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Linguistics PhD awards 2008-2025

 

2008 - 2025

YearStudent NameThesis TitleSupervisor              
2025   
 Youngjin KimOn the argument structure of object experiencer verbsHans van de Koot
2024   
 Wenkai TayResultative expressions in Mandarin ChineseHans van de Koot
 Stefano CastiglioneA Biclausal Analysis of Italian Right DislocationAd Neeleman
 Xinxin YanFrom Likeness to Meaning: A Relevance-Theoretic Account of Similes and Other Comparison StatementsRobyn Carston
 Diane StoianovMarking a scene: argument structure in Cena, a young sign languageAndrew Nevins
2023   
 Ruoying ZhaoDefiniteness effects and competition in tenses and aspectsYasutada Sudo
 Elizabeth Coulter"Always speaking": a relevance-theoretic approach to statutory interpretationRobyn Carston
 Hanbyul SongLearning Probabilistic Patterns: Influence of Homophony, L1 and FrequencyJamie White
2022   
 Yan ZhangNo loitering: on the omission of external arguments in Mandarin ChineseHans van de Koot
 Edoardo CanonicaBorderline ContradictionsNathan Klinedinst
 Anna GrabovacMaximizing the concord domain: Concord as spellout in SlavicAd Neeleman
2021   
 Elliot Martin MurphyLinguistic Representation and Processing of CopredicationWing Yee Chow
 Yara AlshaalanIs there structure at the ellipsis site? Evidence from Saudi Arabic sluicingKlaus Abels
 Josephine BowermanReferential metonymy: Cognitive bases and communicative functionsRobyn Carston
 Gregor WilliamsonWorlds of the Future: Modality & Future Licensing at the Syntax-Semantics InterfaceHans van de Koot & Yasu Sudo
2020   
 Patrick ElliottElements of clausal embeddingKlaus Abels
 Alina KonradtBeyond Surface Constituency: Exploring the Nature of Syntactic Priming through Evidence from English- and Russian-speaking Adults and ChildrenKriszta Szendroi
 Jane Middleton*ABA syncretism patterns in pronominal morphologyAd Neeleman
2019   
 Caterina PaolazziProcessing passive sentences in English: A cross-methodological studyAndrea Santi
 Michael MourounasNominalisation and inherent controlHans van de Koot
 Florian BreitWelsh mutation and strict modularityJohn Harris
 Emilia MolimpakisAccepting preposition-stranding under sluicing cross-linguistically; a noisy-channel approachAndrea Santi
2018   
 Irene SymeonidouThe development of theory of mind and pragmatics in adolescentsRichard Breheny
 Ezekiel PanitzArgument ellipsis and strong islandsKlaus Abels
 Chao SunScalar implicature: Gricean reasoning and local enrichmentRichard Breheny
 Giulio DulcinatiCooperation and pragmatic inferencesNausika Pouscoulous
 Elizabeth EdenMeasuring phonological distance between languagesJohn Harris
 Lewis PollockConcepts and concreteness in psycholinguisticsRobyn Carston
2017   
 Zoë BelkAttributes of attributionAd Neeleman
 Jiri KasparSyncretism: A case study of the particle že in CzechKlaus Abels
2016   
 Ya-Fang LuTone processing and the acquisition of tone in Mandarin- and English-speaking typically developing children and children with Autism Spectrum DisorderKriszta Szendroi
 Nicholas NeasomAgainst synchronic chain shiftingJohn Harris
2015   
 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   
 Harris ConstantinouIntensifiers: Meaning and distributionHans van de Koot
 Matthew GothamCopredication, quantification and individuationNathan Klinedinst
 Ye TianNegation processing: a dynamic pragmatic accountRichard Breheny
2013   
 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   
 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   
 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 AimhmadiUnderstanding 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   
 Patricia KolaitiThe limits of expression: Language, poetry, thoughtDeirdre Wilson
 Matthew ReeveCleftsAd Neeleman
2008   
  Alison HallFree pragmatic processes and explicit utterance contentRobyn Carston