Doctoral Advisees

Dissertation Supervision


Nayla Mohammed Ali Yateem (1997) Issues in word order [Download]
University of Bahrain

Jason Ginsburg (2009) Interrogative Features [Download]
Osaka Kyoiku University

Michael Anderson (2009) Ellipsis as a diagnostic tool of feature strength and the syntactic structure of Ilocano [Download]
Co-Supervised with Heidi Harley
Independent Writer

Jerid Francom (2009) Experimental Syntax: exploring the effect of repeated exposure to anomalous syntactic structure -- evidence from rating and reading tasks [Download]
Co-Supervised with Janet Nicol
Wake Forest University

Leila Lomashvili (2010) Morphosyntax of complex predicates in South Caucasian languages [Download]
Co-Supervised with Heidi Harley
Shawnee State University

Jeff Punske (2012) Aspects of the internal structure of nominalization: roots, morphology and derivation [Download]
Southern Illinois University

Gregory Key (2013) The Morphosyntax of the Turkish Causative Construction [Download]
Co-Supervised with Heidi Harley
Binghamton University

Deniz Tat (2013) Word Syntax of Nominal Compounds: Internal and Aphasiological Evidence from Turkish [Download]
Co-Supervised with Heidi Harley
Leiden University

Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh (2019) The Rhythmic Structure of Persian Poetic Meters
Co-Supervising with Mike Hammond

Rana Nicol Nabors (2019) A Comprehensive Analysis of Simple Verbs in Persian

Isabel McKay (2022) Intransitive Transitivity: The derivations of syntactically intransitive two-place predicates in Séliš-Ql̓ispé
Co-Supervising with Heidi Harley

Roya Kabiri (2022) Neural Dependency Parsing of Informal Persian
Co-Supervising with Mihai Surdeanu

External Dissertation Reviewer


Jila Ghomeshi (1996) Projection and Inflection: A Study of Persian Phrase Structure [Download]
University of Manitoba

Vahideh Rasekhi (2018) Ellipsis and Information Structure: Evidence from Persian
Stony Brook University

Mahdieh Eshaghi (2021) The role of Light Verbs in the Event Structure.
University of Tehran

Hassan Barzegar (2022) Lexical Aspect in Persian Complex Predicates
Shahid Beheshti University, Iran

Current Advisees


Othman Alshehri (expected defense 2023)

Ibrahim Asiri (expected defense 2024)

Saman Meihami (expected defense 2026)

Shahriar Hormozi (expected defense 2026)

Ahmed Alkuraydis (expected defense 2026)

Elham Mohammad Almotairy (expected defense 2026)