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-supervised with Mike Hammond
University of Arizona

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-supervised with Heidi Harley
Mango Languages

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

Othman Alshehri (2023). The Syntax and Semantics of Arabic Possession.
Co-Supervised with Heidi Harley
Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU)

Ibrahim Asiri (2024). Pronouns Functioning as Syntactic Heads in Equative and Predicative Constructions in Arabic:A Minimalist Perspective.
King Khalid University

External Dissertation Reviewer

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

Lewis Gebhardt (2009). Numeral Classifiers and the Structure of DP. Northwestern University, Chicago.

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 Advisee