Dissertations in Linguistics Completed at UCSC
The following is a list of Dissertations completed at the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz since the inception of the Graduate Program. Committees which oversaw the production of these works are listed, with chairs in emphasized font. For more information on these alumni, see their websites, or the websites of their advisors (located under the Faculty page).
Peter Alrenga, 2007
Title: Dimensionality in the Semantics of Comparatives
Committee: Donka Farkas, Christopher Kennedy, William A. Ladusaw, James McCloskey
Chris Barker, 1991
Title: Possessive Descriptions
Committee: William A. Ladusaw, Peter Lasersohn, James McCloskey
Cheryl Black, 1994
Title: Quiegolani Zapotec Syntax
Committee: Sandra Chung, Jorge Hankamer, William A. Ladusaw
H. Andrew Black, 1993
Title: Constraint-Ranked Derivation: A Serial Approach to Optimization
Committee: Jorge Hankamer, Junko Ito, Armin Mester
Ryan Bush, 2000
Title: A Typology of Focal Categories
Committee: Daniel Buering, Donka Farkas, William A. Ladusaw
Cathal Doherty, 1993
Title: Clauses Without 'That': The Case for Bare Sentential Complementation in English
Committee: Sandra Chung, Donka Farkas, William A. Ladusaw, James McCloskey
Ascander Dost, 2007
Title: Linearization, Square Pegs, and Round Holes
Committee: Judith Aissen, Sandra Chung, Geoffrey K. Pullum
Theodore Fernald, 1994
Title: On the Nonuniformity of the Individual- and Stage-Level Effects
Committee: Donka Farkas, William A. Ladusaw, Geoffrey K. Pullum
Christine Gunlogson, 2001
Title: True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English
Committee: Daniel Buering, Donka Farkas, William A. Ladusaw, Geoffrey K. Pullum
Rodrigo Gutierrez-Bravo, 2002
Title: Structural Markedness and Syntactic Structure: A Study of Word Order and the Left Periphery in Mexican Spanish
Committee: Judith Aissen, Donka Farkas, James McCloskey
Dylan Herrick, 2003
Title: An Acoustic Analysis of Phonological Vowel Reduction in Six Varieties of Catalan
Committee: Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Jaye Padgett
Anya Lunden, 2006
Title: Weight, Final Lengthening and Stress: A Phonetic and Phonological Case Study of Norwegian
Committee: Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Jaye Padgett
James Isaacs, 2007
Title: Supposition in Discourse
Committee: Donka Farkas, William A. Ladusaw, James McCloskey
Michael Johnston, 1994
Title: The Semantics of Adverbial Adjuncts
Committee: Sandra Chung, Donka Farkas, William A. Ladusaw, Geoffrey K. Pullum
Aaron Kaplan, 2008
Title: Noniterativity is an Emergent Property of Grammar
Committee: Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Jaye Padgett
Daniel Karvonen, 2005
Title: Word Prosody in Finnish
Committee: Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Jaye Padgett
Motoko Katayama, 1998
Title: Optimality Theory and Japanese Loanword Phonology
Committee: Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Jaye Padgett
Christopher Kennedy, 1997
Title: Projecting the Adjective: The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison
Committee: Sandra Chung, Donka Farkas, William A. Ladusaw
Kurisu Kazutaka, 2001
Title: The Phonology of Morpheme Realization
Committee: Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Jaye Padgett
Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, 2005
Title: Beyond Coherence: The Syntax of Opacity in German
Committee: Judith Aissen, Sandra Chung, Jorge Hankamer, James McCloskey
Emily Manetta, 2006
Title: Peripheries in Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu
Committee: Judith Aissen, Sandra Chung, James McCloskey
Louise McNally, 1992
Title: An Interpretation for the English Existential Construction
Committee: Sandra Chung, Donka Farkas, William A. Ladusaw
Jason Merchant, 1999
Title: The Syntax of Silence: Sluicing, Islands, and Identity in Ellipsis
Committee: Sandra Chung, William A. Ladusaw, James McCloskey
Line Mikkelsen, 2004
Title: Specifying Who: On the Structure, Meaning, and Use of Specificational Copular Clauses
Committee: Judith Aissen, Donka Farkas, William A. Ladusaw, James McCloskey
John Moore, 1991
Title: Reduced Constructions in Spanish
Committee: Judith Aissen, Sandra Chung, James McCloskey
Brian O'Herin, 1995
Title: Case and Agreement in Abaza
Committee: Judith Aissen, Jorge Hankamer, James McCloskey, Johanna Nichols
Eric Potsdam, 1996
Title: Syntactic Issues in the English Imperative
Committee: Judith Aissen, Donka Farkas, James McCloskey
Christopher Potts, 2003
Title: The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
Committee: William A. Ladusaw, James McCloskey, Geoffrey K. Pullum
Kyle Rawlins, 2008
Title: Concession, Conditionals, and Free Choice
Committee: Sandra Chung, Donka Farkas, William A. Ladusaw
Nathan Sanders, 2003
Title: Opacity and Sound Change in the Polish Lexicon
Committee: Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Jaye Padgett
Robin Schafer, 1994
Title: Nonfinite Predicate Initial Constructions in Breton
Committee: Sandra Chung, Gildas Hamel, James McCloskey, Armin Mester
Philip Spaelti, 1997
Title: Dimensions of Variation in Multi-pattern Reduplication
Committee: Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Jaye Padgett
Anne Sturgeon, 2006
Title: The Syntax and Pragmatics of Contrastive Topic in Czech
Committee: Judith Aissen, Donka Farkas, Eva Hajicova, James McCloskey
Peter Svenonius, 1994
Title: Dependent Nexus: Small Clauses in English and the Scandinavian Languages
Committee: William A. Ladusaw, James McCloskey, Geoffrey K. Pullum
Adam Panter Ussishkin, 2000
Title: The Emergence of Fixed Prosody
Committee: Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Jaye Padgett
Rachel Walker, 1998
Title: Nasalization, Neutral Segments, and Opacity Effects
Committee: Junko Ito, Armin Mester, Jaye Padgett
Andy Wedel, 2004
Title: Self-organization and Categorical Behavior in Phonology
Committee: Adam Albright, Armin Mester, Jaye Padgett
Lynsey Wolter, 2006
Title: That's That: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Demonstrative Noun Phrases
Committee: Donka Farkas, William A. Ladusaw, James McCloskey
Florence Woo, 2007
Title: Prepositional Predicates in Nuu-chah-nulth
Committee: Judith Aissen, Sandra Chung, James McCloskey