Linguistics PhD awards 2008-2025
Linguistics PhD awards 2008-2025
2008 - 2025
| Year | Student Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
| 2025 | |||
| Youngjin Kim | On the argument structure of object experiencer verbs | Hans van de Koot | |
| 2024 | |||
| Wenkai Tay | Resultative expressions in Mandarin Chinese | Hans van de Koot | |
| Stefano Castiglione | A Biclausal Analysis of Italian Right Dislocation | Ad Neeleman | |
| Xinxin Yan | From Likeness to Meaning: A Relevance-Theoretic Account of Similes and Other Comparison Statements | Robyn Carston | |
| Diane Stoianov | Marking a scene: argument structure in Cena, a young sign language | Andrew Nevins | |
| 2023 | |||
| Ruoying Zhao | Definiteness effects and competition in tenses and aspects | Yasutada Sudo | |
| Elizabeth Coulter | "Always speaking": a relevance-theoretic approach to statutory interpretation | Robyn Carston | |
| Hanbyul Song | Learning Probabilistic Patterns: Influence of Homophony, L1 and Frequency | Jamie White | |
| 2022 | |||
| Yan Zhang | No loitering: on the omission of external arguments in Mandarin Chinese | Hans van de Koot | |
| Edoardo Canonica | Borderline Contradictions | Nathan Klinedinst | |
| Anna Grabovac | Maximizing the concord domain: Concord as spellout in Slavic | Ad Neeleman | |
| 2021 | |||
| Elliot Martin Murphy | Linguistic Representation and Processing of Copredication | Wing Yee Chow | |
| Yara Alshaalan | Is there structure at the ellipsis site? Evidence from Saudi Arabic sluicing | Klaus Abels | |
| Josephine Bowerman | Referential metonymy: Cognitive bases and communicative functions | Robyn Carston | |
| Gregor Williamson | Worlds of the Future: Modality & Future Licensing at the Syntax-Semantics Interface | Hans van de Koot & Yasu Sudo | |
| 2020 | |||
| Patrick Elliott | Elements of clausal embedding | Klaus Abels | |
| Alina Konradt | Beyond Surface Constituency: Exploring the Nature of Syntactic Priming through Evidence from English- and Russian-speaking Adults and Children | Kriszta Szendroi | |
| Jane Middleton | *ABA syncretism patterns in pronominal morphology | Ad Neeleman | |
| 2019 | |||
| Caterina Paolazzi | Processing passive sentences in English: A cross-methodological study | Andrea Santi | |
| Michael Mourounas | Nominalisation and inherent control | Hans van de Koot | |
| Florian Breit | Welsh mutation and strict modularity | John Harris | |
| Emilia Molimpakis | Accepting preposition-stranding under sluicing cross-linguistically; a noisy-channel approach | Andrea Santi | |
| 2018 | |||
| Irene Symeonidou | The development of theory of mind and pragmatics in adolescents | Richard Breheny | |
| Ezekiel Panitz | Argument ellipsis and strong islands | Klaus Abels | |
| Chao Sun | Scalar implicature: Gricean reasoning and local enrichment | Richard Breheny | |
| Giulio Dulcinati | Cooperation and pragmatic inferences | Nausika Pouscoulous | |
| Elizabeth Eden | Measuring phonological distance between languages | John Harris | |
| Lewis Pollock | Concepts and concreteness in psycholinguistics | Robyn Carston | |
| 2017 | |||
| Zoë Belk | Attributes of attribution | Ad Neeleman | |
| Jiri Kaspar | Syncretism: A case study of the particle že in Czech | Klaus Abels | |
| 2016 | |||
| Ya-Fang Lu | Tone processing and the acquisition of tone in Mandarin- and English-speaking typically developing children and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder | Kriszta Szendroi | |
| Nicholas Neasom | Against synchronic chain shifting | John Harris | |
| 2015 | |||
| Diana Mazzarella | Inferential pragmatics and epistemic vigilance | Robyn Carston | |
| Misako Tanaka | Scoping out of adjuncts: evidence for the parallelism between QR and WH-movement | Ad Neeleman | |
| Kevin Tang | Naturalistic speech misperception | Andrew Nevins | |
| Catalina Urquiza Arribas | Constructing concepts and word meanings: the role of context and memory traces | Robyn Carston | |
| Maria Varkanitsa | Processing of syntactic dependencies in agrammatism: The role of predictability | Judit Druks | |
| 2014 | |||
| Harris Constantinou | Intensifiers: Meaning and distribution | Hans van de Koot | |
| Matthew Gotham | Copredication, quantification and individuation | Nathan Klinedinst | |
| Ye Tian | Negation processing: a dynamic pragmatic account | Richard Breheny | |
| 2013 | |||
| Hui Cao | The syntax and syntax-external interface of quantification in Mandarin Chinese | Ad Neeleman | |
| Felicity Deamer | An investigation into the processes and mechanisms underlying the comprehension of metaphor and hyberbole | Nausicaa Pouscoulous | |
| 2012 | |||
| Thiago Galery | Descriptive Pronouns Revisited: The semantics and pragmatics of identification-based descriptive interpretations | Robyn Carston | |
| Neil Parr | Conceptual-intentional bootstrapping in the acquisition of the English verb | Richard Breheny | |
| Joy Philip | Subordinating and coordinating linkers | Ad Neeleman | |
| Anna Pollard | Speech production, dual-process theory, and the attentive addressee | Deirdre Wilson | |
| Elena Titov | Information structure of argument order alternations | Hans van de Koot | |
| 2011 | |||
| Ingrid Falkum | The semantics and pragmatics of polysemy: a relevance-theoretic account | Robyn Carston | |
| Axiotis Kechagias | Regulating word order in modern Greek: verb-initial and non verb-initial orders and the conceptual-intentional interfaceRegulating word order in modern Greek: verb-initial and non verb-initial orders and the conceptual-intentional interface | Ad Neeleman | |
| Mariam Aimhmadi | Understanding the phonetics of neutralisation: A variability-field account of vowel/zero alternations in a Hijazi dialect of Arabic | John Harris | |
| Nikolaos Nikolaos | The syntax of Greek polydefinites | Hans van de Koot | |
| 2010 | |||
| Patricia Kolaiti | The limits of expression: Language, poetry, thought | Deirdre Wilson | |
| Matthew Reeve | Clefts | Ad Neeleman | |
| 2008 | |||
| Alison Hall | Free pragmatic processes and explicit utterance content | Robyn Carston |