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Linguistics PhD awards 2008-2015

 

2015

Student Name Thesis Title Principal Supervisor
Diana MazzarellaInferential pragmatics and epistemic vigilanceRobyn Carston
Misako TanakaScoping out of adjuncts: evidence for the parallelism between QR and WH-movementAd Neeleman
Kevin TangNaturalistic speech misperceptionAndrew Nevins
Catalina Urquiza ArribasConstructing concepts and word meanings: the role of context and memory tracesRobyn Carston
Maria VarkanitsaProcessing of syntactic dependencies in agrammatism: The role of predictabilityJudit Druks

 

2014

Student NameThesis Title Principal Supervisor
Harris ConstantinouIntensifiers: Meaning and distributionHans van de Koot
Matthew GothamCopredication, quantification and individuationNathan Klinedinst
Ye TianNegation processing: a dynamic pragmatic accountRichard Breheny

2013

Student NameThesis TitlePrincipal Supervisor
Hui CaoThe syntax and syntax-external interface of quantification in Mandarin ChineseAd Neeleman
Felicity DeamerAn investigation into the processes and mechanisms underlying the comprehension of metaphor and hyberboleNausicaa Pouscoulous

 

2012

Student NameThesis Title Principal Supervisor
Thiago GaleryDescriptive Pronouns Revisited: The semantics and pragmatics of identification-based descriptive interpretationsRobyn Carston
Neil ParrConceptual-intentional bootstrapping in the acquisition of the English verbRichard Breheny
Joy PhilipSubordinating and coordinating linkersAd Neeleman
Anna PollardSpeech production, dual-process theory, and the attentive addresseeDeirdre Wilson
Elena TitovInformation structure of argument order alternationsHans van de Koot

 

2011

Student Name Thesis Title Principal Supervisor
Ingrid FalkumThe semantics and pragmatics of polysemy: a relevance-theoretic accountRobyn Carston
Axiotis KechagiasRegulating 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 interfaceAd Neeleman
Mariam Musellim AlMihmadiUnderstanding the phonetics of neutralisation: A variability-field account of vowel/zero alternations in a Hijazi dialect of ArabicJohn Harris
Nikolaos NikolaosThe syntax of Greek polydefinitesHans van de Koot

2010

Student NameThesis TitlePrincipal Supervisor
Patricia KolaitiThe limits of expression: Language, poetry, thoughtDeirdre Wilson
Matthew ReeveCleftsAd Neeleman

 

2008

Student NameThesis Title Principal Supervisor
 Alison HallFree pragmatic processes and explicit utterance contentRobyn Carston