Berkeley Ph.D.s in Linguistics 1963-2002

This is a list of Berkeley Ph.D. dissertations in Linguistics, arranged in reverse chronological order. (The inspiration was Stanford's nice webpage about their former students: http://www-linguistics.stanford.edu/people/alumni-phd.shtml.) The database is just the library database of its dissertations in Linguistics, which means it has the following drawbacks: (1) it doesn't say where people are now; (2) in the older period it includes a certain number of M.A. theses too, since the cataloging procedure seems not to have distinguished them; and (3) there are some people missing. Still, this might be useful to some readers.

ADDITIONAL RECENT Ph.D. recipients 2001-2002
Paula Rogers (2002)
Roengpat Roengpitya (2002)
Nurit Melnik (2002)
Julie Lewis (2002)
Marvin Kramer (2002)
Matt Juge (2002, now at SW Texas)
Aimée Bartosik (2002)
Jonathan Barnes (2002, now at BU)
Ben Bergen (2002, now at Hawai'i)

Sociolinguistic aspects of Thai politeness / by Leela Bilmes.<2001>
Tough construction in English: A construction grammar approach / by Yoon-Suk Chung <2001>
Theoretical and typological issues in consonant harmony / by Gunnar Olafur Hansson.<2001>
Compensatory lengthening : phonetics, phonology, diachrony / by Darya Kavitskaya.<2001>
Acoustic cues in the directionality of stop consonant confusions / by Madelaine Claire Plauche.<2001>

A usage-based model of aphasic sentence comprehension / by Susanne Gahl.<2000>
The vowels of California English before /r/, /l/, and /n/ / by Joshua Samuel Guenter.<2000>
A synchronic and diachronic functional analysis of Hittite -ma / by Michael David Meacham.<2000>

Proposal for the use of cognitive Linguistics in hupa language revitalization / by Jocelyn Coderre Ahlers.<1999>
Seeing clearly : frame semantic, Psycholinguistic, and Cross-linguistic approaches to the semantics of the English verb see / by Collin Freeman Baker.<1999>
Introduction to Qiang phonology and lexicon : synchrony and diachrony / by Jonathan Paul Evans.<1999>
Constructional grounding : the role of interpretational overlap in lexical and constructional acquisition / by Christopher Ronald Johnson.<1999>
Proto-Kra / by Weera Ostapirat.<1999>
Discourse-functional, and typological aspects of applicative constructions / by David August Peterson.<1999>
The school business : rethinking educational reform / by Nancy Yarnall Urban.<1999>

The discourse system of American lesbians and gays / by Anita Carolyn Liang.<1998>
Beyond the issues : a linguistic and conceptual study of American public discourse / by Pamela Sue Morgan.<1998>
The role of dynamic cues in speech perception, spoken word recognition, and phonological universals / by Natasha Lynn Warner.<1998>

Basque word order and disorder : principles, variation, and prospects / by Jon Aske.<1997>
Topic and discourse structure in West Greenlandic agreement constructions / by Anna Mary Sophia Berge.<1997>
Borrowed blackness : African American Vernacular English and European American youth identities / by Mayr Helen Bucholtz.<1997>
The grammaticalization of grammatical relations : a typological and historical study involving Kashaya Pomo, Old English, and Modern English / by David Charles Gamon.<1997>
Foundations of meaning : primary metaphors and primary scenes / by Joseph Edward Grady.<1997>
Lexical phonology and morphology of the Ciyao verb stem / by Armindo Saul Atelela Ngunga.<1997>
Language in the body : iconicity and metaphor in American Sign Language / by Sarah Florence Taub.<1997>

Person and deixis in Brazilian sign language / by Norine Frances Berenz.<1996>
Irish on the air : media, discourse, and minority-language development / by Colleen Marie Cotter.<1996>
Phonetics and phonology of Ikalanga : a diachronic and synchronic study / by Joyce Thambole Mogatse Mathangwane.<1996>
A constructional approach to Japanese internally headed relativization / by Kyoko Hirose Ohara.<1996>
Sign-based morphology and phonology with special attention to optimality theory / by Cemil Orhan Orgun.<1996>
Parsing below the segment in a constraint based framework / by Cheryl Cydney Zoll.<1996>

Grammatical subject and its role in the grammar of case languages / by Mirjam Fried.<1995>
Hijra/Hijrin : language and Gender identity / by Kira Anne Hall.<1995>
Cross-linguistic lexicographic databases for etymological research, with examples from Sino-Tibetan and Bantu languages / by John Brandon Lowe.<1995>
Cognition in grammar : the problem of verbal prefixation in Malay / by Hock Ann Lionel Wee.<1995>

The language of pursuit and withdrawal : a linguistic analysis of couples counseling / by Melinda Mary Givens.<1994>
Duration in moraic theory / by Kathleen Anne Hubbard.<1994>
Lexical underspecification and the syntax/semantics interface Jean-Pierre Aime Koenig.<1994>
Morphological causatives in Korean : problems in grammatical polysemy and constructional relations / by Jeong-Woon Park.<1994>
Legal meanings : A cognitive linguistic study of American legal discourse / by Richard Warren Perry.<1994>

A typological evaluation of Celtic/Hamito-Semitic syntactic parallels / Orin Gensler (1993)
Aspect, situation types and nominal reference / by Hana Filip.<1993>
Toward a grammar of aspect : the case of the English perfect construction / by Laura Adrienne Michaelis.<1993>
Runyambo verb extensions and constraints on predicate structure / by Josephat Muhozi Rugemalira.<1993>
The dynamic process of sound change / by Zhongwei Shen.<1993>
A historical-comparative study of the Tani (Mirish) branch in Tibeto- Burman / by Tianshin Jackson Sun.<1993>
A sociolinguistic description of the Peranakan Chinese of Kelantan, Malaysia / by Kok Seong Teo.<1993>
Lexical modeling in a speaker independent speech understanding system / by Charles Clayton Woosters.<1993>

Theoretical aspects of Kashaya phonology and morphology / by Eugene Lorenz Buckley III.<1992>
Animism in thought and language / by John Louis Cherry.<1992>
Argument structure constructions / by Adele Eva Goldberg.<1992>
Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of TE-linkage in Japanese / by Yoko Hasegawa.<1992>
Diachrony in clause linkage and related issues / by Toshio Ohori.<1992>

The institutionalization of galician : linguistic practice, power, and ideology in public discourse / by Celso Alvarez.<1991>
Grammatical polysemy : the systematicity of multiple meanings in grammar / by Michele Emanatian.<1991>
Functions of the verb in Tamil narration / by Susan Catherine Herring.<1991>
Restoring the voice in Yanan traditional narrative : prosody, performance and presentational form / by Herbert William Luthin.<1991>
Sound change in San Francisco English / by Birch Moonwomon.<1991>
A description of the Kutenai language / by Lawrence Richard Morgan.<1991>
The historical development of reduplication : with special reference to Indo-European / by Mary Katherine Niepokuj.<1991>
Subtle semantics : universals in the polysemy of reflective and causative constructions / by Eric William Pederson.<1991>
Generating discourses from networks using an inheritance-based grammar / by Mark Stephen Seligman.<1991>
Patterns of change in prosodic systems / by Stephen Andrew Wilson.<1991>

Conditional and concessive clauses in modern Greek : a syntactic and semantic description / by Vasiliki Nikiforidou.<1990>
Polysemy, aspect and modality in Brazilian Portuguese : the case for a cognitive explanation of grammar / by Maria-Margarida Martins Salomao<1990>

Maiden and puer : women writers and the animus / Noelle Caskey.<1989>
Lexical prosodies of Mandarin : comparative evidence from Northern Chinese dialects / by Deborah Susan Davison.<1989>
A grammar of Nigerian pidgin / by Nicholas Gregory Faraclas.<1989>
Lexical borrowing in Taiwan / by Mark Donald Hansell.<1989>
Grammar and semantics of adnominal clauses in Japanese / by Yoshiko Matsumoto.<1989>

The effects of fundamental frequency upon recall of natural, LCP and synthetic speech / by Mariscela. Amador-Hernandez.<1988>
The syntax and semantics of HAVE and its compliments / by Claudia Marlea Brugman.<1988>
Modeling English vowel durations / by Michelle Caisse.<1988>
The phonology and morphology of Kisi / by George Tucker Childs.<1988>
Manifestations of ergativity in Quiche grammar / by Thomas Walter Larsen.<1988>
A descriptive grammar of Palenque Mayan / by Martha Jane Macri.<1988>
Postlexical palatalization in English : an acoustic-phonetic study / by Margot Tamara Peet.<1988>
Topics in Tepehua grammar / by James Kenneth Watters.<1988>

Miscreant morphemes : phrasal predicates in Ugric / by Farrell Ackerman.<1987>
Interactions between speech rate and fundamental frequency in English / by Kazue Hata.<1987>
Conversational processes in television commercials / by Karen Ann Hunold.<1987>
Coexistent tone systems in Chinese dialects / by Chinfa Lien.<1987>
Topics in Northern Pomo grammar / by Mary Catherine O'Connor.<1987>
Aspects of Salinan grammar / by Katherine Turner.<1987>
The consonant system of Middle-Old Tibetan and the tonogenesis of Tibetan / by Lian Sheng Zhang.<1987>

Anaphoric and deictic reference in Israeli Hebrew / by Rutie Adler.<1986>
An analysis of situational framing mismatches / by Norine Frances Berenz.<1986>
You had to be there : the pragmatics of improvisational joking in relation to a sociolinguistic theory of conversation / by Catherine Evans Davies.<1986>
Experimental typography, 1909-1924, and the representation of language / by Johanna Ruth Drucker.<1986>
Verb concatenation in Southeast Asian languages : a cross-linguistic study / by Donald Robert Goral.<1986>
Bakweri Verb morphology / by Ann Katherine Hawkinson.<1986>
The self-reflective linguist : a case study in terminology / by Rhoda Kesselman.<1986>
Topic, focus, and the grammar of spoken French / by Knud Lambrecht.<1986>
Pragmatics as implicitness : an analysis of question particles in Solf Swedish, with implications for the study of passive clauses and the language of persuasion / by Jan-Ola Ingemar Ostman.<1986>
Body part terminology in Hebrew : a study in lexical semantics / by Miriam Rachel Leah Petruck.<1986>
Diversity and frequency of usage as reflection of social factors : the application of variable rules to the analysis of disposal in the Beijing speech community / by Robert Martin Sanders.<1986>
A grammatical sketch of Eastern Kayah (Red Karen) / by David Benedict Solnit.<1986>
Zero anaphora in Brazilian Portuguese subjects and objects : morphological and typological considerations / by Raquel Figueiredo Alessandri Teixeira.<1986>

Fundamentals of Iu Mien (Yao) grammar / by Christopher Anthony Forbes Court.<1985>
The phonetics and phonology of the timing of oral and glottal events / by John Clayton Kingston.<1985>
Ellipsis in Japanese discourse / by Shigeko Okamoto.<1985>
The Yukian language family / by Marie-Alice Schlichter.<1985>

The nouny alternative : crossing the verb-noun borderline in modern Chinese / by Ning-Ping Chan.<1984>
Japanese numeral classifiers : a syntactic, semantic, and functional profile / by Pamela Ann Downing.<1984>
Semantic structure and semantic change : a cognitive linguistic study of modality, perception, speech acts, and logical relations / by Eve Eliot Sweetser.<1984>
The nature of subjects, topics and agents : a cognitive explanation / by Jeanne Hillechiena Van Oosten.<1984>

A microanalysis of the nonmanual components of questions in American sign language / by Charlotte Lee Baker-Shenk.<1983>
A linguistic perspective on minority education : discourse analysis and early literacy / by James Phillip Collins.<1983>
A concrete approach to phonological universals / by John Hopkins Crothers.<1983>
Spontaneous joking in conversation / by Catherine Evans Davies.<1983>
Lexical representations and the semantics of complementation / by Jean Mark Gawron.<1983>
Topics in the grammar of Marwari / by David S. Magier.<1983>
A historical study of the rGyarong verb system / by Yasuhiko Nagano.<1983>
Switch reference in northern pomo / by Mary Catherine O'Connor.<1983>
Phonology and dictionary of Yavapai / by Alan William Shaterian.<1983>
The development of conjunction in later childhood / by Marilyn Neva Silva.<1983>

Cantonese sociolinguistic patterns : correlating social characteristics of speakers with phonological variables in Hong Kong Cantonese / by Robert Stuart Bauer<1982>
Cross-linguistic differences in fundamental frequency perturbation induced by voiceless unaspirated stops / by Michelle Caisse<1982>
Hemisphere dynamics in lexical access : automatic and attentional processes / by Christine Lynn Chiarello<1982>
The evolution of noun class markers in the Southern West Atlantic languages / by George Tucker Childs<1982>
A linguistic analysis of television commercials / by Linda Katherine Coleman<1982>
Coming to order : natural selection and the origin of syntax in the Madarin speaking child / by Mary Susan Erbaugh<1982>
The encoding of antonymic relationships in semantically complex verbs / by Rebecca Joyce Green<1982>
An acoustical basis for universal constraints on sound sequences / by Haruko Kawasaki.<1982>
Sex-related differences in the speech of German university lecturers / by Elisabeth D. Kuhn<1982>
Phoneticism in Maya head variant numerals / by Martha Jane Macri<1982>
A grammar of Nevome / by David Leedom Shaul.<1982>
Finite paradigm grammar : a computational analysis of icelandic inflections / by Gregory Karl Shenaut<1982>
Burmese : a grammatical sketch / by Julian Karl Wheatley<1982>

On the interpretation of Japanese reflexives / by Kaoru Akasu<1981>
Story of Over / by Claudia Marlea Brugman.<1981>
Language planning for India's health sector : language problems in the distribution of pharmaceuticals / by Bruce Reid Caron<1981>
Tzutujil grammar / by Jon Philip Dayley<1981>
The Sacapultec language / by John William DuBois<1981>
Japanese and English contrastive lexicology : the role of Japanese &quot;mimetic adverbs&quot; / by Masayoshi Hirose<1981>
The semantics of form in Arabic, in the mirror of European languages / by David Bruce Justice<1981>
Phonotactics and morphophonology in American sign language / by Mark Alan Mandel<1981>
Grammaire de la langue Haya (Nepal) / by Boyd Michailovsky<1981>
Vowel lowering in Vietnamese / by Kathy Marie Rowenchuk<1981>
Study of the Chevak dialect of central Yup'ik Eskimo / by Anthony Cabot Woodbury<1981>

The syntax of Middle Egyptian relative clauses / by Leanna Jean Gaskins<1980>
Problems of word order change in selected Indo-European languages / by Gary Brian Holland<1980>
Categorization in phonology : an experimental approach / by Jeri Juanita Jaeger<1980>
Talking to foreigners : the role of rapport / by Peggy Lenore McCurdy<1980>
Proto-Wintun kin classification : a case study in reconstruction of a complex semantic system / by Kenneth Wayne Whistler<1980>
The development of the inchoative suffix in Latin and Romance / by Andrew Strachan Allen<1980>
Un bosquejo gramatical del idioma ixil / by Glenn Thompson Ayres<1980>
The acquisition of narrative discourse : a study in Japanese / by Patricia Marie Clancy<1980>
A functional approach to the case-system in Cochabamba Quechua / by Maria Margarida Martins Salomao<1980>
Stress and salience in English : theory and practice / by Henry Swift Thompson<1980>
What people say they do with words / by Jozef Francisca Verschueren<1980>

Hindi honorifics : linguistic dimensions of social deixis in a Hindi film / by David S. Magier.<1979>
Processes and consequences of conversational style / by Deborah Frances Tannen.<1979>

Atikamekw morphology and lexicon / by Jean Pierre Beland.<1978>
Aspects of Korean diachronic phonology / by Namgui Chang.<1978>
Negotiations : language in social interaction / by Monica Sara Heller.<1978>
Phonetic universals and phonological change / by Hector Raul Javkin.<1978>
The effect of similarity in the acquisition of a foreign language / by Svata Louda.<1978>
A historical study of rGyarong initials and prefixes / by Yasuhiko Nagano.<1978>
English-Yuki vocabulary / by Marie-Alice Schlichter.<1978>

Studies in the acquisition of Mandarin phonology / by Harold Victor Clumeck.<1977>
The postposition and non-sentential locative expressions in Hungarian / by Deborah Susan Davison.<1977>
Aspects of Lakhota syntax / by Robert Detrick Van Valin, Jr.<1977>

A study of referential opacity.<1976> Author: Abbott, Barbara Kenyon, 1943-
The acquisition of Finnish inflectional morphology.<1976> Author: Argoff, Howard David.
Laryngeal behavior in speech.<1976> Author: Ewan, William Gilbert, 1943-
Comparative syntax in Austronesian.<1976> Author: Foley, William Auguste.
Phonology of a soundless language : phonological structure of the American sign language.<1976> Author: Friedman, Lynn A.
Linguistic life on the left : study of a political word-arena.<1976> Author: Justice, David Bruce.
The propagation of sound change : a case study in Chinese dialects.<1976> Author: Liao, Chiu-Chung.
The temporal frame of get and have and its contribution to the comprehension of get-causatives.<1976> Author: Rader, Margaret Ann.
The origins of Burmese creaky tone.<1976> Author: Thurgood, Graham.
Patwin folk-taxonomic structures.<1976> Author: Whisler, Kenneth Wayne.

A defensive use of English but.<1975> Author: Baker, Charlotte Lee.
The Chinese language in America : a sociolinguistic account developed within the framework of language maintenance factors.<1975> Author: Bauer, Robert S. (Robert Stuart)
Pronouns and pronominal morphology in Tibeto-Burman.<1975> Author: Bauman, James John.
A linguistic analysis of selected cansos by Bernart de Ventadorn.<1975> Author: Hansen, Mary-Louise.
Second language learning and language abilities in a non-native environment.<1975> Author: Milgrom, Shira Ita.
Some aspects of the Hindi complement system / by Jagdish Prasad Jain.<1975> Author: Sadhak, Jagdish Prasad Jain.
The abstract-concrete distinction in language.<1975> Author: Seropian, Hasmig.
Linguistic indices of schizophrenia.<1975> Author: Shamis, Sandra Lee

Tone language.<1974> Author: Hombert, Jean Marie.
Deixis in narrative discourse.<1974> Author: Rauh, Gisa.
Investigation of the role of phonological distinctive features in a production task / by Carol Ann Simpson.<1974>
The dual linguistic heritage of Afro-Americans / by Colston Richard Westbrook.<1974>

A linguistic experiment in delayed auditory feedback.<1973> Author: Baker, Donald Leroy.
The effects of aging on speech.<1973> Author: Dressler, Neil Morton.
On the semantics of space, time, and person reference in American sign language.<1973> Author: Friedman, Lynn A.
Northern Chumash and the subgrouping of the Chumash dialects.<1973> Author: Klar, Kathryn.
Stylistic syntactic variation in Berndeutsch.<1973> Author: Simpson, Carol A.
Consideration of Cantonese-English as a subdialect.<1973> Author: Ting-Toomey, Stella

A comparative study of Cantonese and Pekingese phonology.<1972> Author: Howe, Kenneth Daniel.
A comparison of English and Cantonese sound and syllable structures.<1972> Author: Jackson, Marcia Miller.
Crossover and some related problems.<1972> Author: Jacobson, Pauline I., 1947- .
Tagalog child language.<1972> Author: Oestman, Bethel Irene.
Semantic structures in English and Atsugewi.<1972> Author: Talmy, Leonard Alan

Writing as a part of language: a stratificational study.<1971> Author: Stone, James Warren

Nicobarese grammar (Car dialect)<1970> Author: Braine, Jean Critchfield
Hupa grammar.<1970> Author: Golla, Victor Karl.
Outline of a generative semantic description of Pampangan.<1970> Author: Gonzalez, Andrew Benjamin.
A Mandan dictionary / by Robert Charles Hollow, Jr.<1970>
Formal aspects of phonological description.<1970> Author: Johnson, Charles Douglas.
A linguistic analysis of poetic style.<1970> Author: Kypriotaki, Lyn Roland.
Southeastern Pomo grammar.<1970> Author: Moshinsky, Julius Barry.
Language structure, processes and HUN, a grammar of the Hungarian language.<1970> Author: Szabo, Szilard Imre.
Grammar of the Siona language, Colombia, South America.<1970> Author: Wheeler, Alva Lee.

Phonological history of Wu.<1969> Author: Ballard, William Lewis.
Phonology and morphophonemics of Yapese.<1969> Author: Hsu, Robert Wen.
A partial analysis of a variety of nonstandard Negro English.<1969> Author: McKay, June Rumery.
A grammar of Blackfoot.<1969> Author: Taylor, Allan Ross.

Yokuts grammar: Chukchansi.<1968> Author: Collord, Thomas Lee, 1923-
Ibibio grammar.<1968> Author: Kaufman, Elaine Marlowe

A morphologic grammar of the Classical Mandaic verb.<1967> Author: Malone, Joseph Lawrence.
A grammar of the Lahu language.<1967> Author: Matisoff, James A.
Konkow grammar.<1967> Author: Ultan, Russell.

The Cocopa language.<1966> Author: Crawford, James Mack, 1925-
The Eastern Pomo language.<1966> Author: McLendon, Sally Virginia.
The Shasta language.<1966> Author: Silver, Shirley Kling.

Turkish-English contrastive analysis: Turkish morphology and corresponding English structures.<1964> Author: Sebuktekin, Hikmet Ibrahim.

A grammar of the Lake Miwok language.<1963> Author: Callaghan, Catherine A.
French endocentric nominals.<1963> Author: Jenkins, Frederic Magill.
Tzeltal grammar.<1963> Author: Kaufman, Terrence, 1937-
Automatic decoding of written English.<1963> Author: Klein, Sheldon.
The Piro (Arawak) language.<1963> Author: Matteson, Esther Lavina.
Wintu grammar.<1963> Author: Pitkin, Harvey