Alumni List

2026
PhD

Blaine Billings: Documentary Lexicography: A Case Study of Building a Nasal Dictionary
Emma Breslow: Diversity in a Diasporic Language: Sociolinguist Variation in Minority Yiddish Contexts
Noelani Kong-Johnson: Managing Competition in Language: Neurodevelopment of Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in Bilinguals and Monolinguals
Josiah Murphy: Woleaian Language Embodied in Watercraft at Home and Abroad
Sebi Ohara-Saft: Experimental Approaches to Assessing Vitality for Endangered Languages: The Case of Jejueo
Henry Osborne: A Spatial Grammar of Kubulau Fijian
Anu Reddy: Argument Identification in Child and Heritage Child Marathi
Carolyn Siegman: Sound Change Mechanisms in Heritage Korean Spoken in Honolulu

2025
PhD

Youngin Lee: Processing of Empty Subjects: Evidence from Control Constructions
Clemens (Clé) Mayer: A Grammar of Woleaian
Kathering Strong: Sociophonetic Variation in Ende
Gregory Vondiziano: The Syntax of Voice and Case in Yami An Austronesian Language of Taiwan
Danielle (Dannii) Yarbrough: The Path of Decolonization for Linguistics: A Qualitative Analysis of Insights from Indigenous Scholars

Cornwell, Lauren
Dossett, Stephanie
Kennedy, Jared
Kolenskaia, Irina
Lapinson, Victoria
Orendain, Kevin
Sawyer, Gillian

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
Thomas Dougherty: The Origins of Yapese Glottalization
Jacob Hakim: A Prosodic Description of Nasal: Investigating Stress and Intonation in an Endangered Sumatran Language
Yuri Lee: Acquisition of Information Structure in Korean: A Perception-Based Approach
Kai-Ying Lin: On Mandarin Unaccusativity: A Perspective From Language Acquisition. Academia Sinica
Akari Ohba: Acquiring the Unobservable: Empathy Verbs, Belief Verbs, and Long-Distance Binding of Zibun "self" in Child Japanese. Yamaguchi University
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. Yale University

Archbold, Liam
Asperheim, Margaret
Demmon, Tyler
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

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

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

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

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).

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

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), Fudan University

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

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 Kirtley: 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

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

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).

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). Kwansei Gakuin 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).
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 English 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).
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).
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).
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).
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)