 1995. Problems in the Reconstruction of Indo-European Stop Consonants. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Rasch, Jeffrey. 2002. The Basic Morpho Syntax of Yaitepec Chatino. Supervisor: P. Davis.   

Rohde, Ada. 2001. Analyzing PATH: The Interplay of Verbs, Prepositions and Constructional Semantics. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Sanaphre, Monica. 2011. Analytic Causative Constructions in Medieval Spanish: The Origins of a Construction. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Sexton-Leuchtmann, Amy. 2001. Creating Characters and Reconstructing Texts: Evaluation in Children's Oral Narrative Re-tellings. Supervisor: J. Copeland.  

Shim, Pumsup. 2009. A Study on the Use of the Direct Bible Quotes in Evangelical Christian Self-Help Books: An Argumentative and Dialogic Approach. Supervisor: S. Tyler.

Spitz, Walter. 1997. Lost Causes: Morphological Causative Constructions in Philippine Languages. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Spruiell, William. 1990. Perspectives on Nominalization. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Stefanowitsch, Anatol. 2001. Constructing Causation: A Construction Grammar Approach to Analytic Causatives. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Tavares, Petronila. 2005. A Grammar of Wayana. Supervisor: S. Gildea.

Taylor, Christopher. 2011. Power to Represent: The Spatialized Politics of Style in Houston Hip Hop.  Supervisor: N. Niedzielski.

Yang, Insun. 1994. A Semantic Study of Discourse Connectivity in Korean. Supervisor: J.Copeland.                                                                             
Yoon, Soyeon. 2012. Constructions,Semantic Compatibility, and Coercion: An Empirical Usage-Based Approach. Supervisor: S.Kemmer.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Young, Hilary. 2002. C'est Either Que Tu Parles Français, C'est Either Que Tu Parles Anglais: A Cognitive Approach to Chiac as a Contact Language. Supervisor: M. Achard.

Zhang, Jian-nan. 1991. The Relationship between Processes and Participants in Chinese. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Zhang, Xiuhong. 2001. Complex Verbal Lexemes in Chinese. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Bruff, Gary. 1995. Rhetoric and Grammar. Supervisor: S. Tyler.

Cramer, Sabine. 1987. Naming and Classification. Supervisor: S. Tyler.

Feicht, Sherry. 1995. Functional German Grammar: A pedagogical application of Fleming's communication analysis. Supervisor: J. Copeland.

Fletcher, J.C. 2006. Effects of coda voicing on onset/n/ and /l/ duration in American English. Supervisor: K. Crosswhite.

Fu, Qiying. 1991. The Description of Chinese Substantives using an Analogical Approach to Syntax. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Gagliano, Eugene. 1990. Phonological Chunking in German and English: Segment, juncture, and boundary. Supervisor: J.Copeland.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
Hoecker, Jennifer. 2011. Not Quite Your Grandmother's Jam: Place, Time, and Identity in Constructing a Home-Canning Community of Practice. Supervisor: R.Englebretson.                                                                                                                                                                                              
Lu, Wendy Li-jung. 1990. The Semantics of Taiwanese U. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Meira, Sergio S.C.O. 1998. A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and inflectional morphology. Supervisor: S. Gildea.

Nash, Carlos. 2001. Evaluating the Use of Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) Data Compression in Acoustic Phonetics. Supervisor: N. Niedzielski.

Newell, John. 1998. Metaphor in a Neurocognitive Theory of Language. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Nilakanta, Rema. 1985. Discourse Functions of Negation in Modern German. Supervisor: J. Copeland.

Reindl, Donald. 1994. The Semantics of the Preposition Na in Slavic Spatial Constructions. Supervisor: S. Tyler.

Thesieres, Holly. 2001. Comparative Vowel Allophony in Dialects of Arabic. Supervisor: N. Niedzielski.

Wiedrick, Jack. 2000. A Grammar of Middle Japanese. Supervisor: P. Davis.

Wu, Zhijun. 1988. Strategies for Natural Language Processing using Stratified Grammar. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Zhang, Yiming. 1990. Toward a Dynamic Grammar of Chinese. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Birenbaum, Simon. 2005. The correlations among catch phrase usage, friendship groups, and social networks. Supervisor: N. Niedzielski.

Chiao, Sue Wen. 1998. Luo Causative Constructions. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Eckel, Malcolm. 2007. An Examination of The Definite Article in Discourse. Supervisor: R. Englebretson.

Grant, Alexis. 2003. Politeness Strategies in Hierarchical Online Communities: A case study of the live journal user documentation community. Supervisor: R. Englebretson.

Greiner, John. 1989. The Dynamic Grammar Interpreter. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Harston, Katrina. 2000. Phonosymbolism in Japanese. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Hegarty, Rick. 1995. A Computerized Model of the Babbling Stage in Language Development. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Hess, Holly. 2006. The Effects of Brain Damage on Verb Production in Natural Discourse. Supervisor: R. Englebretson.

Hu, Wenlei. 2000. ESL Learner Strategies. Supervisor: M. Barlow.

Leyton-Mange, Andrea. 2007. Vowel Formant Frequencies and Occurrence of Non-Modal Phonation in the Speech of Trained Opera Singers. Supervisor: N. Niedzielski.

Mack, Jennifer. 2004. An Exploration of the Relationship Between Prosody, Grammar, and Meaning in Spoken American English Interrogatives. Supervisor: R. Englebretson.

Mathieu-Reeves, Danielle. 2005. A Cross-Linguistic Study of the Copula: Two Copular Classes. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Matzen, Laura. 2003. Discourse Markers and Prosody: A case study of 'so'. Supervisor: R. Englebretson.

Rabalais, Laura. 2008. Noun classification in South East Asia. Supervisor: C. Bowern.

Schafer, Emily. (now Emily Tallent.) 1999. Phonological Processing in Children: A Study Using Magnetoencephalography. Supervisor: S. Lamb.

Theriot, Jude. 1995. A Psycholinguistic Study of Semantic Schemas Associated with English in front of / in back of. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Wheeler, Ben. 2005. A Preliminary Investigation of Constructional Profile Analysis. Supervisor: S. Kemmer.

Beginning in 2002, the department has awarded the Linguistics Prize for Excellence to officially recognize exceptional achievement in the major. This prize is awarded to a graduating senior Linguistics major who, in the judgment of the faculty, has demonstrated outstanding performance throughout their undergraduate career. Recipients and co-recipients of this award are listed below.   

 2010

 Kasey Michelle Craig-Ashley
Amy Gabrielle Cacho-Negrete
Elena Marie Fabiano
Rochelle Julianne Herbst
Stephen Colthurst Perry
Sarah Anne Spinella

2009

Margaret Claire Bjoring
Leah Maria Bowen
Virginia Rose Busby
Sarah Tess Carrithers
Emily Anne Fortuna
Adriene Christina Giese
Joshua Morris Levin
Margeux Rendall
Devon Griffith Rutherford                                                                                                                                                             Quinn Margaret Shadko
Ryan Sanura Stickney
Brittanie Lashae Wallace
Natalie Ann Weber
Katelyn Celeste Willis

2008    

Ivy Ashe
Andrew Chifari
Christine Deden
Beth Greaney
Graciela (Gracie) Hernandez
Beth Jablinski
Megan Mulholland
Laura Rabalais
Daniel Spence
Margaret Tung
Kim Villareal

2007

Claire Anderson
Jared Blakely
Caroline Crites
Malcolm Eckel
Amber Feight
Andrew Harrison
Lauren Hicks
Andrea Leyton-Mange
Julia Pike  

2006

Matthew Anderson
Barrett Brown
Lauren Candia
Holly Hess
Sara Lide
Danielle Mathieu-Reeves
Bertram Shih
Vanessa Tobert
Ben Walker   

2005

Simon Birenbaum
Annie Fadely
Adria Karlsson
Emily Matuzek
Ben Wheeler
Jeff Whitehurst

2004

Allison Beckford
Morgan Gossom
Sarah Key
Jennie Mack
Caleb Redfield
Chandra Smith
Lindsay Sutton 

2003

Lelac Almagor
Aarti Bhalodia
Lisa De Falco
Laura Fagundes
Maggie Fogarty
Alexis Grant
Melissa Jordan
Michelle Lloyd
Laura Matzen
Marcus Perlman

2002

Ilana Bromberg
Vivian Chum
Brianna Conrey
Lillian Hagens
Norma Haro
Robert Hawke
Lori Hellkamp
Randi Johnson
Melissa Jordan
Megan McGehee
Rey Romero
Robert Reichle
Laurie Scott
Wally Upp  

2001

Vergel Cruz
Katherine Ketner
Ellen Kirby
Todd Makse
Megan Mamalis
Lauren Schiff
Mindy Simmons
Brian Webster
Mike Yantosca

2000

Alexis Biedenfeldt
Elizabeth Fisher
Katrina Harston
Wenlei (Wendy) Hu
Emily Mankin
Maureen McGuckin
Mark Wenthe

1999   

Christy Adessa
Catherine Fine
Jennifer Griffin
Ben Hayden
Erin Makulski
Melissa McConachie
Carlos Nash
Jessica Petrillo
Emily Schafer
Rebecca Williams

1998

Andrew Bagley
Sue Wen Chiao
Andy Hickl
Karmaine Millington  

1997

Jennifer Davidow
Leigh Estes
Carolyn Harris
Lara Kaplan
Melissa Kuhnell
Krista Noack
Jessica Peterson
Mikael Thompson
Mark Vogan

1996

Ronald Jackson
David Miller
Eric Sutton  

1995  

Sean (Jeff) Allen
Rick Hegarty
Jude Theriot

1994

Gilbert Ramirez  

If you are an alum of one of our degree programs and do not see your name, please email Suzanne Kemmer at kemmer.