I have supervised a large number of postgraduate students
working on a wide range of syntactic and semantic topics, from formal descriptions
through to first language acquisition. The following list gives a selection
of PhDs completed with me as principal or co-supervisor, with year
of completion and current affiliations (where known):
- 1990 Anna Gavarro (Catalan University, Barcelona) Syntactic theory and the
grammar of Catalan compounds
- 1991 Mary E Tait Syntactic representation of morphological dependencies
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1994 Ivan A Uemlianin The category of 'subject' and first language acquisition (with J R Hurford)
- 1994 Catrin Rhys (Queens Belfast) Functional projections and thematic role assignment in Chinese
(with E Engdahl)
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1995 Rev. K. Nagita (University of Kelaniya) Estate Tamil:
A morphosyntactic study
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1995 Dimitra Kolliakou (University of Newcastle) Definites
and possessives in Modern Greek: an HPSG syntax for noun phrases
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1996 Diane Nelson (University of Leeds) X0 categories and
agreement in Finnish
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1996 Catriona McPherson Reference, existence and truth in discourse
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1997 Diego Molla Aliod (Macquarrie) Aspectual composition
and sentence interpretation: a formal approach
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1998 Miriam Eckert Discourse deixis and null anaphora
in German
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1999 Satu Manninen (Lund) Manner adverbials and the structure of Finnish sentences:
a minimalist approach (with C Heycock)
- 1999 Theodora Alexopoulou (Cambridge) The syntax of discourse functions in Greek:
a non-configurational approach (with C Heycock)
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1999 Etsuko Oishi (Hokkaido) Indicating
and Referring: a speech act approach to communicative meaning
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1999 Iraide Ibarretxe (Berkeley)
Polysemy
and Metaphor in Perception Verbs: a cross-linguistic study
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1999 Ludovica Serratrice (Manchester)
Bilingual
First language acquisition and the Emergence of Syntax
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2000 Kook Hee Gil (Sheffield): A Formal Approach to Long Distance
Anaphora: the case of Korean
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2000 Stephen Nightingale Polysemy and homonymy in Japanese
Verbal Alternations.
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2000 Max Louwerse From Cohesion in Text to Coherence
in Comprehension
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2001 Patricia Mabugu (Harare) Polysemy and the Applicative Verb Construction in ChiShona
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2001 Martha Robinson Perfective Auxiliaries, Aspect
and Grammaticalisation in Spanish
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2002 Anna Babarczy (Budapest) First Language Acquisition of Hungarian(with J R Hurford)
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2003 Hee-Cheol Yoon Word order structure of Old English with special reference to Aelfric's Catholic Homilies
- 2003 Dan Wedgwood Predication and information structure: a dynamic account of
Hungarian pre-verbal syntax (with C Heycock)
- 2003 Aaron Drews The phonology of second dialect acquisition (with H Giegerich)
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2004 Virve Vihman Valency reduction in Estonian
- 2005 Yicheng Wu (Zheijiang) The dynamics of left and right dislocation in Chinese
- 2006 Margaret Sim Relevance theory and the interpretation of hina in New testament greek (with L Hurtado)
- 2008 Stavros Assimakopoulos (Malta) Logical structure and relevance.
- 2008 Etsuko Yoshida (Mie University) Patterns of use of referring expressions in English and Japanese dialogues. <\li>
- 2009 Merilin Miljan (Talinn) Grammatical case in Estonian.
- 2009 Ian Underwood Natural language semantics: a naturalistic approach.
- 2010 Wenshan Li A Dynamic Syntax account of argument realisation in Mandarin Chinese
- 2011 Anna Martowicz The origin and function of circumstantial clause markers: a crosslinguistic study.
- 2015. Darryl Turner. The morpho-syntax of Katcha nominals: a Dynamic Syntax account.