Below is a list of approved DPhil theses in the Faculty.
Titles in blue are available online in the Oxford University Research Archive.
2022
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Arkadiusz Kwapiszewski (New) Dialogue designer at PolyAI |
Dr Víctor Acedo-Matellán and Professor Matt Husband | Aspect and event structure. The morphosyntax of Polish verbs from a cross-linguistic perspective |
2021
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Eileen Coughlan (Balliol) |
Professor Deborah Cameron | Identity, place and legitimate language: a comparative study of language attitudes among teenagers in two Irish-medium schools | |
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Emily Lindsay-Smith (St. Catherine’s) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey; Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the Language and Brain Laboratory, University of Oxford |
Professor Aditi Lahiri | A phonological typology of modern Arabic varieties | Prof. Wolfgang de Melo (Wolfson) & Prof. Elan Dresher (Toronto) |
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Andrew James Lloyd (Kellogg) |
Dr Sam Wolfe | The microvariation of post-verbal negative particles in Old Gallo-Romance: a comparative study | |
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Nicola Swinburne (St. Edmund Hall) |
Dr Sandra Paoli | The grammaticalization of do-support in the northern Italian Camuno dialect |
Dr Víctor Acedo-Matellán (Oriel) & Prof. Ian Roberts (Cambridge) |
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Amanda Thomas (Trinity) Editor, Lexicography, Oxford English Dictionary |
Dr Louise Mycock | Divergence and mismatches in Portuguese morphology and syntax | Prof. Mary Dalrymple & Dr Louise Esher (CNRS) |
2020
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Hannah Davidson (St Edmund Hall) Postdoctoral Researcher and Outreach Officer, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford |
Dr Sandra Paoli | The development of tense, mood and aspect markers in Mauritian Creole | Prof. Wolfgang De Melo (Wolfson) & Prof. Sibylle Kriegel (Aix-Marseille) |
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Kim Fuellenbach (St Hugh’s) Senior Learning Consultant and Digital Learning Expert |
Professor Matt Husband | A generic subject. The interplay of morphosyntax and the human conceptual system | Prof. Aditi Lahiri (Somerville) & Prof.
Jennifer Culbertson (Edinburgh) |
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Béatrice Rea (Lady Margaret Hall) Copywriter (Conceptrice-rédactrice) at The French Shop, Canada |
Professor Martin Maiden and Dr Rosalind Temple | Je m’ai fait mal quand j’ai tombé: a real- and apparent-time study of auxiliary alternation in intransitive and pronominal verbs in spoken Montréal French (1971-2016) | |
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Katherine Truslove (Wolfson) Civil Servant, Civil Service Fast Stream |
Prof Deborah Cameron | The relationship between English and German in Germany: a sociolinguistic study of the use of English and anglicisms, and attitudes towards them | Dr Kerstin Hoge (St Hilda’s) & Prof. Kristina Hultgren (Open University) |
2019
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Zeprina-Jaz Ainsworth (Worcester) |
Professor Martin Maiden and Professor Ulla-Maija Forsberg | Loss, retention, and accretion of inflexional case-marking — diachronic evidence from Italic and Finnic | |
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Michele Bianconi (St Hilda’s) Departmental Lecturer in Classical Philology, University of Oxford |
Professor Andreas Willi | The Linguistic Relationships between Greek and the Anatolian Languages | Dr Christopher Metcalf (Queen’s) & Prof. H. Craig Melchert (UCLA) |
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Jamie Findlay (Linacre) Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Semantics, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo |
Professor Ash Asudeh and Professor Mary Dalrymple |
Multiword expressions and the lexicon | Prof. Stephen Pulman (Somerville) & Prof. Thomas Wasow (Stanford) |
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Stephen Jones (Kellogg) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Bernoulli Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Mathematics at the University of Groningen |
Professor Mary Dalrymple | Modelling an incremental theory of Lexical Functional Grammar | Dr John Lowe (Wolfson) & Prof. Shravan Vasishth (Potsdam) |
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Yoolim Kim (Wolfson) Visiting Lecturer in Psychology, Wellesley College |
Dr Sandra Kotzor and Professor Aditi Lahiri | The mental representations of Hanja: exploring cross-script semantic cohorts in Korean | |
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Mitko Sabev (Wolfson) Teaching Associate, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge |
Professor Elinor Payne | Spectral and durational unstressed vowel reduction: an acoustic study of monolingual and bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and Turkish |
2018
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Xavier Bach (Lincoln) Junior Research Fellow in Linguistics, Trinity College, Oxford |
Professor Martin Maiden and Professor Mary Dalrymple | The origins of inflectional classes | |
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Rosemary Hall (Magdalen) Research Assistant, Dialect and Heritage Project, School of English, University of Leeds |
Professor Deborah Cameron and Dr Rosalind Temple |
Staging language in Bermuda: phonology and parodic performance of Bermudian English | |
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Ana Werkmann Horvat (Worcester) Assistant Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek, Croatia |
Dr Matt Husband and Professor Ash Asudeh | Layers of Modality | |
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Christopher Huff (Hertford) |
Dr Elinor Payne and Professor Aditi Lahiri | A Study of Mandarin Homophony | Prof. J.S. Coleman (Wolfson) & Prof. K. Johnson (Berkeley) |
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Joseph Lovestrand (Somerville) |
Professor Mary Dalrymple | Serial verb constructions in Barayin: Typology, description and lexical-functional grammar | Prof. Ash Asudeh (Jesus) & Prof. Peter Austin (SOAS) |
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Robin Meyer (Wolfson) Assistant Professor of Historical Linguistics, Department of Language and Information Sciences, University of Lausanne |
Professor Theo van Lint and Dr Elizabeth Tucker | Iranian-Armenian language contact in and before the 5th century CE: An investigation into pattern replication and societal multilingualism | |
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Marjolein Poortvliet (New) Linguist and Artist; 5-year Honorary Affiliate at Charles University |
Professor Mary Dalrymple and Professor Ash Asudeh | Perception and predication: a synchronic and diachronic analysis of dutch descriptive perception verbs as evidential copular verbs | Prof. Aditi Lahiri (Somerville) & Prof. Gabriele Diewald (Hannover) |
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Svetlana Schuster (Lady Margaret Hall) Senior Language Engineer with Amazon |
Professor Aditi Lahiri | Lexical gaps and morphological complexity: the role of intermediate derivational steps | |
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Cong Zhang (St Anne’s) Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology, Newcastle University |
Professor Aditi Lahiri | Tianjin Mandarin Tones and Tunes | Dr. Mary Baltazani (St Anne’s) and Dr. Yiya Chen (Leiden) |
2017
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Geoffrey Gosby (Lincoln) Independent linguist and translator |
Dr Jan Fellerer | Information Structure of Georgian | |
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Michael Ashby (Kellogg) Retired. Honorary Senior Lecturer, Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College, London |
Professor John Coleman | Experimental Phonetics in Britain, 1890-1940 | |
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Tsz Mei Chan (Worcester) |
Professor John Coleman and Professor Ian Watson | Alveolarization in Hong Kong Cantonese: A sociophonetic study of neogrammarian and lexical diffusion models of sound change | |
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Aimi Kuya (New) Associate Professor, College of Letters, International Studies and English Communication, Ritsumeikan University |
Professor Bjarke Frellesvig | Diffusion of Western Loanwords in Contemporary Japanese: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Lexical Variation |
2016
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Helena Beeley (New) Diplomat, Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
Professor Philomen Probert and Professor John Coleman | The phonetics of labialized velars in Ancient Greek | |
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Kinga Kozminska (Somerville) Lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of London |
Dr Rosalind Temple | Language and identity in a transnational context: a sociophonetic study of the Polish of a group of migrants living in the UK | |
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Nelson Goering (Wolfson) Researcher, Department of Linguistics, Ghent University |
Professor Aditi Lahiri | The linguistic elements of Old Germanic metre: Phonology, metrical theory, and the development of alliterative verse | |
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Hilary Wynne (Lady Margaret Hall) Postdoctoral Researcher at the Language and Brain Laboratory, University of Oxford |
Professor Aditi Lahiri | The Phonological Encoding of Complex Morphosyntactic Structures in Native and Non-native English Speakers | Dr E.M. Husband (St Hugh’s) & Prof. P. Fikkert (Radboud) |
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Helen Sims-Williams (Christ Church) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey |
Dr Peter Barber | Analogy in Morphological Change: The diachronic treatment of irregularity in Greek | Prof. P. Probert (Wolfson) & Dr. M. Baerman (Surrey) |
2015
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Tom Juzek (Jesus) Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics, Florida State University |
Prof. M. Dalrymple | Acceptability Judgement Tasks and Grammatical Theory | Dr. A. Asudeh (Jesus) & Prof. G. Fanselow (Potsdam) |
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Steven Kaye (Magdalen) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey |
Prof. M. Maiden | Conjugation Class from Latin to Romance: Heteroclisis in Diachrony and Synchrony | Mr J.C. Smith (St. Catherine’s) & Prof. F. Plank (Konstanz) |
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Brigita Seguis (Hertford) Senior Research Manager, Cambridge Assessment (English) |
Dr. J. Fellerer | The Polish-Russian Mixed Code in the Polish Community in Lithuania | Dr. R. Temple (New) & Prof. A. Backus (Tilburg) |
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Liselotte Snijders (Worcester) Senior Linguist, Google Bard |
Prof. M. Dalrymple | The Nature of Configurationality in LFG | Dr. P. Probert (Wolfson) & Prof. L. Sadler (Essex) |
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Jeannique Darby (Somerville) Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, Institutt for språk og litteratur, Høgskulen i Volda |
Prof. A. Lahiri | The Processing of Conversion in English: Morphological Complexity and Underspecification | Dr. E. M. Husband (St Hugh’s) & Prof. F. Plank (Konstanz) |
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Benjamin Cartlidge (Trinity) Lecturer in Greek Culture and Classical Receptions, University of Liverpool |
Dr. W. de Melo | The Language of Menander Comicus and its Relation to the Koine | Dr. P. Probert (Wolfson) & Dr. A. Sommerstein (Nottingham) |
2014
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Dong-Hong Ji (Somerville) |
Prof. S. G. Pulman | Conceptual Relevance: Representation and Analysis | Prof. J Coleman (Wolfson) & Prof. E. J. Briscoe (Cambridge) |
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John Kerby (Somerville) |
Prof. M. Dalrymple | Deictic Categories in Toda Sedeq (Austronesian, Taiwan) | Mr J C Smith (St Catherine’s) & Prof D Brown (York) |
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Benjamin Molineaux Ress (St Hilda’s) Postdoctoral research assistant on the project FITS: From Inglis to Scots, University of Edinburgh |
Prof. A. Lahiri | Synchronic and diachronic morphoprosody: evidence from Mapudungun and early English | Dr S R Parkinson (Linacre) & Prof B E Dresher (Toronto) |
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Damien Mooney (Balliol) |
Dr R. Temple | Linguistic Transfer and Dialect Levelling: a Sociophonetic Analysis of Contact in the Regional French of Bearn | Prof I M C Watson (Christ Church) & Dr D Hornsby (Kent) |
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Zeynab Raeesy (Queen’s) |
Prof. J. Coleman | Automatic Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Images of Speech Articulation | Dr S J Golding (University College) & Prof R I Damper (Southampton) |
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Tohru Seraku (St Catherine’s) Foreign Professor, Department of Japanese Interpretation and Translation, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea |
Dr J Kiaer and Dr D Cram | Clefts, relatives and language dynamics: the case of Japanese | Prof M E Dalrymple (Linacre) & Prof L Marten (SOAS) |
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Ana Todea (Christ Church) |
Prof. M. Maiden and Dr I. Watson | The Imperfect — Preterite Opposition in Romance Languages | Dr S Paoli (Balliol) & Prof A Ledgeway (Cambridge) |
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Daniel Trott (New) |
Prof. B. Frellesvig | Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese | Dr J Fellerer (Wolfson) & Prof J Whitman (Cornell) |
2013
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Holly Kennard (Jesus) Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Oxford Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics |
Prof A. Lahiri | Breton morphosyntax in two generations of speakers: evidence from word order and mutation | Dr D. F. Cram (Jesus) & Prof M. Tallerman (Newcastle) |
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Franziska Hack (Somerville) Guest researcher in Romance Linguistics, University of Konstanz |
Prof A. Lahiri | The Syntax and Prosody of Interrogatives: evidence from varieties spoken in northern Italy | Dr S. Paoli (Balliol) & Prof C. Poletto (Frankfurt am Main) |
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Roberto Ceolin (Wolfson) |
Prof A. Willi | Περὶ τῶν εἰς νυμί — A study on athematic -(ν)νῡ/(ν)νῠ- suffixed presents from Homer to Oppian of Cilicia | Dr P. Probert (Wolfson) & Prof A. Cantera (Salamanca) |
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Kathryn McLachlan (Linacre) |
Prof A. Willi & Dr P. Probert | Verborum ordo — ordo verborum: the placement of the dependent genitive in Classical Latin | Prof J.Coleman (Wolfson) & Prof D. R. Langslow (Manchester) |
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Heidi Kurtz (Linacre) Senior Development Executive, University of Oxford Museums and Collections |
Prof J. Coleman | Stress, Etymology and Metre in four Canterbury tales | Dr S.Parkinson (Linacre) & Dr M. Duffell (QMUL) |
2012
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Philip Roberts (Wolfson) Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Oxford Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics |
Prof A. Willi & Prof A. Lahiri | Towards a Computer Model of the historical phonology and morphology of Latin | Dr J.H. W. Penney (Wolfson) & Prof P. Kiparsky (Stanford) |
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Louise Esher (Balliol) JRF in Modern Languages at St. John’s |
Prof M. Maiden & Mr JC Smith | Future, Conditional and Autonomous Morphology in Occitan | Dr S. Paoli (Balliol) & Prof C J. Pountain (QMUL) |
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Bozhil Hristov (Jesus) Lecturer, University of Sofia |
Prof M. Dalrymple | Agreement, Case Assignment and Nominal Coordination | Dr M. MacRobert (LMH) and Prof Greville Corbett (Surrey) |
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John Lowe (Wolfson) Leverhulme Research Fellow, Oxford |
Prof A. Willi & Dr E. Tucker | The Syntax and Semantics of Tense-Aspect Stem Particles in early Rgvedic Sanskrit | Prof M. Dalrymple (Linacre) & Prof S. Jamison (UCLA) |
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Karen Park (Christ Church) Researcher at the Ethno-ornithology World Archive, Oxford |
Prof M. Dalrymple | The Selective Properties of Verbs in Reflexive Constructions | Dr A. Asudeh (Jesus) & Prof P. Austin (SOAS) |
2011
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Chiara Cappellaro (Exeter) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Romance Linguistics at the Unversity of Oxford |
Prof M. Maiden | History and Development of Third Person Pronouns in Italo-Romance | Mr J. C. Smith (St Catz) & Dr A. Ledgeway (Cambridge) |
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Michel Paradis (Balliol) |
Dr D Cram & Dr G. Kochanski | Speech in Parts: Understanding and Modelling the Semantic Differences between Words | Prof J. Coleman & Prof J. Spenader (Groningen) |
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Antonio Fortin (LMH) Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Manchester |
Prof M. Maiden & Dr A Asudeh | The Morphology and Semantics of Expressive Affixes | Dr P. Probert & Prof C. G. Potts (Stanford) |
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Mcebisi Ntleki (Wolfson) |
Prof J. Higginbotham, Dr D. Cram, Prof A. Lahiri | A Study of the Formal Properties of MERGE from a Computational Biolinguistic perspective | Prof M. Dalrymple & Dr B. Smith (London) |
2010
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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‘Oiwi Parker Jones (LMH) Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL |
Prof J.S. Coleman | A Computational Phonology and Morphology of Hawaiian | Prof. M. Dalrymple (Linacre) and Prof J.A. Goldsmith (Chicago) |
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Sandra Kotzor (Kellogg) Post-doctoral Research Assistant, Oxford Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics |
Dr D. F. Cram & Prof A. Lahiri | Lexical Opposition: an investigation into canonical and peripheral phenomena of antonymy | Prof. M. Dalrymple (Linacre) and Professor F. Plank (Konstanz) |
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Wei-Tai Liao (Gwen) (Wolfson) |
Professor M. Dalrymple | An LFG account of empty pronouns in Mandarin Chinese | Dr S. Paoli (Balliol) and Prof P. Sells (SOAS) |
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Rada Mihalcea (Somerville) Associate professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan |
Professor S. G. Pulman | The Language of Humour | Professor M Dalrymple (Linacre) and Dr S. Clark (Cambridge) |
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Nicholas Zair (Jesus) Research Fellow at Peterhouse College, Cambridge |
Professor A Willi | The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic | Dr. J. H. W. Penney (Wolfson) & Dr P Russell (Cambridge) |
2009
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Lindsay Morcom (Exeter) Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Aboriginal Teacher Education Program, Queen’s University, Canada |
Professor M. Dalrymple & Dr E. P. García-Bellido | The universality and demarcation of lexical categories cross-linguistically | Prof A. Lahiri (Somerville) & Prof M. Tallerman (Newcastle) |
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Ranjan Sen (Christ Church) Lecturer at the University of Sheffield |
Professor J. S. Coleman & Dr J. H. W. Penney | Syllable and Segment in Latin | Dr P. Probert (Wolfson) & Dr B. Vaux (Cambridge) |
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Sarah V. Ogilvie (Trinity) Lexicographer, Amazon Kindle |
Professor L. Mugglestone | Loanwords, World Englishes and the Oxford English Dictionary | Mr T. Hoad (St Peter’s) and Dr R. McConchie (Helsinki) |
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Nikola Milic (Somerville) |
Professor M. Maiden | Language Standardization in the History of Italian: typology and effects | Prof D. Zancani (Balliol) & Dr D. Bentley (Manchester) |
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Simon Dobnik (Queen’s) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, University of Gothenburg |
Professor S. G. Pulman | Teaching Mobile Robots to use Spatial Words | Prof M. Dalrymple (Linacre) and Prof E. Klein (Edinburgh) |
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Stephen Pax Leonard (Exeter) Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Anthropology, Exeter College, Oxford |
Professor A. Willi | Language, Society and Identity in early Iceland | Dr C. Larrington (St John’s) and Prof K. Arnasson (Reykjavik) |
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Panagiotis Filos (Jesus) |
Professor A. Morpurgo Davies | Studies in the Morphology of Latin Loanwords into Greek: Evidence from the Papyri | Dr J. Adams (All Souls) and Prof V. Bubenik (St John’s, NF, Canada) |
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Suriel Mofu (St Cross) Rector of the State University of West Papua. |
Professor M. Dalrymple | Biak Morphosyntax | Dr P. Probert (Wolfson) and Prof P. Austin (SOAS) |
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In Ji Choi (Wolfson) |
Dr D. F. Cram | Discourse Markers in Children’s Narratives | Dr K. Hoge (St Hilda’s) and Dr T. Wharton (Sussex) |
2008
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Thaweesak Anansettasiri (Hertford) |
Professor M. Dalrymple | A Study of Medio-Passive Constructions with Special Reference to Thai | Dr D. F. Cram (Jesus) and Professor I. Roberts (Cambridge) |
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Shi-Ching Olivia Lam (Wolfson) Assistant Professor, School of Humanities (Linguistics), The University of Hong Kong |
Professor M. Dalrymple | Object functions and the Syntax of Double Object Constructions in Lexical Functional Grammar | Dr S. Paoli (Balliol) and Professor P. Sells (SOAS) |
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Anastassia Loukina (St Cross) Associate Research Scientist at Educational Testing Services |
Dr J. Coleman | Regional Phonetic Variation in Modern Greek | Dr E. Payne (St Hilda’s) and Proessor B. Joseph (Ohio State Univ.) |
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Nicholas Hillyard (Linacre) |
Dr J. H. W. Penney | Number in Homer | Dr P. Probert (Wolfson) and Professor R. Wachter (Basel) |
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Thomas Finbow (St Catherine’s) |
Professor M. Maiden | Writing Latin and reading Romance? On logographic reading in Medieval Iberia. | Dr S. R. Parkinson (Linacre) and Professor R. Wright (Liverpool) |
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Paul Hedley (Magdalen) Partner in Executive Education at Exart Performances, conductor of ‘Musica Beatica’ |
Dr D. F. Cram | Anaphora, Relevance and the Conceptual/Procedural Distinction | Dr P. Garcia-Bellido (St Cross) and Prof. D. Wilson (University College, London) |
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Ekaterina Samoylova (Corpus Christi) |
Dr J. Coleman | The Production and Perception of Whispered Vowels in English | Dr I. Watson (Christ Church) and Dr P. Hoole (Munich) |
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Richard Ashdowne (New College) Lecturer in Classical Languages, University College; Lecturer in Linguistics, Somerville, University, Trinity & Wadham Colleges; Editor, Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources |
Prof. M. Maiden & Mr. J.C. Smith | Names and Addresses: Aspects of Address in Latin and Romance. | Dr. D.F. Cram (Jesus) & Prof. N. Vincent (Manchester) |
2007
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Richard Hitchman (New) Lecturer in Classics, Somerville |
Professor A. Morpurgo Davies | After Minos: Continuity in Ancient Cretan Personal Names. | Mrs E. Matthews (St Hilda’s) and Dr S. Colvin (University College, London) |
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Peter Barber (Wolfson) Lecturer in Comparative Philology, University of Oxford |
Professor A. Morpurgo Davies | Evidence for Sievers’ Law in Ancient Greek | Dr P. Probert (Wolfson) and Prof D. Ringe (University of Pennsylvania) |
2006
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Keith Owen (Worcester) |
Dr D. F. Cram | Within the Meaning of the Act – Pragmatics and Social Security | Dr J. Aitchison (Worcester); Dr J. Cotterill and Dr C. Heffer (Cardiff) |
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Nivedita Mani (St Catherine’s) Junior Research Group Leader (Language Acquisition), University of Göttingen |
D J. Coleman | Prosody, Syntax and the Lexicon in Parsing Ambiguous Sentences | |
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Lars Larm (Wolfson) Senior Lecturer in Japanese Linguistics at the University of Lund, Sweden |
Dr D. F. Cram & Dr B. Frellesvig | Modality in Japanese | Prof. M. Dalrymple (Linacre) and Prof. Y. Takubo (Kyoto University) |
2005
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Hong Fan (Worcester) Professor of Media Language and Communication in the School of Journalism & Communication, Tsinghua University, China |
Prof J. Aitchison and |
The Polysemy Networks of Heart and Xin | Dr D. F. Cram (Jesus) and Dr W. Chao (SOAS, University of London) |
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Ina Hartmann-Doettinger (St Hugh’s) Bertelsmann Foundation, Berlin |
Professor A. Morpurgo Davies | Personal Names in Elis 800 BC to 300 AD | Dr J. Penney (Wolfson) and Professor S. Hornblower (University College, London) |
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Dorjana Sirola (Somerville) Faculty Member, Department of English, University of Rijeka |
Professor A. Morpurgo Davies | Two Pre-Roman Alphabets of Northern Italy | Prof. D. Langslow (University of Manchester) and Prof R. Wachter (University of Basel) |
2004
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Diana Gibson (Christ Church) Managing Director, Vandeveer Investments LLC |
Professor A. Morpurgo Davies | Causative Verbs in Ancient Greek: the development of the Periphrastic Construction | Dr J. Penney (Wolfson) and Professor H. Pinkster (University of Amsterdam) |
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Wolfgang de Melo (Corpus Christi) University Lecturer in Comparative Philology, Oxford |
Professor A. Morpurgo Davies and Dr. J. H. W. Penney | Traces of an Earlier Verbal System in Archaic Latin — the Meaning and Usage of the Types faxo/faxim/impetrasse, duim and attigas | Dr. J. Adams (All Souls) and Professor H. Pinkster (University of Amsterdam) |
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Maria Liakata (St Edmund Hall) Research Fellow, Computer Science Dept, University of Aberystwyth |
Professor S. G. Pulman | Inducing domain theories | Dr J. Coleman and Dr J. Cussens (York) |
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Patrick Thomas (Hertford) |
Professor S. Romaine | Some syntactic affinities between Krio and Gullah. |
2003
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Didier Maillat (Lincoln) Professor of English Linguistics, Dept of English, University of Fribourg |
Dr G. Ramchand | The Semantics and Pragmatics of Directionals: a case study in English and French. | Dr J. Coleman and Dr E. van der Zee (University of Lincoln) |
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Britta Jensen (St Cross) Research Fellow at the Macquarie University Centre for Cognitive Science, Sydney, Australia |
Dr G. Ramchand and Professor J. A. Holmberg | Imperatives in English and Scandinavian | Dr D. F. Cram and Professor T. Taraldsen (University of Tromsø, Norway) |
2002
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Catherine Sangster (Merton) Oxford University Press |
Dr. J. S. Coleman | Inter- and intra-speaker variation in Liverpool English: a sociophonetic study | Dr V. Martin and Prof. G. J. Docherty (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) |
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Denise Leigh (Wolfson) |
Dr G. Ramchand | Anaphora and the Bilingual | Dr I. M. C. Watson and Dr I. Tsimpli (University of Cambridge) |
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Reem Bassiouney (Somerville) Associate Professor of Arabic linguistics at Georgetown University |
Prof C. Holes | Functions of code-switching in Egypt | |
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Francis Yunqing Lin (St Hugh’s) Professor of Linguistics, Beijing Normal University |
Professor J. Higginbotham | Grammar, meaning and understanding: an enquiry into grammatical and semantic competence | Dr. D. F. Cram and Dr B. Smith (Birkbeck College, London) |
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Hisashi Morita (Jesus) Assistant Professor in the Department of British and American Studies, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan |
Professor J. Higginbotham | English and Japanese Questions | Dr G. Ramchand and Dr D. Adger (University of York) |
2001
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Hiromi Tanaka (Somerville) |
Dr G. Ramchand | Information Structure in English and Japanese: a Dynamic File Change Semantics Account | Professor S. G. Pulman and Dr C. Heycock (University of Edinburgh) |
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Natalie Tronenko (Hertford) Developer of Russian Language Learning on the Web, Sussex & LSE |
Dr D. F. Cram | Regularities in the behaviour of Russian Phrasal Idioms | Dr Mary MacRobert and Professor A. Spencer (University of Essex) |
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Liang Chua (St. Hugh’s) Associate Professor, Nagoya University |
Professor S. Romaine | Language Shift in a Singaporean Chinese Family and the Matrix language Frame Model | Dr D. F. Cram and Professor Li Wei (University of Newcastle) |
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Elinor (Reynolds) Keane (Merton) Research associate at Phonetics Laboratory (former) |
Dr J. S. Coleman | Echo Words in Tamil | Dr I. M. C. Watson, and Professor R. Asher (University of Edinburgh) |
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Raffaella Folli (Wolfson) Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Communication in the University of Ulster |
Dr G. Ramchand and Professor J. Higginbotham | Constructing Telicity in English and Italian | Professor A. Morpurgo-Davies, and Professor Hagit Borer (USC) |
2000
| Author | Supervisors | Title | Examiners |
|---|---|---|---|
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Paula West (Christ Church) Associate Programmer Analyst, Equities Management Technology group, Goldman Sachs |
Dr J. S. Coleman | Long Distance Co-articulatory Effects of English /l/ and /r/ | Professor P. Roach (University of Reading) and and Dr P. Hoole (University of Munich) |
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Yuko Otsuka (Linacre) Professor, Sophia University, Tokyo |
Professor J. Higginbotham | Ergativity in Tongan | Dr G. Ramchand and Prof. L. de Mena Travis (McGill University) |
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Pietro Bortone (Wolfson) Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Uppsala |
Professor A. Morpurgo Davies and I. Philippaki-Warburton (Reading) | Aspects of the history of Greek prepositions: a localistic view | Dr P. Mackridge (St Cross) and J. Miller (University of Edinburgh) |
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Miyuki Sawada (St Anne’s) Now at National Kaohsiung Normal University |
Dr D. F. Cram | Topics in Japanese Clause Structure: Where Kokugogaku and Generative Grammar meet | Professor Higginbotham and H. Hoshi (SOAS, London) |
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Kerstin Hoge (St Hilda’s) |
Professor J. Higginbotham | Superiority | Dr G. Ramchand (Linacre) and Prof. M. Diesing (Cornell University) |
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Philomen Probert (Wolfson) University Lecturer in Classical Philology and Linguistics at Oxford |
Professor A. Morpurgo Davies | Studies in Greek Accentuation | Dr. M. L. West and Prof. P. Kiparsky (Stanford University) |
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Jason Zerdin (Somerville) Oxford University Computing Services |
Professor A. Morpurgo Davies | Studies in the Ancient Greek verbs in -sko | Dr J. H. W. Penney and Professor D. Ringe (University of Pennsylvania) |
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Nam-Kil Kang (Somerville) Lecturer, Korea |
Professor J. Higginbotham | Reflexives and the linking theory in Universal Grammar | Dr D. F. Cram and Dr H. Hoji (University of London) |
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Peter Chew (Jesus) Finance Consultant |
Dr J. S. Coleman | A Computational phonology of Russian | Dr S. Parkinson and Dr Dunstan Brown |
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Roberta Middleton (Wadham) Oxford University Press |
Professor M. Maiden | Aspects of the history of relative clauses in Italo-Romance | Mr J. C. Smith, and Professor Mair Parry |
1998
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Paolo Vaciago (Oriel) Ricercatore at the University of Rome His thesis is being published in 3 volumes by the Corpus Christianorum in Belgium |
Professor M. Godden | The transmission of early Anglo-Saxon glossarial material on the continent: texts, index and analysis | Professor N. Palmer and Dr J. D. Pfeiffer |
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Jana Dankovicova (St Hugh’s) Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics, University College, London |
Dr J. S. Coleman | The linguistic basis of articulation rate variation in Czech | Professor B. Rosner and Professor P. Roach (University of Reading) |
1997
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Ruth Carroll (Pembroke) Academy of Finland research fellow in the Department of English, University of Turku (Finland) |
Professor J. Aitchison | Cooking Verbs in Fourteenth Century England. A semantic class and its syntactic behaviour | Nicholas Gisborne and Professor E.G. Stanley |
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Alessandro Capone (Magdalen) University of Salento His thesis was published in Italy |
Dr Yan Huang | Modality and Discourse | Professor Sally McConnell Ginet (Cornell) and Professor J. Higginbotham |
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Wen-Chao Li (LMH) Book published by Peter Lang, New York. 1999 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, San Francisco State University |
Dr J. S. Coleman | A diachronically motivated segmental phonology of Modern Chinese | Dr S. Parkinson and Professor Richard Wiese |
1996
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Jane Stuart Smith (Somerville) Thesis published by OUP as Phonetics and Philology: the development of the PIE voiced aspirates in Italic. Reader in the School of English & Scottish Language & Literature, University of Glasgow |
Dr J. H. W. Penney and Dr J. S. Coleman | The Development of the Indo-European Voiced Aspirates in Italic: A Philological and Phonetic Assessment | Dr D. Langslow and Dr K. Hayward |
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David Willis (St John’s) Book published by OUP in 1998 Senior Lecturer in Historical Linguistics, University of Cambridge |
Professor D. E. Evans | Syntactic change in Welsh | Professor T. Charles Edwards, and Dr Maggie Tallerman |
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Jin Zhou (Worcester) |
Professor J. Aitchison | A study of speech errors in Mandarin Chinese | Dr J. Coleman and Professor M. Garman (Reading) |
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Mathew Saxton (Oriel) Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, University of London |
Professor J. Aitchison | Negative Evidence versus Negative Feedback: A study of corrective input in child language acquisition | Dr K. Plunkett and Professor J. Hurford (Edinburgh) |
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Torsten Meissner (St Hugh’s) Thesis published by OUP University Lecturer in Classical Philology and Linguistics, Cambridge |
Professor A. Morpurgo Davies | S-stem Nouns and Adjectives in Ancient Greek: A study in Greek and Indo-European Word Formation | Dr J. H. W. Penney and Professor Petersmann (University of Heidelberg) |
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Matthew Whelpton (St Peter’s) Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Iceland |
Professor Higginbotham and Dr D. F. Cram | The Syntax and Semantics of Infinitives of Result in English | Professor S. Lappin (London) and Professor Edwin Williams (Princeton University) |
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Biljana Scott (Christ Church) Faculty Tutor in Chinese Linguistics, Oxford |
Professor J. Aitchison and Professor Atkinson (University of Essex) | Aspectogenesis and the Characterization of Directionals in Chinese | Professor S. Romaine and Dr Wynn Chao (London) |
