Sigríður Sigurðardóttir
Dissertation: Language Forecasting: With Focus on Variation and Change in Icelandic
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Ph.D. Dissertations
Yiding Hao
Dissertation: Theory and Applications of Attribution for Interpretable Language Technology
Advisor: Dana Angluin and Robert Frank
Position: Faculty Fellow, Center for Data Science, New York University
Sarah Babinski
Dissertation: Archival Phonetics & Prosodic Typology in Sixteen Australian Languages
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zürich
Joshua Phillips
Dissertation: At the intersection of temporal and modal interpretation: Essays on irreality
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University
Andy Zhang
Dissertation: Linguistic Variation From Cognitive Variability: The Case of English ‘have’
Advisor: Maria Piñango
Position: Linguist, Google (Human Evaluation and Signals team)
Christopher Geissler
Dissertation: Temporal Articulatory Stability, Phonological Variation, and Lexical Contrast Preservation in Diaspora Tibetan
Advisor: Jason Shaw
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Carleton College
Parker Brody
Dissertation: Computational Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Pama-Nyungan Verb Conjugation Classes
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Computational Linguist, Lausanne Business Solutions
Martin Fuchs
Dissertation: On the Synchrony and Diachrony of the Spanish Imperfective Domain: Contextual Modulation and Semantic Change
Advisor: Maria Piñango
Position: Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Ohio State University
Matthew Tyler
Dissertation: Argument Structure and Argument-marking in Choctaw
Advisor: Jim Wood
Position: Junior Research Fellow in Linguistics, Christ’s College, University of Cambridge
2019
Rikker Dockum
Dissertation:The Tonal Comparative Method: Tai Tone in Historical Perspective
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Swarthmore
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
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
Position: Computational Linguist, Apple
Alysia Harris
Dissertation: The non-aspectual meaning of African American English ‘aspectual’ markers
Advisors: Ashwini Deo and Claire Bowern
Position: Spoken word Poet and Editor, Scalawag Magazine
Ryan Kasak
Dissertation: Affix ordering and templatic morphology in Mandan
Advisors: Stephen Anderson and Claire Bowern
Luke Lindemann
Dissertation: A jewel inlaid: ergativity and markedness in Nepali
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Postdoctoral Associate, Medical Informatics Center, George Washington University
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: Associate Research Scientist, 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 Calamaro
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
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, 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
2014
Emily Gasser
Dissertation: Windesi Wamesa morphophonology
Advisor: Claire Bowern
Position: Associate 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 subjects in Brazilian Portuguese
Advisor: Laurence Horn
Position: Professor of Linguistics and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of North Texas
2008
Thomas Conners
Dissertation: Tengger Javanese
Advisor: Dianne Jonas
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
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 subsystems 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
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
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, Deceased: January 27, 2023
Adam Makkai
Dissertation: The idiom structure of English
Advisor: Rulon Wells
Position: Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago, Deceased: January 18, 2020
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
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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