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) National Research and Innovation Agency (Indonesia)
- 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). Currently Senior Lecturer (equivalent of associate professor in North American institutions) in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at 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)
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