| Year |
Student |
Thesis Title |
Advisor |
| 2009 |
Lindsey Allen |
Iconicity in the Perception of Speech Rhythm |
Hibbard |
| 2009 |
Dustin Bowers |
Ojibwe Gender and Derivation: A Final Analysis |
Sabbagh |
| 2009 |
Peter Farago |
To Have and Have Not: Unifying Possession in the Sentential and Nominal Domains |
Sabbagh |
| 2009 |
Irina Gladkova |
In Her Image: Iconic Modalities Driving Law, Gender, and Cultural Perceptions of Rape |
Hibbard |
| 2009 |
Sarah Gould |
On the Hive Mind: Explorations in Social Semiotics |
Hibbard |
| 2009 |
Wes Hilton |
The Status of Remote Past BIN in Standard American English |
Becker |
| 2009 |
Katherine Judson |
The Legal Performative, Race, and the Modern Civil Rights Movement: A Study of the Battle Over Semiotic Production of Identity |
Sabbagh |
| 2009 |
Molly Lewis |
A Parallel Formulation of Whorfian and Neo-Whorfian Linguistic Relativity |
Hibbard |
| 2009 |
Will Pickett |
Language and the ‘White Horse’: Two Interpretations of the ‘Gongsun Longzi’ |
Becker |
| 2009 |
Aviva Raskin |
Japanese Women’s Language as a Covert Standard: A Case Study on the Speech of the Gothic-Lolita |
Sabbagh |
| 2008 |
Roslyn Burns |
Gender Stability in Germanic Languages: An Investigation of Plautdietsch in North America and Ingvaeonic Languages |
Pearson |
| 2008 |
Jessica Love-Nichols |
“Who Does He Think He’s Kidding?”: A Linguistic Analysis of John Kerry’s Perceived Inauthenticity in the 2004 Presidential Election |
Hibbard |
| 2008 |
Sarah Mitteldorf |
Where to Find the Missing: Ellipsis, Syntax, Semantics and Context |
Pearson |
| 2008 |
Eavan Moore |
English and Identity: Native Language, Global Language |
Pearson |
| 2008 |
Aurora Paulsen |
Resurrecting the Dead: Revisiting Benjamin Lee Whorf's Principle of Linguistic Relativity |
Hibbard |
| 2008 |
Erin Price |
Evidentiality in Quechua : A Systemic Functional Analysis |
Pearson, Hibbard |
| 2008 |
Ke Angie Wang |
The Brave and the Boldface: A Study of Prosody in Comic Books |
Hibbard |
| 2008 |
Margarett Waterbury |
Talk To Me: A Bakhtinian Approach to Addressivity and Dialogism in Political Speech |
Hibbard |
| 2007 |
Sahar Baharloo |
Words In Space: Is Word a Formal Unit in American Sign Language? |
Pearson |
| 2007 |
Susan Barlow |
An Alignment Analysis of High Tone Spreading in Shona |
Pearson |
| 2007 |
Justin Holguín |
The Status of Ergative Case in Basque: A Minimalist Approach |
Pearson |
| 2007 |
Meg Biser |
“A Mississippi Girl Don't Change Her Ways”: A Linguistic Approach to the Construction of Authenticity in Country Music |
Hibbard |
| 2007 |
Nick Callaway |
Judeo-Spanish and the Success of the Standard: A Case Study of Language Ideology's Role in Language Shift |
Hibbard |
| 2007 |
David Freas |
Imitation Thesis |
Hibbard |
| 2006 |
Jesse Hallett |
Lexical Semantics for Natural Language Processing |
Pearson |
| 2006 |
Eliah Hecht |
The Syntax and Semantics of Focuser “Like” |
Pearson |
| 2006 |
Robert Daly |
Language Revitalization and its Socio-Cultural Context: Chinook Jargon |
Hibbard |
| 2006 |
Leah Johnston |
Sheng and the City |
Hibbard |
| 2006 |
Alex Wallace |
The Linguistic Construction of Events and the Production of Knowledge: Reported speech and Translation in French Newspaper Reports |
Hibbard |
| 2006 |
Aurora Davis |
The Function of -mIş in Turkish |
Pearson |
| 2005 |
Roshni Gohil |
Possessive Constructions and the Morphology and Syntax of Noun Phrases in Turkish |
Pearson |
| 2005 |
Laura Jean Long |
Non-configurational Word Order in Russian |
Pearson |
| 2005 |
Kate Paddock |
The Prosodic Structure of Free Verse, Focusing on the Poetry of William Carlos Williams |
Pearson |
| 2005 |
Annelise Uhlig |
Language Acquisition, Creolization, and the Language Evolution Debate: A Critique of Derek Bickerton's “Proto-language” Hypothesis |
Pearson |
| 2005 |
Kirill Shklovsky |
Person Marking in Petalcingo Tzeltal |
Haviland |
| 2005 |
Meg Mitchell |
The Generation of Referring Expressions in Natural Language Processing |
Haviland |
| 2005 |
Heather Campbell |
Jokoa eta Jolas: Policy Instillation versus Playful Improvisation in the Basque Language Movement |
Haviland |
| 2005 |
Mark Evans |
Rhythmic Asymmetry |
Haviland |
| 2004 |
Rene Acosta |
Case Conflation and Case Attrition in Indo-European Languages |
Pearson |
| 2004 |
Hannah Lynn |
Wh-questions in American Sign Language |
Pearson |
| 2004 |
Jessica Coon |
Roots and Words in Chol (Mayan): A Distributed Morphology Approach |
Aygen |
| 2004 |
Laurel Goldstein |
A Presentist Semantics for Tense |
Aygen, Hovda |
| 2004 |
Hester Serebrin |
Topic, Focus, and Object-Verb Order in Mandarin |
Pearson |
| 2004 |
Sarah Coffer |
To 'He' or not to 'He': The Linguistic and Social Implications of Gendered Pronouns in English |
Aygen |
| 2003 |
Jaiva Larsen |
Merge, Move, and Mate: Is Syntax an Evolutionary Epiphenomenon? |
Pearson |
| 2003 |
Nicholas Thornton |
Performative Differences of Gender in the Prosody of American English Speech |
Pearson |
| 2003 |
Richard von Duerckheim |
Information Structure in Egyptian Arabic |
Pearson |
| 2003 |
Chan MacDonald |
Language Planning and Language Policy: Socio-cultural Integration or Hegemony? The Case(s) of the Soviet Union |
Haviland |
| 2003 |
Natasha Milenkaya |
Stories and Storytellings |
Haviland |
| 2003 |
Natalie Tschechaniuk |
American Sign Language and Language Status: An Examination of the Conflict |
Haviland |
| 2002 |
Chris Flink |
A'unaS a't'sexsa nemi' a't'ssiin: Some Topics in the Inflectional Morphology of Sahaptin and Some Topics in Linguistics |
Pearson |
| 2002 |
Andrew Wallace |
Indexicality and Syntactic Register Variation in English |
Pearson |
