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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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