Ph.D. Alumni
2020
Martin Fuchs
- Dissertation: On the Synchrony and Diachrony of the Spanish Imperfective Domain: Contextual Modulation and Semantic Change
- Advisor: Maria Mercedes Pinango
- Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher, at UiL-OTS (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Utrecht University).
Dolly Goldenberg
- Dissertation: Audio-tactile Integration in Speech Perception: Effects of Aero Tactile Information on the Perception of Voicing in American English and Thai
- Advisor: Jason Shaw
- Currently: Computational Linguist, Apple
Matthew Tyler
- Dissertation: Argument Structure and Argument-marking in Choctaw
- Advisor: Jim Wood
- Currently: Junior Research Fellow in linguistics, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge
2019
Sean Gleason
- Dissertation: The morpho-syntax and pragmatics of the Latin Accusativus cum Infinitivo
- Advisor: Raffaella Zanuttini
- Position: Teacher, Notre-Dame High School, West Haven, CT
Alysia Harris
- Dissertation: The non-aspectual meaning of African American English ‘aspectual’ markers
- Advisors: Ashwini Deo and Claire Bowern
- Position: Spoken work Poet and Editor, Scalawag Magazine
Ryan Kasak
- Dissertation: Affix ordering and templatic morphology in Mandan
- Advisors: Stephen Anderson and Claire Bowern
- Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Okhlahoma
Luke Lindemann
- Dissertation: A jewel inlaid: ergativity and markedness in Nepali
- Advisor: Claire Bowern
- Position: Fellow, Yale Center for Medical Informatics (New Haven, CT) and the Dept of Veterans Affairs (West Haven, CT)
2018
Natalie Schrimpf
- Dissertation: Effects of topic structure on automatic summarization
- Advisor: Robert Frank
- Position: Language Engineer, Amazon
Sara Sanchez-Alonso
- Dissertation: The cognitive sources of language change and variation: connecting synchronic variation and diachrony in Spanish copula use
- Advisor: Maria Piñango
- Position: Post-doc, Haskins Laboratories
2017
Leandro Bolaños
- Dissertation: Perception and production of timing in non-native speech: Russian palatalization
- Advisor: Stephen Anderson
- Position: Analytical Linguist, Google
Shira Calamar0
- Dissertation: Stratal Harmonic Serialism: Typological predictions and implications
- Advisors: Gaja Jarosz and Claire Bowern
- Position: Language Engineer, Amazon
Gregg Castellucci
- Dissertation: The temporal organization of mouse ultrasonic vocalizations and its dependence on Foxp2 expression
- Advisors: Stephen Anderson & David McCormick
- Position: Postdoctoral Trainee, Long Lab (NYU Medical Center); Affiliated Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
Yao-ying Lai
- Dissertation: The complement coercion phenomenon: Implications for models of sentence processing
- Advisor: Maria Piñango
- Position: Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University in Taiwan
Sabina Matyiku
- Dissertation: Semantic effects of head movement: Evidence from negative auxiliary inversion
- Advisors: Robert Frank & Raffaella Zanuttini
- Position: Machine Learning Engineer, Apple Computer
2016
Jason Zentz
- Dissertation: Forming wh-questions in Shona: A comparative Bantu perspective
- Advisors: Robert Frank & Raffaella Zanuttini
- Position: Assistant Dean of Academic and Faculty Affairs, FAS Dean’s Office, Yale University
Nicole Palffy-Muhoray
- Dissertation: Hungarian temporal and aspectual reference in the absence of dedicated markers
- Advisor: Ashwini Deo
- Position: Asst. Director, Yale Peabody Museum Student Programs
2015
E-Ching Ng
- Dissertation: The phonology of contact: Creole sound change in context
- Advisor: Stephen Anderson
- Position: English Department, National University of Singapore
2014
Emily Gasser
- Dissertation: Windesi Wamesa morphophonology
- Advisor: Claire Bowern
- Position: Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College
Kelly Nedwick
- Dissertation: Metalinguistic negation in English and Arabic
- Advisor: Laurence Horn
- Position: Program Development Consultant, Niagara University
Michael Freedman
- Dissertation: Frozen scope and grammatical optimization
- Advisor: Robert Frank
- Position: Computational Linguist, Ntrepid Corp
2013
Ilkyu Kim
- Dissertation: Korean -(n)un, salience, and information structure
- Advisors: Ashwini Deo, Laurence Horn
- Position: Associate Professor, Kangwon National University
Mark Tiede
- Dissertation: An MRI-based morphological approach to vocal tract area function estimation
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
2012
Argyro Katsika
- Dissertation: Coordination in prosodic gestures at boundaries in Greek
- Advisor: Jelena Krivokapić
- Position: Asssistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Yuan-Chen Jenny Yang
- Dissertation: An information structure approach to passives: with special focus on Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Southern Min
- Advisor: Laurence Horn
- Position: Assistant Teaching Professor,Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers
2011
Scott McClure
- Dissertation: A system for inducing the phonology and inflectional morphology of a natural language
- Advisors: Gaja Jarosz, Stephen Anderson
- Position: Speech Scientist, Nuance Communications, Inc.
2010
Rajdip Dhillon
- Dissertation: Stress and tone in Indo-Aryan Languages
- Advisor: Darya Kavitskaya
Jennifer Mack
- Dissertation: Information structure and the licensing of English subjects
- Advisor: Laurence Horn
- Position: Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders and Neuroscience & Behavior Graduate Program at the University of Massachusetts- Amherst
2009
Erich Round
- Dissertation: Kayardild morphology, phonology and morphosyntax
- Advisor: Stephen Anderson
- Position: Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland, Australia
Michael Proctor
- Dissertation: Gestural characterization of a phonological class: The liquids
- Advisor: Darya Kavitskaya
- Position: Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Jodi Reich
- Dissertation: Morphosyntax acquisition in hildren with disorders of spoken language
- Advisor: Maria Babyonyshev
- Position: Associate Professor of Instuction, PhD Program Director, Temple University, College of Public Health
William Salmon
- Dissertation: Dislocations, context and composition: or, double dubjects in Brazilian Portuguese
- Advisor: Laurence Horn
- Position: Professor of Linguistics and head of the Department of English, Linguistics and Writing Studies, University of Minnesota Duluth
2008
Thomas Conners
- Dissertation: Tengger Javanese
- Advisor: Dianne Jonas
- Position: Research Scientist and Associate Research Professor, University of Maryland, Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
Man Gao
- Dissertation: Mandarin tones: An articulatory phonology account
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Dalarna University, Sweden
Minjung Son
- Dissertation: The nature of Korean place assimilation: Gestural overlap and gestural reduction
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Assistant Professor, Hannam University, Korea
2007
Chao Li
- Dissertation: Mandarin resultative verb compounds: Where syntax, semantics & pragmatics meet
- Advisors: Maria Babyonyshev, Laurence Horn
- Position: Professor, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Hosung Nam
- Dissertation: A gestural coupling model of syllable structure
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Assistant Professor, Korea University Dept. of English Language and Literature
Stefania Marin
- Dissertation: Vowel to vowel coordination, diphthongs and articulatory phonology
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Reserch Scientist, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institute of Phonetics,
2006
Mariko Yanagawa
- Dissertation: Articulatory timing in first and second language: A cross-linguistic study
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
2004
Petra Burkhardt Schumacher
- Dissertation: Representation and interpretation at the syntax-discourse interface: Establishing dependency
- Advisor: Maria Piñango
- Position: Professorin für Sprachwissenschaft des Deutschen / Empirische Sprachwissenschaft, University of Koln
2003
Kuniyoshi Ishikawa
- Dissertation: Predicates, events, and discourse: representing the so-called head-internal relative construction in Japanese
- Advisor: Laurence Horn
- Position: Associate Professor, Meiji University
Marianne Pouplier
- Dissertation: Units of phonological encoding: Empirical evidence
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Professor, Institut für Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung, University of Munich
2002
Iris Smorodinsky
- Dissertation: Schwas with and without active gestural control
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Associate Teaching Professor, Department of French and Francophone Studies, Georgetown University
2000
K. David Harrison
- Dissertation: Topics in the phonology and morphology of Tuvan
- Advisor: Stephen Anderson
- Position: Professor and Chair, Swarthmore College
Seungja Choi
- Dissertation: Negation in Korean and Japanese
- Advisor: Laurence Horn
- Position: Director of Language Instruction/Associate DUS /Senior Lector II), Yale MacMillan Center: Council on East Asian Studies
William A. Vance
- Dissertation: The Rigvedic temporal vocabulary, with linguistic notes on some related Indo-European words
- Advisor: Stanley Insler
- Position: Director The Executive Voice
1999
Bryan Gick
- Dissertation: Articulatory basis of syllable structure: a study of English glides and liquids
Advisor: Louis Goldstein - Position: Professor Universtiy of British Columbia
Douglas N. Honorof
- Dissertation: The effect of explicit articulatory training on adult gestural acquisition
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
Lizanne Kaiser
- Dissertation: Morphosyntax of clausal nominalization constructions
- Advisor: Stephen Anderson
- Position: Linguistic Consultant at Lexicon Branding, Inc., California USA
1997
Yuki Takatori
- Dissertation: A study of phonological constraint in Slavic phonology
- Advisors: William Mahota/Draga Zec
- Position: Associate Professor, Georgia State University
1996
Miles Beckwith
- Dissertation: The Greek reduplicated aorist
- Advisor: B. Vine
- Position: Chair, Associate Professor of English, Iona College
M. David Greenspon
- Dissertation: On reflexives and middles
- Advisor: Laurence Horn
Parviz Parsafar
- Dissertation: Spatial prepositions in Modern Persian
- Advisor: Laurence Horn
- Position: Instructor, Yuba College (English as a Second Language)
1995
Rosanne H. Pelletier
- Dissertation: Aspects of the syntax and morphology of Telugu
- Advisor: Laurence Horn
1994
Cleo Condoravdi
- Dissertation: Descriptions in context
- Advisor: Donka Farkas
- Position: Professor, Stanford University
Sun-Hee Kim
- Dissertation: Division of labor between grammar and pragmatics: The distribtuion and interpretation of anaphora
- Advisor: Laurence Horn
Simon Kimani Njogu
- Dissertation: Discourse in East African dialogue poetry: a sociolinguistic approach
- Advisor: A. Biersteker
- Position: Director of Twaweza Communications and former Associate Professor of African languages at Kenyatta University in Kenya
1993
Margaret Hall Dunn
- Dissertation: The phonetics and phonology of geminate consonants: Evidence from Finnish and Italian
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
Martha Wang Gallagher
- Dissertation: A Study of reduplicatives in the Chu Cí
- Advisor: Hugh Stimson
- Position: Professor of Chinese, U.S. Miltary Academy, West Point, NY (Retired)
Elizabeth C. Zsiga
- Dissertation: Features, gestures & the temporal aspects of phonological organization
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University
1992
Peter Hendriks
- Dissertation: History & development of nominal predication in 8th century Japanese
- Advisor: S. Martin
- Position: Deputy Dean of Students, Australian National University
Caroline L. Smith
- Dissertation: The temporal organization of vowel and consonant gestures
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Associate Professor Department of Linguistics University of New Mexico
1991
Andre M. Cooper
- Dissertation: An articulatory account of aspiration in English
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Associate Professor, University of the West Indies
1990
Sung-bum Lee
- Dissertation: On the form and interpretation of inflectional anaphora
- Advisor: Donka Farkas
- Position: Professor, Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Sogang University
1989
Harriet S. Magen
- Dissertation: Acoustic study of vowel-vowel coarticulation in English
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Professor Emerita , Rhode Island College, Department of Communications
Rena A. Krakow
- Dissertation: Articulatory organization of syllables: kinematic analysis of kabial and velar gestures
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Associate Professor, Temple University, School of Public Health
1988
Suzanne E. Boyce
- Dissertation: The influence of phonological structure on articulatory organization in Turkish and English: Vowel harmony and coarticularion
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Professor, University of Cincinnati, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
1987
Sharon Y. Manuel
- Dissertation: Acoustic & perceptual consequences of V-V coarticulation in three Bantu languages
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Associate Professor at Northeastern University, Speech Pathology and Audiology
1985
Alexander C. Lehrman
- Dissertation: Simple thematic imperfectives in Anatolian and Indo-European
- Advisor: Warren Cowgill
- Position: Associate Professor, University of Delaware, Deceased: October 10, 2011,
Charles E. Hoequist, Jr.
- Dissertation: A comparative study of linguistic rhythm
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Researcher, Cambridge University, Department of Engineering, Deceased: June 7, 2018,
Greer Watson
- Dissertation: Pronouns and prepositional phrases
- Advisor: Laurence Horn
- Position: Researcher, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto
1984
Donald A. Ringe, Jr.
- Dissertation: Perfect tense in Greek inscriptions
- Advisor: Warren Cowgill
- Position: Professor, University of Pensylvania
Leon A. Serafim
- Dissertation: Shondu: The prehistory of a Northern Ryukyuan dialect in Japanese
- Advisor: Samuel E. Martin
- Position: Professor Emeritus of the University of Hawaii
1982
Janet Elaine Gertz
- Dissertation: The nominative-accusative neuter plural in Anatolian
- Advisor: Warren Cowgill
- Position: Director for Preservation for Columbia University Libraries
Karen E. Sandness
- Dissertation: The evolution of the Japnese past and perfect particles in the Muromati periods
- Advisor: Samuel E. Martin
- Position: Assistant Professor, Linfield College, Oregon
Michael A. Covington
- Dissertation: Syntactic theory in the Late Middle Ages: Modernistic models of sentence dtructure
- Advisor: Rulon Wells
- Position: Senior Research Scientist Emeritus former Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Institute for Artificial Intelligence The University of Georgia
Douglas H. Whalen
- Dissertation: Perceptual effects of phonetic mismatches
- Advisor: Louis Goldstein
- Position: Distinguished Professor of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, The Graduate Center (CUNY); Vice President of Research, Haskins Laboratories; Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, Yale University.
1979
May Chao Shih
- Dissertation: Methods for diagnosing ubsystems of L2 grammars
- Position: Assistant Professor of English, San Francisco State University
William H. Cook
- Dissertation: A grammar of North Carolina Cherokee
- Advisor: Floyd Lounsbury
- Position: Guest Professor of English, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
1978
Andrea G. Levitt
- Dissertation: The effects of clause structure on memory for sentences
- Position: Professor Emerita of French and Linguistics, Wellesley College
1977
Stephanie Wroth Jamison
- Dissertation: The -aya- verbal formations in Vedic Sanskrit
- Advisor: Stanley Insler
- Position: Distinguished Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
1975
J. Marshall Unger
- Dissertation: Studies in Early Japanese morphophonemics
- Advisor: Samuel Martin
- Position: Emeritus Professor of Japanese, Ohio State University
Ronald W. Beukema
- Dissertation: A grammatical sketch of Chimborazo Quichua
- Advisor: Floyd Lounsbury
- Position: Computer Analyst, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Samuel R. Ramsey, Jr.
- Dissertation: Accent and morphology in Korean dialects
- Advisor: Samuel Martin
- Position: Professor of East Asian Linguistics, University of Maryland
Shigeru Tsuchida
- Dissertation: Reconstruction of Proto-Tsouic phonology
- Advisor: Isidore Dyen
- Position: Professor, Teikyo Heisei University
1974
Jared S. Klein
- Dissertation: The particle u in the Riqveda
- Advisor: Stanley Insler
- Position: Distinguished Research Professor of Linguistics, Classics, and Germanic and Slavic Languages, Franklin College of Arts and Science, University of Georgia
Curtis D. McFarland
- Dissertation: The dialects of the Bikol area
- Advisor: Isidore Dyen
Marianne Mithun
- Dissertation: A grammar of Tuscarora
- Advisor: Floyd Lounsbury
- Position: Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul D. Black
- Dissertation: Lowland East Cushitic: Reconstruction & subgrouping
- Advisor: Isidore Dyen
- Position: Casual VET Teaching - Adult Literacy & Numeracy
Thomas G. Dieterich
- Dissertation: Non-pronominal anaphora and specificity in English
- Advisor: Rulon Wells
- Position: Professor of Applied Linguistics Portland State College
1973
Bernd Nothofer
- Dissertation: The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic
- Advisor: Isidore Dyen
- Position: Professor Emeritus, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Clifford Abbott
- Dissertation: Derivations of English infinitives
- Advisor: Rulon Wells
- Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
William M. Christie, Jr.
- Dissertation: A Stratificational view of linguistic change
- Advisor: Sydney Lamb
- Position: Professor of English, University of Arizona
1972
Paul Alexander Humez
- Dissertation: The vocalic system of Modern Standard French
- Position: Free Lance Writer
1971
Hans Henrich Hock
- Dissertation: The so-called aeoIic inflection of the Greek contract verbs
- Advisor: Warren Cowgill
- Position: Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Sanskrit, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jorge E. Hankamer
- Dissertation: Constraints on deletion rules in syntax
- Position: Professor, UC Santa Cruz
1970
Delagnel H. Roop
- Dissertation: A grammar of the Lisu language
- Advisor: William Cornyn
- Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii, Department of Indo-Pacific Languages
David Francis
- Dissertation: Greek disyllabic roots: The aorist formations
- Advisor: Warren Cowgill
- Position Professor of Classics, University of Texas, Deceased
David C. Bennett
- Dissertation: Spatial & temporal uses of English presuppositions
- Position: Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, Deceased: 2002
1969
H. Christoph Wolfart
- Dissertation: An outline of Plains Cree morphology
- Advisor: Floyd Lounsbury
- Position: Distinguished Professor of Linguistics Emeritus, University of Manitoba,
Yoshihiko Ikegami
- Dissertation: The semiotic structure of the English verbs of motion
- Position: Professor, University of Tokyo
1968
Elizabeth W. Barber
- Dissertation: The computer-aided analysis of undeciphered ancient texts
- Position: Professor Emerita of Archaeology and Linguistics, Occidental College
Sarah Thomason
- Dissertation: Noun suffixation in Serbo-Croatian dialects
- Advisor: Alexander Schenker
- Position: Professor, University of Michigan
1967
Andrew L. Sihler
- Dissertation: On the phonemic status of the Proto-Indoeuropean resonants
- Advisor: Warren Cowgill
- Position: Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Henry E. Rogers
- Dissertation: The phonology and morphology of Sherbro
- Position: Professor, University of Toronto, Deceased: February 2, 2010
John Guy Fought
- Dissertation: A grammar of Chortí
- Position: Professor of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Paul H. Voorhis
- Dissertation: A grammar of Kickapoo
- Position: Professor Emeritus of Native Studies and Languages, Brandon University, Manitoba
1966
Frederick J. Damerau
- Dissertation: Empirical investigation of statistically generated sentences
- Position Researcher, IBMThomas J. Watson, Deceased: January 27, 2009,
Raimo Anttila
- Dissertation: Proto-Indoeuropean schwa-ablaut
- Advisor: Warren Cowgill
- Position: Professor Emeritus, UCLA Linguistics
Adam Makkai
- Dissertation: The idiom structure of English
- Advisor: Rulon Wells
- Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago
1965
John U. Wolff
- Dissertation: Syntax of Cebuano Bisayari
- Advisor: Isidore Dyen
- Position: Professor Emeritus, Linguistics and Asian Studies, Cornell University
1964
Valerie Becker Makkai
- Dissertation: Verb structures of Modern Literary Arabic and Lebanese Colloquial Arabic
- Position: Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago
W. Keith Percival
- Dissertation: A grammar of Toba-Batak
- Advisor: Isidore Dyen
- Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Kansas
Alan M. Stevens
- Dissertation: A grammar of Madurese
- Advisor: Isidore Dyen
- Position: Professor Emeritus, Queens College
Kay R.M. Williamson
- Dissertation: The Kolokuma dialect of Ijo
- Advisor: Bernard Bloch
- Position Dean, Graduate School University of Port Harcourt, Deceased: January 3, 2005,
1962
Samuel Jay Keyser
- Dissertation: The dialect of Samuel Worcester
- Advisor: Helge Kökeritz
- Position: Professor of Linguistics Emeritus, MIT
1961
John J. Chew, Jr.
- Dissertation: A transformational analysis of the syntax of Colloquial Japanese
- Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto-Anthropology
1960
George Cardona
- Dissertation: The Indo-European thematic aorists
- Advisor: Warren Cowgill
- Position: Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Karl M.D. Rosen
- Dissertation: Greek loans in Latin through the period of the Republic
- Position: Professor in Classics and Linguistics, University of Kansas, Deceased: July 19, 2018,
Herbert Landar
- Dissertation: Navaho syntax
- Advisor: Floyd Lounsbury
- Position: Professor of Linguistics, English and Anthropology, California State University of Los Angeles, Deceased: February 3, 2003
1959
Hugh M. Stimson
- Dissertation: The Chung-yüan yin yüng: A study in an Early Mandarin phonological system
- Position: Yale University (Professor Emeritus), Deceased, January 24, 2011
1958
Wallace Chafe
- Dissertation: Seneca morphology
- Position Professor of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara, Deceased: February 3, 2019
Robert A. Bays
- Dissertation: Tense and aspect in Spanish
Franklin Southworth
- Dissertation: An experiment in the comparative method based on four modern Indic languages
- Position: Professor Emeritus of South Asian Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
1957
Warren Cowgill
- Dissertation: The Indo-european longavowel preterites
- Position: Professor of Linguistics, Yale University, Deceased: 1985,
1955
John C. Street
- Dissertation: Outline grammar of the language of the Secret History of the Mongols
- Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Betty J. Sheft
- Dissertation: Grammatical method in Pivini
Roderick Ross Macdonald
- Dissertation: Russian prepositions
Warren Held
- Dissertation: The relative sentence in Hittite
Kun Chng
- Dissertation: The Kathinavastu (study of a Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit text)
1954
Lawrence C. Thompson
- Dissertation: Grammar of South Vietnamese
- Position: Professor of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Deceased: 2009,
Richard B. Noss
- Dissertation: Outline of Siamese grammar
1953
Alfred Sheldon Wise
- Dissertation: Russian noun suffixation
Alexander Schenker
- Dissertation: Nominal inflection in modern colloquial Polish
- Position: Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Yale University, Deceased: August 21, 2019
Howard B. Garey
- Dissertation: The historical development of tenses from Late Latin to Old French
- Position: Professor, Yale University, Deceased: September 27, 2014,
1950
Andrew H. Yarrow
- Dissertation:
Eleanor H. Jorden
- Dissertation:
- Advisor: Bernard Block
- Position: Chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages at the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, Deceased: February 18, 2009
Samuel E. Martin
- Dissertation: Japanese morphophonemics
- Advisor: Bernard Bloch
- Position: Professor of Far Eastern Linguistics, Yale University, Deceased: November 28, 2009
Notable Linguists Awarded Yale Degrees in Other Fields
1963 Paul Postal
(PhD Anthropology): Some syntactic rules in Mohawk
1963 Stanley Insler
(PhD Far Eastern Languages & Literatures)
1955 Harold C. Conklin
(PhD Anthropology)
1949 Floyd G. Lounsbury
(PhD Anthropology): Comparative Iroquoian morphology
1939 Charles F. Hockett
(PhD Anthropology): A descriptive grammar of the Potawatomi Language
1935 Mary Haas
(PhD Anthropology): A grammar of the Tunica language
1933 Walter Dyk
(PhD Anthropology): A grammar of Wishram
1933 Morris Swadesh
(PhD Anthropology): The internal economy of the Nootka word
1933 Stanley Stewart Newman
(PhD Anthropology): A grammatical sketch of Yokuts