Students

Current PhD students:

Scott Spicer

Former PhD students:

Michael Everdell (Fall 2023) - Research Affiliate, The University of Texas at Austin. 

Thesis: Arguments and adjuncts in O'dam: language-specific realization of a cross-linguistic distinction

Cristian R Juárez (Summer 2023; Co-Advised with Patience Epps) - Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Linguistics and Cultural Evolution,  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

Thesis: A typology of valence-changing mechanisms and related verb modifications in Northern Chaco Mocoví (Guaycuruan, Argentina)

Qianping Gu (Spring 2020) - Assistant Professor, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Thesis: Noun Incorporation and Resultative Verb Compounding in Mandarin Chinese

Maria del Mar Bassa Vanrell (Summer 2017; with Gennaro Chierchia as Co-Advisor) - Visiting Professor, Department of Spanish, Modern, and Classical Language, Universitat de les Illes Balears

Thesis:  Scope, Scalarity, and Polarity in Aspectual Marking: The case of English 'until' and Spanish 'hasta'

Zach Childers (Summer 2016; Co-Advised with Stephen Wechsler) - Linguistic Engineer, NarrativeDx

Thesis: "Cause” and Affect: Evaluative and emotive parameters of meaning among the periphrastic causative verbs in English

Kyle Jerro (Spring 2016) - Senior Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex

Thesis: The Syntax and Semantics of Applicative Morphology in Bantu

Ashwini Ganeshan (Spanish and Portuguese, Summer 2015; Co-Advised with Chiyo Nishida) - Conversational Designer, LivePerson

Thesis: Case Marking in Spanish Reverse Psychological verbs: A Lexical Semantic Perspective

Juwon Lee (Summer 2015; With Stephen Wechsler as Co-Advisor) - Assistant Professor, Department of English Education, Jeonju University

Thesis: An Intention-based Account of Accomplishments in Korean

Nyoman Udayana (Summer 2013; Co-Advised with Stephen Wechsler) - Professor of Linguistics, Department of English, Udayana University

Thesis: Voice and Reflexives in Balinese

Éva Kardos (Fall 2012; Co-Advised with Gergely Pethö; University of Debrechen, Hungary) - Senior Lecturer, Department of English Linguistics, University of Debrecen

Thesis: Toward a Scalar Semantic Analysis of Telicity in Hungarian