Present Students
PhD Evaluation Papers
Jiajia Su (co-supervisor: Jessica Coon) Mandarin Classifiers (expected May 2015)
MA Project
Yuliya Manyakina (co-supervisor: Jessica Coon) Medials in Mi'gmaq (expected May 2015)
Past Students
PhD
2012 Bethany Lochbihler (co-supervisor: Glyne Piggott) Aspects of Argument Licensing
2012 Jozina Vander Klok (co-supervisor: Luis Alonso-Ovalle) TAM Markers in Paciran Javanese
2012 Mina Sugimura Domain Extension: A Study of Restructuring Predicates in Japanese and the Role of Head Movement
2009 Larissa Nossalik (co-supervisor with supervisor: Lydia White) L2 Acquisition of Russian Aspect
2009 Tobin Skinner (co-supervisor: Glyne Piggott) Investigations of Downward Movement
2009 Tohru Uchiumi (co-supervisor: Kyle Johnson) Binding and control: a unified approach
2006 Naoko Tomioka Resultative constructions: cross-linguistic variation and the syntax-semantics interface
2005 Lotus Goldberg (co-supervisor: Jason Merchant) Verb-stranding VP ellipsis: a cross-linguistic study
2003 Hela Ben Ayed Mood and functional projections
2002 Shunji Inagaki (co-supervisor with supervisor: Michel Paradis) Transfer and learnability in second language argument structure: Motion verbs with locational/directional PPs in L2 English and Japanese
2002 Mikael Vinka Causativization in North Sami
2001 Mikinari Matsuoka Linking arguments to phrase structure: a study of passives, psych verbs, and ditransitive verbs in Japanese
2001 Asya Pereltsvaig On the nature of intra-clausal relations: a study of copular sentences in Russian and Italian
2000 Ileana Paul Malagasy clause structure
2000 Makiko Hirakawa (co-supervisor with supervisor: Lydia White) Unaccusativity in Second Language Acquisition
1999 Joyce Garavito (co-supervisor with supervisor: Lydia White) The Second Language Acquisition of Object Agreement in Spanish
1997 Mengistu Amberber Transitivity alternations, even-types and light verbs
1996 Dongdong Chen (co-supervisor with supervisor: Lydia White) The "Flip" of Psych Predicates in Second Language Acquisition
1995 Anna Maclachlan Aspects of ergativity in Tagalog
1992 Alan Libert On the distinction between syntactic and semantic case
1991 Mireille Tremblay Possession and datives: Binary branching from the lexicon to syntax
1990 Eithne Guilfoyle Functional categories and phrase structure parameters
1989 Christine Tellier Universal licensing implications for parasitic gap constructions
1986 Nancy Hildebrant (co-supervisor with supervisor: David Caplan) A linguistically-based parsing analysis of aphasics' comprehension of referential dependencies
1985 Elly van Gelderen S-bar: Its character, behavior and relationship to (i)t
MA
-- MA Projects
2011 Stephan Hurtubise (co-supervised with Bernhard Schwarz)
2011 Eva Dobler
2007 Chigusa Morita
2000 Junko Murai
1996 Afsaneh Assil
1994 Natividad Del Pilar
1993 Jean Du Plessis
-- MA Theses
1996 Vivianne Phillips Up-rooting the Prefix "maha" in Malagasy
1996 Miwako Uesaka The "te-iru" Construction in Japanese: The Interaction between Aspect and Syntax
1993 Amanda Miller (co-supervised with Michel Paradis) Language Indexation: A Syntactic Constraint on Code-mixing
1992 Masanori Nakamura Move-alpha, Scope, and Relativized Minimality
1992 Sonja Knoll Word Order within Infinitival Complements in Swiss-German
1990 Doreen Solin (co-supervised with Lydia White) Germanic verb order: the case for INFL-second
1990 Lesly Wade-Woolley For-to Complements in Appalachian English
1987 Denise Fekete Pro-drop and Verb-second: Romance and Germanic in Old French
1986 Rose-Marie Déchaine (co-supervised with Claire Lefebvre at UQAM) Opérations sur les structures d'argument: le cas des constructions sérielles en Haitien
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