Students - Jessica Coon

PhD theses

in prog – Terrance Gatchalian, PhD co-supervisor (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle)
2024 – William Johnston, PhD co-supervisor (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle): Event structure and serial verbs in Hmong
2023 – Clint Parker, PhD supervisor: A Grammar of the Shughni Language
2022 – Justin Royer, PhD co-supervisor (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle): Elements of (in)definiteness and binding: A Mayan perspective
2020 – Henrison Hsieh, PhD committee member: Beyond nominative: A broader view of A’-dependencies in Tagalog
2019 – Jiajia Su, PhD committee member: Plurality in Second Language Chinese
2015 – Michael Hamilton, PhD supervisor: The syntax of Mi’gmaq: A configurational account
2014 – Alexandra Simonenko, PhD committee member: Grammatical ingredients of definiteness
2014 – Yusuke Imanishi (MIT), PhD committee member: Default ergative

PhD evaluation papers

in prog – Katya Morgunova, PhD eval paper co-supervisor (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle)
2024 – Willie Myers, PhD eval paper co-supervisor (with Junko Shimoyama): The form and force of Kirundi exclamatives.
2022 – Terrance Gatchalian, PhD eval paper co-supervisor (with James Crippen): Building Ktunaxa causatives
2022 – Jonathan Palucci, PhD eval paper co-supervisor (with Luis Alonso-Ovalle): Modal ingredients of have: Disentangling causers from engineers.
2021 – Michaela Socolof, PhD eval paper co-supervisor (with Martina Martinović): Constraining Agree: A unified approach to basic and inverse agreement in Georgian.
2021 – Connie Ting, PhD eval paper co-supervisor (with Heather Goad): Malagasy n-bonding: A licensing approach
2020 – Justin Royer, PhD eval paper co-supervisor (with Michael Wagner): Prosody as syntactic evidence: The view from Mayan.
2019 – Clint Parker, PhD eval paper supervisor (with Janine Metallic): Painting the picture of Indigenous language revitalization in Canada: Contexts and practices.
2019 – Mathieu Paillé, PhD eval paper co-supervisor (with Nico Baier): Broad focus and VSO in Colloquial Malay
2019 – Justin Royer, PhD eval paper co-supervisor (with Aron Hirsch): The role of noun classifiers in the composition of the Chuj DP.
2018 – Clint Parker, PhD eval paper co-supervisor (with Lisa Travis): Agreement, clitic-doubling, and vestigial ergativity in Shughni
2017 – Jurij Božič, PhD eval paper co-supervisor (with Lisa Travis): Non-Local Allomorphy in a Strictly Local System
2013 – Michael Hamilton, PhD eval paper co-supervisor (with Alan Bale): Phrase structure in Mi’gmaq: A configurational account of a “non-configurational” language

MA theses

in prog – Kanontienenhtha’ Brass, MA supervisor.
2023 – Tarynne Pachano, MA co-supervisor (with Janine Metallic): A Chisasibi Cree Language Project.
2017 – Dejan Milacic, MA thesis paper co-supervisor (with Bernhard Schwarz): On the limits of number features: The case for a non-featural dual (LingBuzz)
2016 – Colin Brown, MA thesis supervisor (with Lisa Travis): Extraction restrictions in Gitksan
2015 – Yuliya Manyakina, MA thesis co-supervisor (with Lisa Travis): Two types of “incoporation” in Mi’gmaq
2013 – Gretchen McCulloch, MA thesis supervisor: Verb stem composition in Mi’gmaq
2012 – Jenny Loughran, MA thesis supervisor: Tense and evidentiality in Mi’gmaq

BA theses

in prog – Sophia Flaim, BA Honours thesis supervisor.
2024 – Chase Boles, Ba Honours thesis supervisor: Stowaway themes: Incorporation, nPs, and possession in Kanien’kéha. [PDF]
2022 – Jack Paul Ryan, BA Honours thesis supervisor: Gender impoverishment and syncretisms in Onondaga non-local configurations.
2019 – Benjamin Oldham, BA Honours thesis supervisor: Syntactic variation in Chichewa applicatives.
2017 – Lydia Felice, BA Honours thesis supervisor: The Free State and Construct State in Kabyle.
2017 – Sarah Mihuc, BA Honours thesis so-supervisor (with Michael Wagner): Focus, extraction, and anti-agreement in Kabyle.
2016 – Cora Lesure, BA Honours thesis co-supervisor (with Lauren Clemens): Prosodic Boundary Marking in Ch’ol: Acoustic Indicators and Their Applications [PDF]
2015 – Louisa Bielig, BA Honours thesis supervisor: Classifiers and constraints in Chuj topic constructions [PDF]
2013 – Liwen Hou, BA Honours thesis co-supervisor (with Robert Henderson): Agent Focus in Chuj reflexive constructions [PDF]
2012 – Elise McClay, BA Honours thesis supervisor: Possession in Mi’gmaq [PDF]