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Recent Alumni

Recent Alumni
(1990-Present)
Current Academic Affiliation
Dissertation
Jun Abe Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan (1993) Binding Conditions and Scrambling Without A/A' Distinction
Klaus Abels Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway (2003) Successive Cyclicity, Anti-Locality, and Adposition Stranding
Sung-Ho Ahn Hanyang University, Republic of Korea (1990) Korean Quantification and Universal Grammar
Duk-Ho An University of Toronto (2007) Syntax at the PF Interface
Adolfo Ausin University of Michigan-Flint (2001) On A-movement
Cedric Boeckx Harvard University (2001) Mechanisms of Chain Formation
Željko Bošković University of Connecticut (1995) Principles of Economy in Nonfinite Complementation
Carole Boster University of Connecticut (Language Acquisition, J. Comparative Germanic Linguistics) (1997) Processing and Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition: A Computational Approach
David Braze Haskins Laboratories, Connecticut (2002) Grammaticality, Acceptability and Sentence Processing: A Psycholinguistic Study
Deborah Chen Pichler Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. (2001) Word Order Variability and Acquisition in American Sign Language
Jai-Hyoung Cho Ajou University, Republic of Korea (1994) Scrambling: Crossover, Reconstruction and Binding Theory
Inkie Chung Central Connecticut University (2007) Ecology of PF: A Study of Korean Phonology and Morphology in a Derivational Approach
Marcela Depiante University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire (2000) The Syntax of Deep and Surface Anaphora: A Study of Null Complement Anaphora and Stripping/Bare Argument Ellipsis
Sarah Felber University of Maryland (2004) Isolating the Grammar: Removing Extra-Grammatical Effects from the Theory of Grammar through Investigation of Grammatical Viruses
Lisa Ferro MITRE Natural Language Processing group (1995) A Cross-Linguistic Study of Phonotactics and Vowel Length
Elaine Grolla Universidade de São Paulo (2005) Pronouns as elsewhere elements: implications for language acquisition
Simona Herdan University of Toronto (2008) Degrees and Amounts in Relative Clauses
Kazuko Hiramatsu University of Michigan-Flint (2000) Accessing Linguistic Competence: Evidence from Children's and Adults' Acceptability Judgments
Hiroto Hoshi University of London (SOAS), Great Britain (1994) Passive Verbs and Light Verbs: A Study on Theta Role Assignment
Tien-Hsin Hsin Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2000) Aspects of Maga Rukai Phonology
Atsu Inoue Kanto Gakuin University, Japan (1991) Comparative Study of Parsing in English and Japanese
Yasuo Ishii Kanda University of International Studies, Japan (1991) Operators and Empty Categories in Japanese
Bosook Kang Sookmyung Women's University
(2005) Acquisition of Language Particular Properties under Impoverished Input
Michiya Kawai Huron University College, Canada (1992) Missing Object Constructions and Null Operator predication
Jeong-Seok Kim Yeungnam University, Republic of Korea (1997) Syntactic Focus Movement and Ellipsis: A Minimalist Approach
Pei-Jung Kuo National Chiayi University (2009) IP internal movement and topicalization
Mariana Lambova Central Connecticut State University, New Britain CT (2003) On information structure and clausal architecture: Evidence from Bulgrian
Laurel-Anne LaPorte-Grimes   (2001) The Syntax and Acquisition of Verbal Inflection
Jeong-Shik Lee Wonkwang University, Republic of Korea (1992) Case Alternation in Korean: Case Minimality
Eun-Ji Lee Daebul University, Republic of Korea (1992) On the Extended Projection Principle
Rhang-hye-yun Lee Korea University, Republic of Korea (1994) Economy of Representation
Laura Lim Conway Palumbo Haskins Laboratories, Connecticut (1997) Excavating Semantics
Hideki Maki Gifu University, Japan (1995) The Syntax of Particles
Roger Martin Yokohama University, Japan (1996) Minimalist Theory of PRO and Control
Luisa Martí Martínez CASTL, Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway (2003) Contextual Variables
Ayumi Matsuo Sheffield University, Great Britain (1998) A Comparative Study of Tense and Ellipsis
Kazumi Matsuoka Keio University, Japan (1998) The Acquisition of Japanese Case Particles and the Theory of Case Checking
Yoichi Miyamoto Osaka University, Japan (1994) Secondary Predicates and Tense
Keiko Murasugi Nanzan University, Japan (1991) Noun Phrases in Japanese and English: A Study in Syntax, Learnability and Acquisition
Naoko Nemoto Mt Holyoke College, Massachusetts (1993) Chains and Case Positions: A Study From Scrambling in Japanese
Wei-Jia Ni National Institutes of Health, Maryland (1991) Referentiality and Garden Path Phenomena
Fumikazu Niinuma Kochi Gakuen College, Japan (2003) The Syntax of Honorification
Masashi Nomura Chukyo University, Japan (2005) Nominative Case and AGREE(ment)
Masao Ochi Osaka University, Japan (1999) Constraints on Feature Checking
Toshiko Oda   (2008) Degree Constructions in Japanese
Sei-Rang Oh Dongguk University
(2005) Plurality Markers across Languages
Satoshi Oku Hokkaido University, Japan (1998) A Theory of Selection and Reconstruction in the Minimalist Perspective
Javier Ormazabal University of the Basque Country, Spain (1995) The Syntax of Complementation: On the Connection Between Syntactic Structure and Selection
Bum-Sik Park Dongguk University (2005) Identity and locality in ellipsis
Myung-Kwan Park Dongguk University, Republic of Korea (1994) Morpho-Syntactic Study of Korean Verbal Inflection
Heeheon Park Honam University, Republic of Korea (1996) Government Relations in Korean Phonology
Natalia Rakhlin
University of Connecticut (2007) Semantic Manifestations of the Developing Theory of Mind
Lara Reglero Florida State University (2004) A'-Dependencies in Spanish and Basque
Nianqi Ren   (1992) Phonation Types and Stop Consonant Distinctions: Shanghai Chinese
Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo Indiana University (2007) The syntax of objects. Agree and Differential Object Marking
Joaquin Romero Gallego Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain (1995) Gestural Organization in SpanishAn Experimental Study of Spirantization and Aspiration
Jaya Sarma Texas A&M University-Kingsville
(1991) The Acquisition of WH-Questions in English
Karen Smith-Lock Macquarie University, Australia (1992) Morphological Skills in Normal and Specifically Language-impaired Children
Keun-Won Sohn Hannam University, Republic of Korea (1995) Negative Polarity Items, Scope, and Economy
Penka Stateva Post-doctoral Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin (2002) How Different are Different Degree Constructions?
Arthur Stepanov Universitaet Potsdam, Germany (2001) Cyclic Domains: A Minimalist Study on Adjunction and Extraction
Sandra Stjepanovic West Virginia University (1999) What Do Scrambling, Second Position Cliticization and Multiple WH-Fronting have in Common?
Koji Sugisaki Mie University, Japan (2003) Innate Constraints on Language Variation: Evidence from Child Language
Daiko Takahashi Tohoku University, Japan (1994) Minimality of Movement
Rosalind Thornton Macquarie University, Australia (1990) Adventures in Long-distance Moving. The Acquisition of Complex Wh-questions
Emma Ticio Quesada University of Houston (2003) On the Structure of DPs
Asako Uchibori Nihon University, Japan (2000) The Syntax of Subjunctive Complements: Evidence from Japanese
Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria Basque Center for Language Research, and University of the Basque Country, Spain (1993) On the Typology of Negative Polarity Licensing
Sasa Vukic Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina (2003) On Features and the MLC
Qi-Emily Wang Rush University, Illinois (1995) Are Syllables Units of Speech Motor Organization? -- A Kinematic Analysis of Labial and Velar Gestures in Cantonese
Douglas Wharram Memorial University (2003) On the interpretation of (un)certain indefinites in Inuktitut and related languages
Yi Xu Northwestern University, Illinois (1993) Contextual Tonal Variation in Mandarin Chinese
Maki Yamane Kanagawa University, Japan
(2003) On Interaction of First-Language Transfer and Universal Grammar in adult Second Language Acquisition: Wh-Movement in L1-Japanese/L2-English Interlanguage
Shu-Ying Yang National Zhanghua Normal University, Taiwan (1991) Dative Alternation in Chinese and English
Kazuko Yatsushiro Humboldt University (1999) Case Licensing and VP Structure