People

Alumni

  • Ph.D.
  • 1994

Affiliation: Nigeria Bible Translation

Dissertation: Tense and aspect in Obolo grammar and discourse

  • Ph.D.
  • 2014

Affiliation: Silver Academic Editing

Dissertation: Conversations with native speakers : acquiring Japanese as a second language

  • Ph.D.
  • 2013
Dissertation: Prosody and Grammar in Kabardian
 
  • Ph.D.
  • 2016

Affiliation: Brown University

Dissertation: Communicative care across borders: Language, materiality, and affect in transnational family life

  • Ph.D.
  • 2022

Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Dissertation: Confronting challenges in historical linguistics: Quantitative approaches to dialect area subgrouping and tone change in Mixtec

  • Ph.D.
  • 2011

Affiliation: University of Helsinki

Dissertation: Yuki grammar in its areal context with sketches of Huchnom and Coast Yuki

  • Ph.D.
  • 1999

Dissertation: Towards a discourse model of prosodic structure: A prosodic and syntactic analysis of declination in Japanese

  • Ph.D.
  • 2014

Affiliation: Kumon Academy; University of Calirfornia, Santa Barbara

Dissertation: Effects of nonlinguistic context on language production

  • Ph.D.
  • 2007

Affiliation: SIL International

Dissertation: A Grammar of Dongwan Tibetan

  • Ph.D.
  • 2020

Affiliation: California State University, Long Beach

Dissertation: Language Ideology, Linguistic Differentiation, and Language Maintenance in the California Mixtec Diaspora

  • Ph.D.
  • 2024

Language revitalization; minoritized languages; endangered languages; language documentation; Languages of French Polynesia; Native American Languages; Romance Languages; Germanic Languages (Frisian); Basque; Phonology; Phonetic Variation; Minoritized Languages and (Social) Media; Minoritized Language Translation.

Dissertation: Community-informed documentary linguistics and community-led participatory research: describing Sà'án Sàvǐ ñà ñuù Xnúvíkó and analyzing speakers’ insights on intelligibility with Tlahuapan Mixtec. 

Affiliation: University of Oregon

  • South Hall 4431K
  • Ph.D.
  • 2011

Affiliation: University of Hawai'i

Dissertation: Discourse, landscape, and directional reference in Ahtna

  • Ph.D.
  • 2018

Affiliation: University of Virginia

Dissertation: Realis and irrealis: Chini verb morphology, clause chaining, and discourse

  • Ph.D.
  • 2007

Affliation: Carpinteria Unified School District

Dissertation: Contextual constraints on interaction: Soaring talk

  • Ph.D.
  • 2021

Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles 

Dissertation: Competing Discourse of Diversity and Inclusion: Institutional Rhetoric and Graduate Student Narratives at Two Minority Serving Institutions

  • Ph.D.
  • 2007

Affiliation: University of California, Santa Barbara

Dissertation: Hiroshima stories: The construction of collective memorialization in survivors' narratives

  • Ph.D.
  • 2009

Affiliation: Oklahoma State University

Dissertation: Reconstructing stress in Proto-Tibetan: A study in historical comparative acoustics

  • Ph. D.
  • 2023

Language documentation, description and revitalization; typology; complex adaptive systems; emergent grammar; modality/modal-evidential systems; voice; argument-marking systems; Austronesian/Formosan linguistics; Chinese linguistics

  • South Hall 5431E
  • Ph.D.
  • 1998

Affiliation: Amazon

Dissertation: Computing representations of the structure of written discourse

  • Ph.D.
  • 2022

Affiliation: Rice University

Dissertation: Postcards from the syllable edge: sonority and articulatory timing in complex onsets in Georgian

  • Ph.D.
  • 2015

Affiliation: University of Oregon

Dissertation: A reconstruction of Proto-Sogeram: Phonology, lexicon, and morphosyntax 

 
  • Ph.D.
  • 2015

Affiliation: San José State University

Dissertation: A functional grammar of Khatso

  • Ph.D.
  • 2024

Indigenous languages of the Americas; language documentation; language revitalization; morphosyntax; spatial semantics; localist semantics; Na-Dene; Tlingit; Cariban languages; languages of Oregon; languages of California; languages of Washington

Dissertation: A Reference Grammar of miluk tɬiis: tɬə miluk tɬiis buuqw

  • Ph.D.
  • 2000

Affiliation: Rice University

Dissertation: Complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation: A discourse-functional perspective

  • Ph.D.
  • 1999

Affiliation: University of Melbourne

Dissertation: The clause in Cirebon Javanese conversation

  • Ph. D.
  • 2023

Caribbean Spanish, dialectology, emoji use & interpretation, language contact & change, sociocultural linguistics, Spanglish, and virtual language

  • South Hall 3607
  • Ph.D.
  • 1997

Dissertation: A Grammatical Overview of Santa Mongolian

  • Ph.D.
  • 1997

Affiliation: San Diego State University

Dissertation: Maintenance of ways of speaking in a community undergoing language shift: Language socialization in a Navajo preschool

  • Ph.D.
  • 2002

Affiliation: M*Modal

Dissertation: Sto. Domingo Bikol verbal portmanteau morphemes: Transitivity in conversation

  • Ph.D.
  • 2021

Affiliation: College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University

Dissertation: Decolonial Vitalities: Kodiak Alutiiq Language Revitalization as Cultural Reclamation

  • Ph.D.
  • 1999

Affiliation: Museo Paraense Emilio Goeldi

Dissertation: A grammar of Karo, Tupi (Brazil)

  • Ph.D.
  • 2008

Affiliation: Linguistic Data Consortium

Dissertation: The minority language and the cosmopolitan speaker: Ideologies of Irish language learners

  • Ph.D.
  • 2021

Affiliation: Harvard University 

Dissertation: Toward a multisensorial semiotic approach in linguistics: Embodied affect and mediatization in transnational Korean popular culture

  • Ph.D.
  • 2008

Affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social

Dissertation: Borrowing and Grammaticalization in Sierra Popoluca: The Influence of Nahuatl and Spanish

  • Ph.D.
  • 2022

Affiliation: Yale University

Dissertation: Participatory Design in Digital Language Documentation: A Web Platform Approach

  • Ph.D.
  • 2008

Affiliation: Corban University

Dissertation: Directives in Lingala: Participation and subjectivity in a Congolese women's church group

  • Ph.D.
  • 1997

Affiliation: University of Turku

Dissertation: When discourse becomes syntax: Noun phrases and clauses as emergent syntactic units in Finnish conversational discourse

  • Ph.D.
  • 2012

Affiliation: California State University, Fullerton 

Dissertation: A pedagogical grammar of Ventureño Chumash: Implementing grammatical theory in grammar writing

  • Ph.D.
  • 2021

Affiliation: University of Alberta 

Dissertation: Lexical polyfunctionality in discourse: a quantitative corpus-based approach

  • Ph.D.
  • 2003

Affiliation: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Dissertation: Manange tone: Scenarios of retention and loss in two communities

  • Ph.D.
  • 2008

Affiliation: SIL International

Dissertation: Aspect and aspectual interfaces in South Conchucos Quechua: The emergence of grammatical systems

  • Ph.D.
  • 2007

Affiliation: SIL International

Dissertation: Past tense forms and their functions in South Conchucos Quechua:  time, evidentiality, discourse structure and affect

  • Ph.D.
  • 2000

Affiliation: University of Hawai'i at M?noa

Dissertation: The phonology and morphology of the Tanacross Athabaskan language

  • Ph.D.
  • 2023
Phonetics; speech production and perception; phonetics-prosody interface; prosodic structure; articulatory phonology; L2 Phonetics
 
Dissertation: Functions of prosodic boundaries in an edge-prominence language: Marking focus and phrasing in Seoul Korean
  • Ph.D.
  • 2007

Affiliation: California State University, San Bernardino 

Dissertation: Chimariko in typological and areal perspective

  • Ph.D.
  • 2000

Affiliation: University of Hong Kong

Dissertation: Talk, interaction and cultural persistence: Constituting Korean American discourse in a meeting context

  • Ph.D.
  • 1998

Affiliation: University of Oulu

Dissertation: The marking and interactional functions of epistemic stance in American English conversational discourse

  • Ph.D.
  • 2003

Affiliation: University of Melbourne

Dissertation: The emergence of argument structure from gesture to speech

  • Ph.D.
  • 2010

Affiliation: University of York

Dissertation: Epistemics and action formation in Mandarin Chinese

  • Ph.D.
  • 1999

Affiliation: Microsoft

Dissertation: Analysis of terminal contours in Welsh intonation

  • Ph.D.
  • 1998

Affiliation: Santa Barbara City College

Dissertation: An ecological reference grammar of Sölring North Frisian

Frisian research archive

  • Ph.D.
  • 1995

Affiliation: University of Helsinki

Dissertation: The interactional dynamics of demonstratives: The emergence of se as a definite article in spoken Finnish

  • Ph.D.
  • 2010

Affiliation: University of Mary Washington 

Dissertation: Linguistic citizenship and ideologies of Americanness in a U.S. naturalization class

  • Ph.D.
  • 2018

Affiliation: University of Zürich

Dissertation: The syntactic bits of nouns: How prior syntactic distributions affect comprehension, production, and acquisition

  • Ph.D.
  • 2009

Affiliation: Peking University

Dissertation: Units in Zhuokeji rGyalrong discourse: Prosody and grammar

  • Ph.D.
  • 2020

Affiliation: Santa Barbara City College

Dissertation: Here Now: Latinx Youth Brokers and the Politics and Possibilities of Ultratranslation

  • Ph. D.
  • 2019

Affiliation: Macalester College

Dissertation: Towards an Environmental Linguistics: An analysis of sociolinguistic style and discourses of conservation among rural American hunters and fishers

  • Ph.D.
  • 2018

Affiliation: University of Victoria

Dissertation: The elaboration of verbal structure: Wendat (Huron) verb morphology

 
  • Ph.D.
  • 2009

Affiliation: Kyushu University, Japan

Dissertation: The semi-formulaic nature of balinese sociopolitical discourse

  • Ph.D.
  • 1999

Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Dissertation: Linguistic reflections of social structure and culture: A comparison of Japanese and American cooking class genres

  • Ph.D.
  • 2016

Affiliation: University of Hawai'i

Dissertation: Symmetrical voice constructions in Besemah: A usage-based approach

  • Ph.D.
  • 2013

 

Dissertation: Voice and valency in San Luis Potosi Huasteco

  • Ph. D.
  • 2023

Sociocultural Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Political Discourse; African American Language and Culture; Educational Linguistics, Linguistics Anthropology

  • Ph. D.
  • 1997

Affiliation: Tokyo Institute of Foreign Studies

Dissertation: Discourse-pragmatic dynamism in Nuu-cha-nulth (Nootka) morphosyntax

  • Ph.D.
  • 2011

Affiliation: University of California, Santa Barbara

Dissertation: Tone in Ekegusii

  • C.Phil.
  • 2015

Affiliation: Akamai Technologies

 

  • Ph.D.
  • 1997

Affiliation: Rice University

Dissertation: The effect of social information on the phonetic perception of sociolinguistic variables

  • Ph.D.
  • 2004

Affiliation: Radboud University Nijmegen

Dissertation: Motion, transfer, and transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal

  • Ph.D.
  • 2017

Dissertation: Transcending homelessness: Religious neoliberalism and the discursive negotiation of agency in a faith-based shelter

  • Ph.D.
  • 2022

Dissertation: Temporal adverbial clauses in the languages of the world: Clause-linking strategies

  • Ph.D.
  • 1996

Affiliation: University of Alberta

Dissertation: Information flow and grammatical structure in Barbareno Chumash

  • Ph.D.
  • 2005

Affiliation: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social 

Dissertation: Resonance, represented discourse and joking in Mexican Spanish conversation

  • Ph.D.
  • 2019

Affiliation: NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Davis

Dissertation: Many ways to sound Diné: Linguistic variation in Navajo.

  • Ph.D.
  • 2004

Affiliation: National University of Singapore

Dissertation: Globalization, language, and social order: Ideologies of English in South Korea

  • Ph.D.
  • 2024

Dissertation: Diaspora linguistics: Mixtec as a heritage language among Nà Sàjvi multilinguals in California

  • Ph.D.
  • 2022

Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh

Dissertation: Syntactic distributional information in the lexicon: Systematicity, functional pressures, and grammatical implications

  • Ph.D.
  • 2014

Affiliation: University of British Columbia

Dissertation: A grammar of space in
Kwak´wala

  • Ph.D.
  • 1997

Dissertation: A reference grammar of Ilocano

  • Ph.D.
  • 2004

Affiliation: SIL International

Dissertation: Patternings of vocalic sequences in the world's languages

  • Ph.D.
  • 2008

Affiliation: The Professor Is In

Dissertation: Historical conflict in present-day interaction: Discursive social action and decision-making for the future of the Chehalis River watershed

  • Ph.D.
  • 2005

Affiliation: Meiji University

Dissertation: Personal pronouns and argument structure: Discourse frequency, diachrony and typology

  • Ph.D.
  • 2004

Affiliation: University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Dissertation: Morality in grammar and discourse: Stance-taking and the negotiation of moral personhood in Sakapultek (Mayan) wedding counsels

  • Ph.D.
  • 2016

Dissertation: Guca: An account of the phonetics, phonotactics, and lexical suffixes of a Kwak'wala Dialect

  • Ph.D.
  • 2016

Dissertation: The role of intonation units in memory for spoken English

  • Ph.D.
  • 2021

Affiliation: Smithsonian Institute

Dissertation: The Verbal Morphology of Yonghe Qiang: an Eastern Himalayan Language

  • Ph.D.
  • 1998

Affiliation: SIL International 

Dissertation: Minhe Mangghuer: A mixed language of the inner-Asian frontier

  • Ph.D.
  • 2018

Affiliation: Macalester College

Dissertation: Musicolinguistics: New methodologies for integrating musical and linguistic data 

  • Ph.D.
  • 1999

Affiliation: Keio University

Dissertation: Grammaticization in Japanese: A study of pragmatic particle-ization

  • Ph.D.
  • 2001

Affiliation: University of Tsukuba

Dissertation: Sequence management in Japanese child-adult interactions

  • Ph.D.
  • 2004

Affiliation: Japan Women's University

Dissertation: The interactional co-construction of play in Japanese conversation

  • Ph.D.
  • 2012

Affiliation: University of the Ryukyus

Dissertation: The Tonology of Itoman Okinawan: A phonological analysis of the nominal tone system

  • Ph.D.
  • 1993

Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles

Dissertation: Units in Mandarin: Discourse and grammar

  • Ph.D.
  • 2023

Discourse and grammar; conversation and grammar; corpus linguistics; corpus design; transcription; Intonation Units; direct reported speech; complaints; Kazakh; Italian

  • Ph. D.
  • 2023

phonetics and phonology; Optimality Theory; Japanese; Kansai dialect; prosody; pitch accent; second language acquisition

  • Ph.D.
  • 2024

Language documentation, description, and revitalization, applied linguistics, sociocultural linguistics, language ideologies, language and identity, language acquisition, community based linguistics, Native American languages, in particular Zuni

  • Ph.D.
  • 2006

Affiliation: The API Guys

Dissertation: Projection in Mandarin Chinese conversation: Grammar and social interaction in question-answer sequences

  • Ph.D.
  • 2017

Affiliation: Boise State University

Dissertation: “Straight-ish”: Constrained agency and the linguistic constructions of sexual identities, desires, and practices among men seeking men

  • Ph.D.
  • 2024

Language documentation; Languages of Siberia; Yukaghir; Morphosyntax; Corpus Linguistics; Computational Methods; Language Maintenance; Games for Language Learning

Dissertation: Machine Learning for Language Description: Kolyma Yukaghir through supervised and unsupervised learning models

  • Ph.D.
  • 2015

Affiliation: Invitae

Dissertation: The distributional learning of multi-word expressions : A computational approach

  • Ph.D.
  • 2012

Affiliation: San Joaquin Delta College

Dissertation: A grammar of Southern Pomo, an indigenous language of California

  • Ph.D.
  • 2018

Affiliation: University of California, Santa Barbara

Dissertation: Sex and Faith in Dialogue: Interdiscusivity and Academic Activism in Baptist communities

  • Ph.D.
  • 2001

Dissertation: Adverbial clauses in Barbareño Chumash narrative discourse

  • Ph.D.
  • 2023

Language, gender, and sexuality; language and bisexuality; language and power; language, perception, cognition, and memory; Japanese linguistics; Ryukyuan languages; Ozark English

Dissertation: The Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Bisexuality in Language and Sexuality Research

  • Ph.D.
  • 2020

Dissertation: A Grammar of Abawiri, a Lakes Plain Language of Papua, Indonesia