2024
PhD

• Andel Blake:  The Abui People’s Language and Plants:  An Ethnobotanical Investigation in Eastern Indonesia
• Amber Camp:  The Perception of the Interaction of Tone and Intonation in Thai.  Chaminade University
• Kai-Ying Lin:  On Mandarin Unaccusativity:  A Perspective From Language Acquisition
• Akari Ohba:  Acquiring the Unobservable:  Empathy Verbs, Belief Verbs, and Long-Distance Binding of Zibun “self” in Child Japanese
• N. Ha’alilio Solomon:   Attitudes and Ideologies Surrounding ‘ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi: A Qualitative Study.  University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• Christina Truong:  Western Austronesian Applicative Constructions: Typological and Functional Approaches
• Louward Zubiri:  The Acquisition of Coastal Bikol

 

MA

• Asperheim, Margaret
• Hong, Justin
• Jimenez, Jezzabella
• Le, Amanda
• Li, Yihan
• Schwerdtfeger, Kianu

 

2023
PhD

• Kavon Hooshiar: Facilitating language documentation through incremental development of digital archive infrastructure (Chair: Gary Holton).  Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• Anongnard Nusartlert:  ISAN-THAI Diglossia:  Intergenerational Transmission as the Key Indicator to Vitality (Chair:  Kamil Deen).  Khon Kaen University

MA

• Arnold, Juliana
• Brennan, Patrick
• Cabrera, Angeli
• Delatte, Percy
• Fessler, Eli
• Jessen, Joel
• Jeter, Jessamine
• Liotta Madison
• Ma, Yunzhou
• Scheel, Juniper
• Yount, Ashley

 

2022
PhD

• Kevin Baetscher:  Predicate Initiality in Space and Time (Chair: Gary Holton)
• Khairunnisa:  Diathesis, Grammatical Relations, and Clitics in Ampenan Sasak (Chair: Bradley McDonnell)
• Leah Pappas: A Multi-Modal Study of Spatial Language in Hawu in Typological Perspective (Chair: Gary Holton). University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• Margaret Ransdell-Green:  Kala Phonology in a Typological and Regional Context (Chair: Shelece Easterday)
• Jennifer Sou:  The Acquisition of Kosraean and English: A Diglossic Community at a Crossroads (Chair: Kamil Deen)
• Ashleigh Surma:  Reciprocity and Language Work: Considering the Role of the Outsider Linguist (Chair: Andrea Berez-Kroeker).  The Language Conservancy

MA

• Chang, Chao-Chun
• De Falco, Ella
• Eastman, Lydia
• Farrall, Dannielle
• Gomes, Melia
• Griffin, Laura
• Hendy, Caroline
• Lai, Audrey
• McLeod, Kelli
• Wilhoite, Alyssa

 

2021
PhD

• Catherine Lee Brockway:  Building high-frequency word lists for the semantic domain of ʻĀINA (‘land’) using a raw corpus of spoken ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Chair: Andrea Berez-Kroeker).  United Nations CIFAL Center of Honolulu
• John Elliott:  A grammar of Enxet Sur (Chair: Lyle Campbell).
• Thomas Kettig:  Haʻina ʻia mai ana ka puana: The vowels of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi  (Chair: Rory Turnbull).  York University
• Christian Mortensen:  The Kemaloh Lun Bawang language of Borneo  (Chair: Robert Blust)
• Emily Jo Noschese:  Younger Deaf People’s Attitudes Toward American Sign Language Structure. (Chair: Andrea Berez-Kroeker and James Woodward)  Wayne State University

MA

• Breneman, Zachary
• Champagne, Sarah (Sar)
• Ono, Suzuka
• Riedeman, Cody

 

2020
PhD

• Anna Belew:  Sociolinguistic documentation of language shift and maintenance in Iyasa (Chairs: Katie Drager & Lyle Campbell).  Endangered Languages Project
• Tobias Bloyd:  Sula: Its Language, Land, and People (Chair: Robert Blust)
• Ivan Bondoc:  Probabilistic and predictive parsing in Tagalog voice alternations (Advisor: Amy Schafer).  University of Toronto
• Sharon Bulalang:  A Grammar of Western Subanon (Chair: Gary Holton).  De La Salle University
• Bryn Hauk:  Deixis and reference tracking in Tsova-Tush (Chair: Andrea Berez-Kroeker).  Google
• Ryan Henke:  The first language acquisition of nominal inflection in Northern East Cree: Possessives and nouns (Chair: Kamil Deen).  University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Andrew Pick:  A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (Advisor: Robert Blust).
• Peter Schuelke:  Grammatical relations and syntactic  ergativity in Roviana, a little-described language of the Solomon Islands (Chair: William O’Grady).  University of North Texas
• Gyu-Ho Shin:  Connecting Input to Comprehension: First Language Acquisition of Active Transitives and Suffixal Passives by Korean-Speaking Preschool Children (Chair: William O’Grady),  University of Illinois Chicago

MA

• Baron, Michelle
• Charest, Jessica
• Nakupueo-Garcia, Keane

 

2019
PhD

• Peter Jian Li Chong:  The Effect of Talker Nativeness on the Perception of Voicing in Syllable-Initial Plosives by American English Monolinguals (Chair: Katie Drager).  Universiti Sains Malaysia
• David Iannucci:  The Hachijō Language of Japan: Phonology and Historical Development (Chair: Lyle Campbell).
• Claire Stabile:  It’s Like, You Know: Variation in the Production and Social Perception of Discourse-Pragmatic Like in Pidgin and Hawai’i English (Chairs: Kamil Deen & Katie Drager).

MA

• Fettes, Evelyn
• Fukasawa, Michiko
• Gier, Healy
• Handley, Noella
• Irihamye, Jennifer
• Ludlow, Sydney
• Merritt, Laurabeth
• Miller, Lucia. Doyon Foundation Mentor-Apprentice Program
• Ono, Christianne
• Ukasick, Trent
• Wainwright, Meena

 

2018
PhD

• Russell Barlow:  A grammar of Ulwa (Chair: Lyle Campbell).  Max Planck Institute
• Yen-Ling Chen:  Proto-Ong-Be (Chair: Lyle Campbell).  Academia Sinica
• Jonny Kim:  Socially-conditioned links between words and phonetic realizations (Chair: Katie Drager).  Pusan National University
• Grant Muagututi’a:  Recovering ergativity in heritage Samoan (Chair: Kamil Deen).  California State University San Marcos
• Colleen O’Brien:  A grammatical description of Kamsá’a, a language isolate of Colombia (Chair: Lyle Campbell).  Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies
• Bradley Rentz:  Pohnpei sohte ehu: A survey- and interview-based approach to language attitudes on Pohnpei (Chair: Andrea Berez-Kroeker).  McREL International
• John Van Way:  The phonetics and phonology of Nyagrong Minyag, an endangered language of western China (Chair: Lyle Campbell).  Scarsdale High School
• Sejung Yang:  Assessing language knowledge in Jeju: Vocabulary and verbal patterns in Jejuo and English (Chair: William O’Grady).  Jeju National University

MA

• Andelian, Ashley
• Chen, Yi-Chun
• Lee, Han
• Mizukami, Micah
• Williams-Solomon, Noah (Ha’a)

 

2017
PhD

• Yen-hsin Victoria Chen:  A reexamination of the Philippine-type voice system and its implications for Austronesian primary-level subgrouping (Chairs: Robert Blust and Shin Fukuda).  Victoria University of Wellington
• Brenda Clark:  A grammatical sketch of Sivia Sign Language (Chairs: James Woodward and William O’Grady).
• Katie Gao:  Dynamics of language contact in China: Ethnolinguistic diversity and variation in Yunan (Chair: Katie Drager).  McREL International
• Raina Heaton:  A typology of antipassives, with special reference to Mayan (Chair: Lyle Campbell).  University of Oklahoma Department of Native American Studies
• Mayumi Oiwa-Bungard:  Morphology and syntax of gerunds in Truku Seediq: A third function of Austronesian “voice” morphology (Chairs: Robert Blust and Yuko Otsuka).
• Eve Koller (Okura):  Language nests and language acquisition: An empirical analysis (Chair: Lyle Campbell).
• Samantha Rarrick:  A tonal grammar of Kere in typological perspective (Chairs: Victoria Anderson and Andrea Berez-Kroeker).  Griffith University
• Melody Ross:  Attitudes toward Tetun Dili, a language of East Timor (Chairs: Andrea Berez-Kroeker and Christina Higgins).  Universität Duisburg-Essen
• Alexander Smith:  The languages of Borneo: A comprehensive classification (Chair: Robert Blust),  National University of Singapore

MA

• Brown, Maggie
• Callendar, Aaron
• Closson, Reuben
• Flavelle, Darren
• Takahashi, Maho
• Thompson, Caitlyn

 

2016
PhD

• Elaine Lau:  Acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese: A multi-factorial analysis (Chairs: Kamil Deen and William O’Grady).  Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Nozomi Tanaka:  An asymmetry in the acquisition of Tagalog relative clauses (Chairs: Kamil Deen and William O’Grady). University of Iowa

MA

• Copeland, Cassidy
• Guan, Xuan
• Hamer, Aaron
• McCullough, John
• Shelby, Ryan
• Smith, Dillon
• Thorne, James
• Uno, Sarah

 

2015
PhD

• James Grama:  Variation and change in Hawaiʻi Creole vowels (Chair: Katie Drager).  Universität Duisburg-Essen
• James Hafford:  Wuvulu grammar and vocabulary (Chair: Yuko Otsuka).  Canada Institute of Linguistics
• Tyler Heston:  The segmental and suprasegmental phonology of Fataluku (Chair: Victoria Anderson).  University of Kansas
• Megan Joelle Kirkley:  Language, identity and non-binary gender in Hawaiʻi (Chair: Katie Drager).  Mass Liberation
• Cheng-Chuen Jonathan Kuo:  Argument alternation and argument structure in symmetrical voice languages: A case study of transfer verbs in Amis, Puyuma and Seediq (Chair: Yuko Otsuka).  Taipei Tech
• Emerson Lopez Odango:  Afféú fangani ‘join together’: A morphophonemic analysis of possessive suffix paradigms and a discourse-based ethnography of the elicitation session in Pakin Lukunosh Mortlockese (Chair: Kenneth Rehg).  Old Dominion University
• Kanjana Thepboriruk:  Thai in diaspora: Language and identity in Los Angeles, California (Chair: Patricia Donegan).  Northern Illinois University
• Mary Walworth:  The language of Rapa Iti: Description of language in change (Chair: Yuko Otsuka).  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

MA

• Awai, Clinton
• Comstock, Bethany
• Kindred, Shaun
• Nicks, Constance
• Park, Kyubyong
• Sawada, Mihoko
• Toler, Nicholas

 

2014
PhD

• Carolina Aragon:  A grammar of Akuntsú, a Tupian language (Chair: Lyle Campbell).  Universidade Federal Da Paraiba
• Yukie Hara:  Sentence comprehension of event structure in English and Japanese: An evaluation of the interaction between grammatical aspect and lexical aspect (Chair: Amy Schafer).
• Jason Jackson:  A grammar of Irarutu, a language of West Papua, Indonesia, with historical analysis (Chair: Robert Blust).
• Kum-Jeong Joo:  Children’s interpretation of the Korean reflexive pronouns caki and caki-casin (Chairs: Kamil Deen and William O’Grady).  Induk University (Seoul)
• Nala Huiying Lee:  A grammar of Baba Malay with sociophonetic considerations (Chair: Lyle Campbell).  National University of Singapore
• On-Soon Lee:  Individual differences in first and second language processing: Evidence from statistical learning (Chairs: William O’Grady and Luca Onnis).  Sunchon National University
• Fumiko Yamada:  Māori as a phrase-based language (Chair: Yuko Otsuka).  Mililani Ike Elementary

MA

• Buritica, Estefania
• Patton, Colleen
• Wilson, Brittany
• Windham, Bonnie
• Yeh, Ya-Chi

 

2013
PhD

• Yumiko Enyo:  Exploring Senpai-Koohai relationships in club meetings in a Japanese university (Chair: Haruko Cook).  Hokkaido University
• Katherine Hardeman:  Gender and second language style: American learners’ perceptions and use of Mandarin Sajiao (Chair: Katie Drager).  University of Central Florida.
• Tatjana Ilic:  Modality and causation in Serbian dative anticausitives: A cross-linguistic perspective (Chair: Kamil Deen),
• Chae-Eun Kim:  Asymmetries in the production of relative clauses: First and second language acquisition (Chair: William O’Grady).  Chosun University
• Insung Ko:  Korean coronal obstruents: A second language articulation of heritage language learners and non-heritage language learners (Chair: William O’Grady and Ho-Min Sohn).  George Washington University
• Jason Lobel:  Philippine and north Bornean languages: Issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction (Chair: Robert Blust).  University of Hawai’i at Manoa
• Hiroko Sato:  Grammar of Kove, an Austronesian language of the West New Britain province, Papua New Guinea (Chair: Robert Blust).
• Diana Stojanovic:  Cross-linguistic comparison of rhythmic and phonotactic similarity (Chair: Ann Peters).

MA

• Clifford, Rebecca
• Joo, Kum Jeong
• Kiesling, Paula
• Kim, Chae-Eun
• Kim, Hyeyeon
• Kim, Sunju
• Locke, Stephanie
• Simpson, Sean

 

2012
PhD

• Kaliko Christopher Baker:  A-class genitive subject effect: A pragmatic and discourse grammar approach to a- and o-class genitive subject selection in Hawaiian (Chair: Yuko Otsuka).  University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• Thiago Chacon:  The phonology and morphology of Kubeo: The documentation, theory and description of an Amazonian language (Chair: Lyle Campbell).  University of Brasilia
• Jin Sun Choe:  Children seem to know raising: Raising and intervention in child language (Chairs: Kamil Deen and William O’Grady).  Korea University of Technology and Education
• S. James Ellis:  Saipan Carolinian, one Chuukic language blended from many (Chair: Kenneth Rehg)
• Akiemi Glenn:  Wayfinding in Pacific landscapes: Negotiating Tokelau linguistic identities in Hawaiʻi (Chair: Yuko Otsuka).  Honolulu-based scholar and culture worker
• Ryoko Hattori:  Preverbal particles in Pingelapese, a language of Micronesia (Chairs: William O’Grady and Kenneth Rehg).  University of Hawai’i at Manoa
• Karen Huang:  A study of neutral-tone syllables in Taiwan Mandarin (Chair: Patricia Donegan).  University of Auckland
• Jin-Sook Kim:  Comprehension of elided phrases in Korean and English: VP-ellipsis, null object constructions, and one-substitution (Chair: William O’Grady).  Sookmyung Women’s University
• Nian Liu:  The effect of naming systems on the acquisition of reasoning about time concepts (Chair: Benjamin Bergen).  University of Oklahoma
• Carl Polley:  Metaphors for happiness in English and Mandarin Chinese (Chair: Benjamin Bergen).  Kapi’olani Community College

 

2011
PhD

• Toshiaki Furukawa:  Humor-ing the local: Multivocal performance in stand-up comedy in Hawaiʻi (Chair: Christina Higgins).  Waseda University
• Sang-Gu Kang:  English Attrition in Korean-English Bilingual Children (Chair: William O’Grady).  Cheongju University
• So Young Kim:  From participles at syntax, semantics and pragmatics interface: The acquisition of only and even in English (Chair: William O’Grady).  Tongmyong University
• John Kupchik:  A grammar of Eastern Old Japanese dialects (Chair: Alexander Vovin).
• Tsai-Hsiu Dorinda Liu:  Complementation in three Formosan languages — Amis, Mayrinax Atayal, and Tsou (Chair: Yuko Otsuka).  Shih Hsin University
• Ai-Yu Apay Tang:  From diagnosis to remedical plan: A psycholinguistic assessment of language shift, L1 proficiency, and language planning in Truku Seediq (Chair: Robert Blust).  National Dong Hwa University
• Jennie Tran:  The acquisition of Vietnamese classifiers (Chair: Ann Peters).  University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• Kaori Ueki:  Prosody and intonation of Western Cham (Chair: Victoria Anderson).

 

2010
PhD

• Hunter Hatfield:  Temporal expectancy and experience of statistics in language processing (Chair: William O’Grady).  University of Otago
• Hye-Young Kwak:  Scope interpretation in first and second language acquisition: Numeral qualifiers and negation (Chair: William O’Grady).  Korea University
• Manami Sato:  Message in the ‘body’: Effects of simulation in sentence production (Chair: Amy Schafer).  Okinawa International University
• Heeyeon Dennison Yoon:  Processing implied meaning through contrastive prosody (Chair: Amy Schafer).  Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

 

2009
PhD

• Elena Indjieva:  Oirat tones and break indices (ToBI) intonational structure of the Oirat language (Chairs:  Kenneth Rehg and Victoria Anderson).
• Sunyoung Lee:  Interpreting scope ambiguity in first and second language processing:  Universal quantifiers and negation (Chair:  William O’Grady)
• Tomoko Miyakoshi:  Investigating ESL learners’ lexical collocations:  The acquisition of verb and noun collocations by Japanese learners of English (Chair:  Ann Peters).  St. Marianna University School of Medicine

 

2008
PhD

• Valerie Guerin:  Discovering Mavea:  Grammar, texts and lexicon (Chair:  Yuko Otsuka).  James Cook University
• Hui-Hua (Jessie) Hwang:  Serial verb constructions in Chinese (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Aya Inoue:  Copula variability in Hawaii Creole (Chairs:  Jefff Siegel and Amy Schafer).  Aichi University of the Arts
• Kyuseek (Hwang) Jackson:  The effect on information structure on Korean scrambling (Chairs:  William O’Grady and Amy Schafer).  Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center
• Jun Nomura:  Japanese postposing as an indicator of emerging discourse (Chairs:  Ann Peters and William O’Grady).  Kyoto Women’s University
• Fabiana Piccolo:  Listener-identified phonetic correlates of gay-, lesbian-, and straight- sounding speech (Chair:  Patricia Donegan).
• Laura C. Robinson:  Dupaningan Agta:  Grammar, vocabulary and texts (Chair:  Alexander Vovin).

 

2007
PhD

• Burgel Rosa Maria Faehndrich:  Sketch grammar of karlong variety of Mongghul, and dialectal survey of Mongghul (Chair:  Alexander Vovin).  Hawai’i Pacific University
• Hyekyung Hwang:  Prosodic phrasing in sentence comprehension:  Evidence from native English speakers and native Korean speaking second language learners of English (Chair:  Amy Schafer).
• Kyung Sook Shin:  Processing of nominal reference in English and Korean:  Data from first and second language acquisition (Chair:  William O’Grady).

 

2006
PhD

• Jee Won Hahn:  Apologizing in Korean (Chair:  Michael Forman).  Pukyong National University
• Mie Hiramoto:  Dialect contact in Hawaii:  The use of Japanese by plantation immigrants (Chair:  Andrew Wong).  National University of Singapore
• Preena Kangkun:  Narratives and identities:  A look at talk among three generations of Chinese-Thai-Cambodian Americans (Chair:  Michael Forman).  Chulalongkorn University
• Laura Sacia:  The translation of “You”:  And examinations of German, Portuguese, and Vietnamese address terms and their treatment in dictionaries and L2 learning materials (Chair:  Michael Forman).  University of California Berkeley
• Naoko Takahashi:  Syntactic and semantic complexity of lexical compounds in analysis of Komu, Dasu, and Saru compounds in Japanese (Chair:  John Haig).  Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
• Kerry Laiana Wong:  Kuhi aku kuhi mai, kuhi hewa e:  He mau loina kuhikuhi akena no ka olelo Hawaii (Chair:  Michael Forman).  University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

 

2005
PhD

• Keira Ballantyne:  Textual structure and discourse prominence in Yapese narrative (Chair:  Benjamin Bergen).  Center for Applied Linguistics
• Sang-Yee Cheon:  Production and perception of phonological contrasts in second language acquisition:  Korean and English fricatives (Chair:  Ho-min Sohn).  University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• Barry Michael Cowan:  The language or corporate names: Historical, social, and linguistic factors in the evolution of technology corporation naming practices (Chair:  Michael Forman).  VmWare
• Atiqa Hachimi:  Dialect leveling, maintenance, and urban identity in Morocco Fessi immigrants in Casablanca (Chairs:  Miriam Meyerhoff and Michael Forman).  University of Toronto Scarborough
• Jae Yeon Kim:  L2 acquisition of transitivity alternations and of the entailment relations for causaltives by Korean speakers of English and English speakers of Korean (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Tomoko Kozasa:  An acoustic and perceptual investigation of vowel length in Japanese and Pohnpeian (Chair:  Kenneth Rehg).
• In-Kyu Park:  First language phonological processes and morphophonological rules in second language acquisition:  Korean learners of English (Chair:  Patricia Donegan).
• Sumittra Suraretdecha:  Thai-English code-switching:  A Hawaii case study (Chair:  Michael Forman).  Mahidol University
• Napasri Timyam:  The interaction of linguistic, pragmatic and social factors:  The case of datives and ditransitives in Thai (Chairs:  Benjamin Bergen and William O’Grady).  Kasetsart University

 

2004
PhD

• Mijung Lee:  Resultative constructions in Korean (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Hsiu-Chuan Liao:  Transitivity and ergativity in Formosan and Philippine languages (Chair:  Lawrence Reid).  National Tsing Hua University
• Shan Shan Wang:  An ergative view of Thao syntax (Chair:  Lawrence Reid).  National Taiwan University
• Takako Yasuta:  Stop perception in second language phonology:  Perception of English and Korean stops by Japanese speakers (Chair:  Patricia Donegan).  Fukushima Medical University

 

2003
PhD

• Te-Fang Hua:  The acquisition of English speech rhythm by adult Chinese ESL and EFL learners (Chair:  Ann Peters).
• Terry Dean Klafehn:  Emergent properties of Japanese verbal inflections (Chair:  Ann Peters).
• Sun-Young Lee:  Argument/adjunct asymmetry in the acquisition of inversion in WH-questions by English speaking and Korean learners of English frequency account vs structural account (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Michiko Nakamura:  Processing of multiple filler-gap dependencies in Japanese (Chairs:  William O’Grady and Amy Schafer).
• Jung Ran Park:  A study of selected Korean pragmatic markers synchronic and diachronic perspectives (Chair:  Ho-min Sohn).  Drexel University
• Marilyn Plumlee:  Making do with what you’ve got:  The use of prosody as a linguistic resource in second language narratives (Chair:  Michael Forman).  Nazarbayev University
• Min Sun Song:  The first and second language acquisition of negative polarity items in English and Korean (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Chi Chung Aaron Tsang:  Transitivity in Cantonese (Chair:  William O’Grady).  Calvary Hawaii

 

2002
PhD

• Moriyo Shimabukuro:  A reconstruction of the accentual history of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages (Chair:  Leon Serafim (EALL)).  University of the Ryukyus
• Nanette Louise Wichman:  Meaning in legal discourse beyond the lexicon (Chair:  Michael Forman).

 

2001
PhD

• Jung-Hsing Chang:  The syntax of event structure in Chinese (Chair:  William O’Grady).  National Chung Cheng University
• Lan-Hsin Chang:  Discourse effects on the second language acquisition of Enlgish and Chinese dative structures (Chair:  Robert Bley-Vroman).  National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology
• Yu-Ling (Christie) Chang:  Bo-Po-Mo for ABC:  Teaching the Mandarin phonetic alphabet to American-born Chinese children at Chinese language schools in Hawai’i (Chair:  Michael Forman).  Council on International Educational Exchange
• Masako Hirano Izutani:  The acquisition of Japanese passives (Chair:  Ann Peters).
• Kyoung-Kook Kim:  Korean negation and the licensing condition on negative (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Nobuko Koyama-Murakami:  Grounding and deixis:  A study of Japanese first-person narrative (Chair:  Michael Forman).  UC Davis
• John Francis Mayer:  Code-switching in Samoan:  T-style and K-style (Chair:  Albert Schutz).  University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• Waiching Enid Mok:  Chinese sound symbolism:  A phonological perspective (Chair:  Patricia Donegan).

 

2000
PhD

• Mark Alves:  A Pacoh analytic grammar (Chair:  Lawrence Reid).  Montgomery College
• Katsura Aoyama:  A psycholinguistic perspective on Finnish and Japanese prosody perception, production and child acquisition of consonantal quality distinctions (Chair:  Ann Peters).  University of North Texas
• Tadashi Baika:  Verb classes and split intransitivity in Japanese and English (Chair:  John Haig).  Tokiwa University
• Sukenari Hino:  Grammaticalization of Japanese pseudo nouns and auxiliary verbs:  A morphosyntactic and semantic approach (Chair:  Alexander Vovin). Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University
• Jya Lin Hwang:  On grammaticalization in serial verb construction (Chair:  Anatole Lyovin).  Chinese Culture University
• Ritsuko Kikusawa:  Reconstructing the actancy systems of proto-central Pacific and its daughter languages (Chair:  Lawrence Reid).  National Museum of Ethnology
• Soichi Kozai:  Viewpoint distribution and transitivity in Japanese and English (Chair:  Ann Peters).  Kansai Gaidai University
• Soo-Ok Kweon:  The acquisition of English contraction constraints by advanced Korean learners of English experimental studies on wanna contraction and auxiliary construction (Chair:  Robert Bley-Vroman).  Pohang University of Science and Technology
• Miseon Lee:  On agrammatic deficits in English and Korean (Chair:  William O’Grady).  Hanyang University
• Chin-An Arnold Li:  Lexical Change and variation in Taiwanese literary texts, 1916-1998-A computer-assisted corpus analysis (Chair:  Robert Cheng).

 

1999
PhD

• Farooq Babrakzai:  Topics in Pashto syntax (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).  Defense Language Institute
• Sookeun Cho:  The acquisition of relative clauses:  Experimental studies on Korean (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Shawn Michael Clankie:  On brand name change:  A theory of genericization (Chair:  Michael Forman).   Otaru University of Commerce
• Achmad Effendi Kadarisman:  Wedding narratives as verbal art performance:  Explorations in Javanese poetics (Chair:  Michael Forman).  Universitas Negeri Malang
• Michael David Larish:  The position of Moken and Moklen within the Austronesian language family (Chair:  Lawrence Reid).  Hawai’i Community College
• Susan Louise McClintock:  Consonant sequence constraints in Fijian and Micronesian languages (Chair:  Kenneth Rehg).
• Marc Hideo Miyake:  The phonology of eighth century Japanese revisited:  Another reconstruction based upon written records (Chair:  Alexander Vovin).    The British Museum
• Katsuhiro Ota:  Aspects of case-marking and transitivity in Polynesian (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).
• Sarka Simackova:  Prosodically motivated allophonic processes in speech of Czech learners of English (Chair:  Patricia Donegan).  Palacky University Olomouc
• Ryo Evans Stanwood:  On the adequacy of Hawai’i Creole English (Chair:  David Stampe).
• Takaaki Suzuki:  Two aspects of Japanese case in acquisition (Chair:  William O’Grady).  Kyoto Sangyo University
• Xinhua Wu:  A corpus-based construction grammar analysis of the Mandarin BA constructions (Chair:  Robert Bley-Vroman).

 

1998
PhD

• Blaine Philip Erickson:  The origins and development of Japanese mora nasals (Chair:  Patricia Donegan).  Defense Language Institute
• Kihong Lim:  A split analysis of Caki-binding in Korean (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Shinya Matsunami:  Pitch patterns of Etal Mortlockese (Chair:  Patricia Donegan).
• Richard Jon Nivens:  Borrowing vs code-switching:  Malay insertions in the conversations of West Tarangan speakers of the Aru Islands of Maluku, Eastern Indonesia (Chair:  James Collins (HIPL).
• Sang-Suk Oh:  A syntactic and semantic study of KOrean auxiliaries:  A grammaticalization perspective (Chair:  Ho-min Sohn (EALL)).
• I-Ru Su:  Transfer sentence processing strategies:  A comparison of L2 learners of Chinese and English (Chair:  Ann Peters).  National Tsing Hua University
• Elzbieta Anna Thurgood:  A description of nineteenth century Baba Malay:  A Malay variety influenced by language shift (Chair:  Kenneth Rehg).  California State University Chico (Emeritus)
• Fumio Usami:  Consonant graduation (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).
• Manabu Watanabe:  A mental space analysis of the speaker’s linguistic reality (Chair:  Patricia Lee).
• Sing-Ping (Cathy) Wong:  The acquisition of Cantonese noun phrases (Chair:  William O’Grady).  Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Yun Xiao:  An investigation of the syntactic development of school-age Chinese-speaking children learning English:  The role of topic prominence (Chair:  Ann Peters).

 

1997
PhD

• Varisa Osatananda:  Tone in Vientiane Lao (Chair:  Kenneth Rehg).  Thammasat University
• Titima Suthiwan:  Malay lexical elements in Thai (Chair:  James Collins (HIPL).  National University of Singapore

 

1996
PhD

• Gregory Lee Carter:  The Hawaiian copula verbs he, ‘o, and I, as used in the publications of native writers of Hawaiian:  A study in Hawaiian language and literature (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).
• Shu-Hui Eileen Chen:  Pragmatic comprehension:  A developmental study of Mandarin-speaking children’s strategies for interpretation of given and new information (Chair:  Ann Peters).  National Taipei University of Education
• Feng-Sheng Richard Hung:  Prosody and the acquisition of grammatical morphemes in Chinese languages (Chair:  Ann Peters).  National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology
• Seiichiro Inaba:  Initial binary feet and surface ternary feet in metrical theory:  An integrated computational analysis of loan words and nominal compounds in Japanese (Chair:  Kenneth Rehg).  San Jose State University  
• Mohamed Subakir Mohd-Yasin:  Shift in language allegiance:  The Javanese in Malaysia (Chair:  James Collins).  Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
• Natthaporn Panpothong:  A pragmatic study of verbal irony in Thai (Chair:  Patricia Lee).  Chulalongkorn University
• Chhany Sak-Humphry:  Khmer nouns and noun phrases:  A dependency grammar analysis (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).  University of Hawai’i Mānoa
• Hideaki Sugai:  A neural network application in Thai text-speech conversion program (Chair:  David Stampe).  Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Naoko Yoshinaga:  WH-Questions:  A comparative study of their form and acquisition in English and Japanese (Chair:  William O’Grady).  Hirosaki Gakuin University
• Seokhoon You:  Argument licensing in complex verbal constructions in Korean (Chair:  Ho-min Sohn (EALL)).  Korea University

 

1995
PhD

• Fred Einar Anderson:  Classroom discourse and language socialization in a Japanese elementary school setting:  An ethnographic-linguistics study (Chair:  Michael Forman).  Kansai University (Emeritus)
• Sungdai Cho:  On verbal intransitivity in Korean with special reference to middle constructions (Chair:  William O’Grady).  Binghamton University
• Josie Paz Clausen:  The taxonomy, semantics and syntax of Ilokano adverbial clauses (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Matazo Izutani:  Against a subjacency account of movement and empty categories in Japanese (Chair:  William O’Grady).   Tokyo Medical and Dental University
• Seongchan Kim:  The acquisition of WH-questions in English and Korean (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Cheung Sheung (Sam) Leung:  The development of aspect markers in a Cantonese-speaking child between the ages of 21 months and 45 months (Chair:  Ann Peters).  Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong
• Hirokuni Masuda:  Verse analysis and its theoretical contribution to the study of the genesis of Hawai’i Creole English (Chair:  Michael Forman).
• Maryann Elizabeth Overstreet:  The form and function of general extenders in English interactive discourse (Chair:  Jack Bilmes (Anthropology)).  University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• Uri Tadmor:  Language contact and systemic restructuring:  The Malay dialect of Nonthaburi, Central Thailand (Chair:  James Collins (IPLL)).  Brill Publishing
• Chin-Chin Janet Tseng:  Taiwanese prosody:  An integrated analysis of acoustic and perceptual data (Chair:  Robert Cheng (EALL)).  National Taiwan Normal University
• Yoshie Yamashita:  The emergence of syntactic categories evidence from the acquisition of Japanese (Chair:  William O’Grady).  Meiji University

 

1994
PhD

• Mi-Ho Choo:  A unified account of null pronouns in Korean (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Paul Walter Gracie:  Foreigner talk in urban Malaysia (Chair:  James Collins (IPLL)).
• Kitima Indrambarya:  Subcategorization of verbs in Thai:  A lexicase dependency approach (Chair;  Stanley Starosta).  Kasetsart University
• Narahiko Inoue:  Ways of debating in Japan:  Academic debate in English-speaking societies (Chair;  Michael Forman).  Kyushu University (Emeritus)
• Mariana Audrey Marguerite Maduell:  On-stage calls:  An ethnolinguistic analysis of spoken language in professional flamenco performance (Chair:  Michael Forman).
• Amanda Scott:  Chinese written language in Hawai’i:  The linguistic, social, and cultural significance for immigrant families (Chair:  Donald Topping).
• Craig Alan Volker:  Nalik grammar (New Ireland, Papua New Guinea) (Chair:  Michael Forman).  James Cook University

 

1993
PhD

• Fumiko Fukuta Earns:  Language adaptation:  European language influence on Japanese syntax (Chair:  George Grace).  University of Northern Colorado
• Rueih-Lirng Sharon Fahn:  The acquisition of Mandarin Chinese BA-construction (Chair:  William O’Grady).  Tamkang University
• Robert Edward Gibson:  Palauan causatives and passives:  An incorporation analysis (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Rong-Rong Kao:  Grammatical relations and anaphoric structures in Mandarin Chinese (Chair:  William O’Grady).
• Jung Ying Lu-Chen:  Bilingual code-switching between Mandarin and English:  A case study (Chair:  George Grace).  Punahou School
• Deborah Ann Masterson:  A comparison of grammaticality evaluation measurements:  Testing native speakers of English & Korean (Chair:  Robert Bley-Vroman).  University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (Retired)
• Yutaka Sato:  Complex predicate formation with verbal nouns in Japanese and Korean:  Argument transfer at LF (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).  International Christian University
• Marion Sachiyo Okawa Sonomura:  Idiomaticity in basic writing:  Formulas and idioms in the writing of some multilingual and creole speaking community college students (Chair:  Patricia Lee).  BYU Hawaii (retired)
• Hisami Konishi Springer:  Perspective shifting constructions in Japanese:  A lexicase dependency analysis (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).
• Penglin Wang:  Description of Dagur verb morphology (Chair:  Anatole Lyovin).  Central Washington University
• Supriya Wilawan:  A reanalysis of so-called serial verb construction in Thai, Khmer, Mandarin Chinese and Yoruba (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).
• Sung Kyu Yun:  Honorific agreement (Chair:  Patricia Lee).

 

1992
PhD

• Meichih Laura Chang:  A prosodic account of tone, stress and tone sandhi in Chinese languages (Chair:  Kenneth Rehg),
• Hysook Rhee Jeong:  A valency subcategorization of verbs in Korean and Russian:  Lexicase dependency approach (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).
• Weondon Jeong:  Word formation and interfact phenomena in the Korean lexicon (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee)
• Kazue Kanno:  Japanese passives and related constructions (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).  University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
• Haeyeon Kim:  Clause combining in discourse and grammar:  An analysis of some Korean clausal connectives in discourse (Chair:  Michael Forman).
• Dong Jae Lee:  Korean verbal morphology: Inflectional affixes are heads (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).  University of Hawai’i at Manoa (retired)
• Francis Lynn Lindsey Jr.:  A computational model for the testing of linguistic hypotheses concerning language change (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).
• Siew-Ai Ng:  Verbal subcategorization and derivation in Singapore Mandarin:  A dependency grammar analysis (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).
• Thomas Neil Robb:  Aspects of the pitch-accent system of Ibuki-Jima (Chair:  Timothy Vance (EALL)).  Kyoto Sangyo University
• Kathryn Elizabeth Wolfe-Quintero:  The representation and acquisition of the lexical structure of English dative verbs:  Experimental studies of native English speakers and Japanese and Chinese adult learners of English (Chair:  Robert Bley-Vroman).  University of South Florida

 

1991
PhD

• Philip Andrew Bralich:  X-bar theory and morphological juncture:  Chair:  Derek Bickerton).
• Hsun-Huei Claire Chang:  Interaction between syntax and morphology:  A case study of Mandarin Chinese (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).  National ChengChi University (retired)
• Bruce Wayne Horton:  The lexicography of English copula verbs (Chair:  Patricia Lee).
• Jeong-ryeol Jay Kim:  A lexical-functional grammar account of light verbs (Chair:  David Stampe).  Korean National University of Education
• Keon Soo Lee:  Multiple accusative constructions in KOrean and the stratal uniqueness law (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).
• Sayhyon Park:  Analysis of Korean intonation (Chiar:  P. Gregory Lee).
• Takako Unetani:  Predication in Japanese (Chiar:  P. Gregory Lee).

 

1990
PhD

• Margaret Jean Florey:  Language shift:  Changing patterns of language allegiance in Western Seram (Chair:  James Collins (IPLL).
• One-Soon Her:  Grammatical functions and verb subcategorization in Mandarin Chinese (Chiar:  Robert Cheng (EALL)).  Tunghai University
• Duk Soo Park:  Lexicon and syntax in Korean phonology (Chiar;  P. Gregory Lee).  University of Sydney (retired).
• Nitalu Sroka:  The syllable-evidence from Icelandic skaldic poetry (Chair:  Patricia Lee).
• Ching-Yuan Kenneth Tsai:  Studies in interrogatives in Chinese (Chair:  Patricia Lee).

 

1989
PhD

• Nagiko Lee:  Complementation in Japanese:  Lexicase analysis (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).
• Anita Clara Nordbrock:  The development of speech interaction:  A case study of turn taking, communicative sounds, imitation, and repetition in the language acquisition of a child from eight months to two years of age (Chair:  Michael Forman).
• Saranya Savetamalya:  Thai nouns and noun phrases:  A lexicase analysis (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).

 

1988
PhD

 

• Young Seok Choi:  A study of ascension constructions in Korean (Chair:  Jeanne Gibson).
• Gyung Ran Kim:  The pitch-accent system of the Taegu dialect of Korean with emphasis on tone sandhi at the phrasal level (Chair:  Anatole Lyovin).
• Sung Ock Sohn:  Tense and aspect in Korean (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).    University of California Los Angeles

 

1987
PhD

• Louise Pagotto:  Veep subcategorization and verb derivation in Marshallese:  A lexicase analysis (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).  Kapi’olani Community College (retired)
• Hiroshi Sugita:  A study of Trukese possessive expressions (Chair:  George Grace).

 

1986
PhD

• Eileen Ann Cain:  Lexical retrieval disturbances in a conduction aphasic (Chair:  Ann Peters).  Leeward Community College
• Esme Hoban:  The promise of animal language research (Chair:  Derek Bickerton).
• Katherine Hubbard:  The syntax of English temporal constructions by after, before, since, until, when and while (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).
• Anne Geok-In-Sim Pakir:  A linguistic investigation of Baba Malay (Chair:  George Grace).  National University of Singapore
• Kenneth Lee Rehg:  The phonology of Ponapean vowels (Chair:  Byron Bender).  University of Hawai’i (retired)

 

1985
PhD

• Elaine M. Good:  Clause-final determiners in Kosraean (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).
• Abdu Mtajuka Khamisi:  Swahili verb derivation (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).
• Amara Prasithrathsint:  Change in the passive construction in written Thai during the Bangkok period (Chair:  George Grace).
• Lertdow Sayankena:  Verbs in Phuthai:  A lexicase analysis (Cahir:  Stanley Starosta).
• Robert Benjamin Wilson:  The emergence of the semantics of tense and aspect in the language of a visually impaired child (Chair:  Ann Peters).

 

1984
PhD

• Martin Combs:  Glides:  The problem of definition and analysis, including a discussion of the treatment of semivowel guides in Micronesia and an acoustic phonetic analysis of glides in selected Trukic dialects (Chair:  Iovanna Condax).
• Steven Mark Egesdal:  Stylized characters’ speech in Thompson salish narrative (Chair:  Laurence Thompson).  Carlsmith Ball
• Gregg Jonathan Kinkley:  Structure and development of copular verbs in Tibetan (Chair:  Anatole Lyovin).
• Kimie Miyazaki:  Some dimensions of Japanese verb semantics in relation to translation from English (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).
• Timothy Montler:  Saanich morphology and phonology (Chair:  Laurence Thompson).  University of North Texas (Emeritus)
• Sirinee Santaputra:  Structure and functions of questions in Thai (Chair:  Patricia Lee).
• Rumiko Shinzato:  Epistemology in linguistic analysis:  A case study from Japanese and Okinawan (Chair:  Laurence Thompson).  Georgia Institute of Technology (Emeritus)
• Lily I-Wen Su:  The representations of temporality in extended text:  A study of Pride and Prejudice (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).  National Taiwan University

 

1983
PhD

• Kannikar Tongprayoon Chomaitong:  An outline of syncrhonic Thai phonology (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).
• Frederick Henry Jackson:  The internal and external relationships of the Trukic languages of Micronesia (Chair:  Byron Bender).
• Susanne Jeannette (Hancock) Young:  The medio-passive R-forms in Indo-European (Chair:  Gordon Fairbanks).

 

1982
PhD

• Melvin Joel Bradshaw Jr.:  Word order change in Papua New Guinea Austronesian languages (Chair:  George Grace).  University of Hawai’i Press (Retired)
• Leokhar Chan:  A study of information structure and sentence mood in Hokkien syntax (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).
• Teresa M. Chen:  Verbal constructions and verbal classification in Nataoran-Amis (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).
• Choon-Hak Cho:  A study of Korean pragmatics:  Deixis and politeness (Chair:  Patricia Lee).
• Peansiri (Vongvipanond) Ekniyom:  A study of informational structuring in Thai sentences (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).  Dhurakij Pundit University
• Barbara Jo Easton:  Blended beginnings:  Connections and the effects of editing a case of academic “Japanese English” (Chair:  Michael Forman).
• Thomas George Huebner:  A longitudinal analysis of the acquisition of English by an adult Hmong speaker (Chair:  Derek Bickerton).  San Jose State University (Emeritus)
• Suzanne B.K. Scollon:  Reality set, socialization and linguistic convergence (Chair:  George Grace).  Thammasat University (Retired)
• Takashi Sugimoto:  Transformational montague grammatical studies of Japanese (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).  Osaka University
• Eiko Niihara Uehara:  Some informational dimensions of embedding in Japanese (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).

 

1981
PhD

• Sung-Yun Bak:  Studies in Korean syntax:  Ellipsis, topic and relative constructions (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).
• Sagarmal Gupta:  Restrictive relative clauses in Hindi:  A topic comment analysis (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).  Sobhasaria Group of Institutions (Emeritus)
• Kyung-Ja Park Hahn:  The development of negation in one Korean child (Chair:  Michael Forman).
• Edward Francis Klein:  The acquisition of English in Hawai’i by Korean adolescent immigrants:  A longitudinal study of verbal auxiliary development (Chair:  Derek Bickerton).  Hawai’i Pacific University (Retired)

 

1980
PhD

• John Andrew Bisazza:  The processing complexity of nouns and verbs:  Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic issues (Chair:  Ann Peters).
• Linda L. Kuntzman:  A study of English passives (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).
• Frantisek Lichtenberk:  A grammar of Manam (Chair:  George Grace).
• R. Edward Smith:  Natural phonology of Japanese (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).
• William Henry Wilson:  Proto-Polynesian possessive marking (Chair:  Irwin Jay Howard).  University of Hawai’i Hilo

 

1979
PhD

• Vaneeta Gail Acson:  A diachronic view of the case-marking systems in Greek:  A localistic-lexicase analysis (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).
• Charles Morrison DeWolf:  Sentential predicates:  A cross-linguistic analysis (Chair:  Roderick Jacobs).  Keio University (Emeritus)
• Paul Alban Geraghty:  Topics in Fijian language history (Chair:  Albert Schutz).  University of the South Pacific
• David Chen-Ching Li:  A syntactic and semantic analysis of Taiwanese modality (Chair:  Robert Cheng (EALL))  Shih Hsin University (Retired)
• Richard McGinn:  Outline of Rejang syntax (Chair:  Donald Topping).
• April R. Purcell:  Variation in speech by children in Hawaii (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).
• Tamati M. Reedy:  Complex sentence formation in Maori (Chair:  Andrew Pawley).  University of Waikato (Emeritus)
• Shigeo Tonoike:  Complementation and case particles in Japanese (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).  The Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies

 

1978
PhD

• Arthur Grayson Crisfield:  Sound symbolism and the expressive words of Lao (Chair:  Fang-Kuei Li)
• Geoffrey Steven Nathan:  The syntax and semantics of the English existential construction (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).  Wayne State University (Emeritus)
• James Tyrone Patrie:  The genetic relationship of the Ainu language (Chair:  Anatole Lyovin).
• William Peet Jr.:  Relativaization in a Creole continuum (Chair:  Derek Bickerton).
• Alison Watt Schilling:  Some non-standard features of Bahamian dialect syntax (Chair:  Derek Bickerton).

 

1977
PhD

• Carol Jean Harmon:  Kagayanen and the Monobo subgroup of Philippine languages (Chair:  Lawrence Reid).
• Sheldon Philip Harrison:  Some problems in the history of Mokilese morpho-syntax (Chair:  George Grace).
• Susan Joyce Iwamura:  Games and other routines in the conversation of pre-school children:  A case study in developmental sociolinguistics (Chair:  Ann Peters).
• Karen Jensen Neff:  Theories of the syntax of aspect (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).  Microsoft Research (Emeritus)
• Sachiko Oda:  The syntax of Pulo Annian, a nuclear Micronesian language (Chair:  Byron Bender).

 

1976
PhD

• Videa Pena De Guzman:  Syntactic derivation of Tagalog verbs (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).  University of Calgary (Emeritus)
• Heng-Hsiung Jeng:  Topic and focus in Bunun (Chair:  Lawrence Reid).
• Tadashi Kimura:  The syntactic and semantic structure of Japanese adverbials (Chair:  Lewis Josephs).
• Peter C. Lincoln:  Describing Banoni, an Austronesian language of southwest Bougainville (Chair:  Albert Schutz).  University of Hawai’i at Manoa

 

1975
PhD

• Marybeth Clark:  Coverbs and case in Vietnamese (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).
• Emily A. Hawkins:  Hawaiian sentence structures (Chair:  Byron Bender).  University of Hawai’i at Manoa (Retired)
• Kay Ikranagara:  Melayu Betawi grammar (Chair:  George Grace).
• Carol Odo:  Phonological processes in the English dialect of Hawaii (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).

 

1974
PhD

• Robert Andrew Blust:  The Proto-North Sarawak vowel deletion hypothesis (Chair:  George Grace).
• Pranee Kullavanuava:  Transitive verbs in Thai (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).  Chulalongkorn University
• Kee-Dong Lee:  Kusaiean verbal derivation rules (Chair:  Byron Bender).
• John Dominic Lynch:  Lenakel phonology (Chair:  George Grace).
• James V. Powell:  Proto-Chimakuan:  Materials for a reconstruction (Chair:  Laurence Thompson).  University of British Columbia (Emeritus)
• Young-Key Kim Renaud:  Korean consonantal phonology (Chair:  Irwin Jay Howard). George Washington University (Emeritus) 
• Ronald Thomas Scollon:  One child’s language from one to two:  The origins of construction (Chair:  Michael Forman).

 

1973
PhD

• James A. Gibson:  Shuswap grammatical structure (Chair:  Laurence Thompson).
• Paul Jen-Kuei Li:  Rukai structure (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).  Academia Sinica
• Anthony Mattina:  Colville grammatical structure (Chair:  Laurence Thompson).  University of Montana
• Teresita V. Ramos:  The case system of Tagalog verbs (Chair:  Howard McKaughan).  University of Hawai’i at Manoa (Retired)

 

1972
PhD

• Richard Anthony Benton:  Phonotactics of Pangasinan (Chair:  Howard McKaughan).  University of Waikato
• Barry Frederick Carlson:  A grammar of Spokane:  A Salish language of Eastern Washington (Chair:  Laurence Thompson).  University of Victoria (Retired)
• Richard R. Day:  Patterns of variation in copula and tense in the Hawaiian post-creole continuum (Chair:  P. Gregory Lee).  University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (Emeritus)
• Helen Irene Wilson:  The phonology and syntax of Palauan verb affixes (Chair:  Lewis Josephs).
• Elmer Paul Hinson Wolfenden:  A description of Hiligaynon phrase and clause constructions (Chair:  Howard McKaughan).
• In-Seok Yang:  Korean syntax:  Case markers, delimiters, complementation and relativization (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).

 

1971
PhD

• Timothy McLemore Manley:  Outline of Sre structure (Chair:  Laurence Thompson).
• Leatrice Taeko Mirikitani:  Kampampangan syntactic processes (Chair:  Howard McKaughan).
• Choon-Kyu Oh:  Aspects of Korean syntax (Chair:  Charles-James Bailey).
• Harvey Martin Taylor:  Case in Japanese (Chair:  Stanley Starosta).

 

1970
PhD

• Gloria Glissmeyer:  A tagmemic analysis of Hawaii English clauses (Chair:  Howard McKaughan).
• Bruce Arthur Sommer:  Kunuen syntax:  A generative view (Chair:  Howard McKaughan).

 

1969
PhD

• Philip Norman Jenner:  Affixation in modern Khmer (Chair:  Laurence Thompson).
• Ho-Min Sohn:  An outline of Ulithian grammar (Chair:  Byron Bender).  University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (Emeritus)

 

1968
PhD

• Thomas Hughes Roberts:  Some aspects of Chinese grammar:  A stratificational approach (Chair:  Laurence Thompson).

 

1967
PhD

• Richard Well Elkins:  A reference grammar of Bukidnon Manobo (Philippines) (Chair:  Howard McKaughan).
• Joseph Francis Kess:  Syntactic features of Tagalog verbs (Chair:  Howard McKaughan).  University of Victoria (Emeritus)

 

1966
PhD

• Lawrence Andrew Reid:  Ivatan syntax (Chair:  Howard McKaughan).  University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (Emeritus)