Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics

DPhil Theses approved

Titles in blue now available on-line in OXFORD UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ARCHIVE.

Author	Supervisors	Title	Examiners
2012
John Lowe Wolfson	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)
Karen Park Christ Church	Prof M. Dalrymple	The Selective Properties of Verbs in Reflexive Constructions	Dr A Asudeh (Jesus) & Prof P Austin (SOAS)
2011
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)
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)
Antonio Fortin LMH Faculty Member, Surrey Morphology Group	Prof M. Maiden & Dr A Asudeh	The Morphology and Semantics of Expressive Affixes	Dr P. Probert & Prof C. G. Potts (Stanford)
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
'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)
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)
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)
Rada Mihalcea Somerville Associate Professor of Computer Science Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University of North Texas.	Professor S. G. Pulman	The Language of Humour	Professor M Dalrymple (Linacre) and Dr S. Clark (Cambridge)
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
Lindsay Morcom Exeter Canadian Defence Academy.	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)
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)
Sarah V. Ogilvie Trinity Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.	Professor L. Mugglestone	Loanwords, World Englishes and the Oxford English Dictionary	Mr T. Hoad (St Peter's) and Dr R. McConchie (Helsinki)
Nikola Milic Somerville	Professor M. Maiden	Language Standardization in the History of Italian: typology and effects	Prof D. Zancani (Balliol) & Dr D. Bentley (Manchester)
Simon Dobnik Queen's Postdoctoral research associate, Computing Laboratory.	Professor S. G. Pulman	Teaching Mobile Robots to use Spatial Words	Prof M. Dalrymple (Linacre) and Prof E. Klein (Edinburgh)
Stephen Pax Leonard Exeter Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.	Professor A. Willi	Language, Society and Identity in early Iceland	Dr C. Larrington (St John's) and Prof K. Arnasson (Reykjavik)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
Anastassia Loukina St Cross Research associate, Phonetics Lab (2008-2011).	Dr J. Coleman	Regional Phonetic Variation in Modern Greek	Dr E. Payne (St Hilda's) and Proessor B. Joseph (Ohio State Univ.)
Nicholas Hillyard Linacre	Dr J. H. W. Penney	Number in Homer	Dr P. Probert (Wolfson) and Professor R. Wachter (Basel)
Thomas Finbow St Catherine's Professor Doutor de Lingüística Histórica Universidade de São Paulo	Professor M. Maiden	Writing Latin and reading Romance? On logographic reading in Medieval Iberia.	Dr S. R. Parkinson (Linacre) and Professor R. Wright (Liverpool)
Paul Hedley Magdalen General Manager of the Three Choirs Festival.	Dr D. F. Cram	Anaphora, Relevance and the Conceptual/Procedural Distinction	Dr P. Garcia-Bellido (St Cross) and Prof. D. Wilson (University College, London)
Ekaterina Samoylova Corpus Christi Teaching Fellow in Phonetics, Newcastle University.	Dr J. Coleman	The Production and Perception of Whispered Vowels in English	Dr I. Watson (Christ Church) and Dr P. Hoole (Munich)
Richard Ashdowne New Assistant Editor of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources and College Lecturer in Linguistics at Jesus, Somerville and University Colleges.	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
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)
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
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)
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
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
Hong Fan Worcester Professor of Media Language and Communication in the School of Journalism & Communication, Tsinghua University, China	Prof J. Aitchison and Prof S. G. Pulman	The Polysemy Networks of Heart and Xin	Dr D. F. Cram (Jesus) and Dr W. Chao (SOAS, University of London)
Ina Hartmann-Doettinger St Hugh's Dr Doettinger works for the Bertelsmann Foundation in 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)
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
Diana Gibson Christ Church Managing Director at 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)
Wolfgang de Melo Corpus Christi Professor of Latin Linguistics, University of Ghent.	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)
Maria Liakata SEH Research Fellow in the Computer Science Dept, University of Aberystwyth	Professor S. G. Pulman	Inducing domain theories	Dr J. Coleman and Dr J. Cussens (York)
Patrick Thomas Hertford	Professor S. Romaine	Some syntactic affinities between Krio and Gullah.
2003
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)
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
Catherine Sangster Merton Coordinator of the BBC Pronunciation Unit.	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)
Denise Leigh Wolfson	Dr G. Ramchand	Anaphora and the Bilingual	Dr I. M. C. Watson and Dr I. Tsimpli (University of Cambridge)
Reem Bassiouney Somerville Associate Professor of Arabic linguistics at Georgetown University	Prof C. Holes	Functions of code-switching in Egypt
Francis Yunqing Lin St Hugh's Professor of Linguistics at 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)
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
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)
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)
Liang Chua St.Hugh's Associate Professor at 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)
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)
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
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)
Yuko Otsuka Linacre Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii in Manoa.	Professor J. Higginbotham	Ergativity in Tongan	Dr G. Ramchand and Prof. L. de Mena Travis (McGill University)
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)
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)
Kerstin Hoge St Hilda's Dr Hoge is now University Lecturer in German Linguistics at Oxford.	Professor J. Higginbotham	Superiority	Dr G. Ramchand (Linacre) and Prof. M. Diesing (Cornell University)
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)
Jason Zerdin Somerville Now works for 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)
Nam-Kil Kang Somerville Dr Kang is now a Lecturer in Korea.	Professor J. Higginbotham	Reflexives and the linking theory in Universal Grammar	Dr D. F. Cram and Dr H. Hoji (University of London)
Peter Chew Jesus Dr Chew is now a Finance Consultant.	Dr J. S. Coleman	A Computational phonology of Russian	Dr S. Parkinson and Dr Dunstan Brown
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
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
Jana Dankovicova St Hugh's Dr Dankavicova is Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics at 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
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
Alessandro Capone Magdalen at the University of Salento. His thesis was published in Italy.	Dr Yan Huang	Modality and Discourse	Professor Sally McConnell Ginet (Cornell) and Professor J. Higginbotham
Wen-Chao Li LMH Book published by Peter Lang, New York. 1999. Dr Li is now Assistant Professor of Linguistics at San Francisco State University	Dr J. S. Coleman	A diachronically motivated segmental phonology of Modern Chinese	Dr S. Parkinson and Professor Richard Wiese
1996
Jane Stuart Smith Somerville Thesis published by OUP as Phonetics and Philology: the development of the PIE voiced aspirates in Italic. Dr Stuart Smith is 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
David Willis St John's Book published by OUP in 1998. Dr Willis is now Senior Lecturer in Historical Linguistics, University of Cambridge.	Professor D. E. Evans	Syntactic change in Welsh	Professor T. Charles Edwards, and Dr Maggie Tallerman
Jin Zhou Worcester	Professor J. Aitchison	A study of speech errors in Mandarin Chinese	Dr J. Coleman and Professor M. Garman (Reading)
Mathew Saxton Oriel Dr Saxton is now a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development at the 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)
Torsten Meissner St Hugh's Thesis published by OUP. Dr Meissner is now University Lecturer in Classical Philology and Linguistics at 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)
Matthew Whelpton St Peter's Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the 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)
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)