PhD STUDENTS*
University of Michigan
2013 – Thim Chou, Unvalued interpretable features and topic A movement in Chinese Raising Modal Constructions
2012 – David Medeiros, Embedded Ancient Greek Imperatives, A feature Transfer Analysis; Hawaiian VP remnant movement: a cyclic Linearization
2012 – Jae-Young Shim, External Merge by Phase”
2012 – Sujeewa Hettiarachchi, On Sinhala Involitives and Case Marking
2010 – *Konstantia Kapetangianni (co-supervised with Prof. Acrisio Pires) The Syntax and Acquisition of Control
2010 – *Miki Obata, Root Successive Cyclic and Feature-Splitting Internal Merge: Implications for Feature Inheritance and Transfer (co-supervised with Prof. Noam Chomsky, MIT)
2008 – Lillian Chen (Department of Psychology, cognate member)
2008 – *Gerardo Fernandez-Salgueiro, On the Structure of Coordination: Applying Current Ideas to Long-standing Puzzles
2008 – Timothy Sundell, Title TBA; (Department of Philosophy; cognate member)
2007 – Christopher Becker, A Unified Approach to Clausal and Nominal Agreement in Russian
2007 – *Catherine Fortin, Indonesian Ellipsis: Ellipsis in the Sentential Domain and its Implications for Clause Structure
2007 – Michael Marlo, The Verbal Tonology of Three Luyia Languages (committee member)
2006 – *Hamid Ouali, Unifying Agreement Relations: A Minimalist Analysis of Berber (co-supervised with Prof. A. Pires)
2005 – Andrea Stiasny, The Acquisition of Clitics in Croatian and Spanish and its Implications for Syntactic Theory
2004 – Bruce Lacey, Cognitive Content and Communication (Department of Philosophy; cognate member)
2002 – *Annemarie Toebosch, Animacy and The Syntax of Object Clitics (co-supervised with Professor C. Tortora)
2002 – *Rose Letsholo, Syntactic Domains in iKalanga (co-supervised with Prof. M. Hale)
2002 – Greg M. Sax, Toward a Theory of High-Grade Representation: A Taxonomy of Content-Types (Department of Philosophy; cognate member)
Harvard University
1997 – Marlyse Baptista, The Morphosyntax of Verbs in Capeverdean Creole
1997 – John O’Neil, Means of Control: Deriving the Properties of Control Theory in the Minimalist Program
1997 – *Erich Groat, A Derivational Program for Syntactic Theory (co-supervised with Prof. N. Chomsky, MIT)
1997 – *Youngjun Jang, A Minimalist Analysis of Expletives
1996 – Dianne Jonas, Clause Structure and Verb Syntax in Scandinavian and English
1996 – Soo-Yeon Kim, Optionality: The Interaction of Structural and Non-Structural Constraints on Scrambling and Binding
1996 – *K. Scott Ferguson, A Feature-Relativized Shortest Move Requirement
1996 – *Geoffrey Poole, Transformations Across Components (co-supervised with Prof. N. Chomsky, MIT)
1994 – *Hisatsugu Kitahara, Target-a: A Unified Theory of Movement and Structure Building (co-supervised with Prof. N. Chomsky, MIT).
1993 – Rebecca Klein Kennedy, Reference and Focus in English
1991 – Tomiko Narahara, Nominal Categories and Binding Theory
1990 – Young-joo Kim, The Syntax and Semantics of Korean Case: The Interaction Between Lexical and Syntactic Levels of Representation
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESIS STUDENTS
University of Michigan
2007 – David Kush, Compound Interest; Applying A serialization Phrase Struture to Hindi verbal Compounds.Graduated with Highest honors. Received Post-Baccalaureate Bagette Fellowship, University of Maryland, Linguistics department.
2004 – Keli Rulf, The Syntax, Semantics and Early Acquisition of ‘one’; Winner of the Linguistic Department’s Outstanding Achievement Award
2004 – Kate Golski, The Phono-syntactic Interface; Winner of the Matthew Alexander award for outstanding honors thesis in Linguistics
2001 – Avram Derrow, The Theoretical Manifestation of Grammaticality; Winner of The University of Maryland Linguistics Department’s National Undergraduate Essay Competition; paper published in University of Maryland Working Papers, Volume 11 (2001)
2001 – Gabriel Williams, Verb Movement in French and English; Graduated with Highest Honors in Linguistics
2001 – Justin Fitzpatrick, Movement Locality in a Derivational Theory; Winner of the Matthew Alexander award for outstanding honors thesis in Linguistics; recipient of NSF pre-doctoral fellowship grant (2001); graduated with Highest Honors in Linguistics; revised version of thesis published in Linguistic Inquiry
2000 – Jon Gajewski, The Syntax and Semantics of Complete-list Questions In a Non-Standard Variety of English and Non-Cyclic Adjunction (co-supervised with Prof. C. Tortora); Winner of the Linguistics Program award for outstanding research achievement for an undergraduate; part of thesis published in Linguistic Inquiry (2001); received NSF pre-doctoral fellowship grant (2000)
2000 – Aaron Stark, The Syntax of Vietnamese “Submissive” Passives; Winner of the Mathew Alexander award (2000) for outstanding honors thesis in Linguistics; graduated with Highest Honors in Linguistics
2000 – Monica Takagi, Controlled and Arbitrarily Interpreted PRO
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESIS SECOND READER
2011 – Emily Coppess (A. Pires , supervisor)
2007 – Edward Cormany (A. Pires, supervisor)
2006 – Charles Crissman, (A. Pires, supervisor) Incorporating Reference Time into a Binding Approach to Sequence of Tense; Named the Linguistics Department’s Outstanding Graduating Senior
2006 – Nayana Dhavan, A Non-Absolutive and Unified Movement Analysis of Hindi Passives and Ergatives; Winner of the Matthew Alexander award for outstanding honors thesis in Linguistics
2004 – Natasha Abner, The Syntax of English Resultatives (A. Pires, thesis supervisor); Recipient of LSA Virginia Voss Award; recipient of Outstanding Achievement Award, Linguistics Department
2001 – Jessica Rett, Japanese Numeral Classifiers: The Effect of Linguistic Configurations on Category Membership (M. Shatz, thesis supervisor)
Harvard University
1996 – Joanna Veltri, Children’s Acquisition of Reflexive Verbal Morphology in the Imbabura Dialect of Quechua
1995 – Mark Kille, What Thing is Next, I Don’t Quite Know: An Analysis of Variation in Word-Order and Subject-Verb Agreement in Middle Cornish
1995 – Joel Derfner, Abkhaz Wh-Movement
1994 – Ronald A. Fein, The Acquisition of the Genitive of Negation in Russian (co-supervised with Prof. Kenneth Wexler, MIT); Student Winner of Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for ‘Excellence in the work of undergraduates;’ thesis presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development.
1990 – Orin J. Percus, Implicit Arguments in English
* Asterisk denotes (co-) supervision of doctoral dissertation.