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Projects by Alumni
Projects by alumni are listed below by year initiated. To see your project included, please write to ireneyi [at] stanford.edu (Irene Yi) or yltan [at] stanford.edu (Yin Lin Tan).
| RESEARCHER(S) | LANGUAGE | REGION | FOCUS | FUNDING | YEAR(S) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Borgeson | Estonian | Stanford, CA, Tartu (Estonia) | Consonant gradation, "Q3" | 2018-2019 | |
| Scott Borgeson | Yoruba | Stanford, CA | Serial verb constructions, field methods class | 2018 | |
| Scott Borgeson | Estonian | SF Bay Area, Tallinn (Estonia) | Verb-Second in Estonian | 2017-2018 | |
| Eva Portelance | Lithuanian | SF Bay Area | Verb stranding ellipsis | 2017-2018 | |
| Rebekah Baglini, Ciyang Qing, Daisy Leigh, Reuben Cohn-Gordon, Alex Wade, Gwynn Lyons, Kate Lindsey | Amharic | Stanford, CA | Field Methods class | Department of Linguistics | 2016 |
| Kate Lindsey | Ende | Papua New Guinea | Morphophonology, word order | Department of Linguistics Fieldwork Grant, Firebird Fellowship, Braden Storytelling Grant | 2015-2019 |
| Bonnie Krejci | Marathi | SF Bay Area | Case, anaphora, experiencer subjects, wh- questions | Department of Linguistics graduate research funding | 2013-2019 |
| Sharese King | English | Rochester, NY | The diversity of African American English | Department of Linguistics | 2017 |
| Teresa Pratt | English | San Francisco, CA | Variation in an arts high school | Department of Linguistics | 2017 |
| Bonnie Krejci, Kate Lindsey, Sunwoo Jeong, James Bradbury, Grace Muzny, Jon Gauthier, Junling Zhu, Will Monroe, Yesid Castro | Czech | Stanford, CA | Field Methods workshop | Department of Linguistics | 2015 |
| Lelia Glass | Mandarin | Stanford, CA | yiwei, a negatively biased belief verb | 2014-2016 | |
| Kate Lindsey | Chuvash | Estonia | Phonetics, morphophonology | Department of Linguistics Fieldwork Grant | 2014-2015 |
| Sharese King, Jeremy Calder | African American English | Bakersfield, CA | Phonetic variation and identity | Department of Linguistics Fieldwork Grant | 2014 |
| Daniel Galbraith | Faroese | Faroe Islands | Meter of folk ballads | Department of Linguistics Fieldwork Grant and Grant from Faroe Island University | 2014 |
| Julia Fine | Kodiak Alutiiq | Kodiak, Alaska | Complex predicates, anaphora, binding | Stanford undergraduate research funding | 2014 |
| Jeremy Calder | English | San Francisco | Semiotic construction of gender performances among SoMa drag queens | DDRO | 2013-2017 |
| Lev Blumenfeld | Nauruan | Central Pacific | Phonology and morphology | SSHRC Insight Development Grant (Canada) | 2014- |
| Masoud Jasbi | Persian | Tehran, Iran and the SF Bay Area | Semantics of definites and indefinites | Department of Linguistics | 2013-2018 |
| Teresa Pratt | English | Ohio | Dialectology and language idealogy | Department of Linguistics Fieldwork Grant | 2013-2014 |
| James Collins | Ilokano | SF Bay Area | Semantics of wh- expressions, quantifier particles | 2013-2014 | |
| Benjamin Lokshin | Korean | Northeast China | Speech levels | Stanford undergraduate research funding, grant from the Stanford Center for East Asian Studies | 2013 |
| Phil Crone | Modern Standard Arabic, Lebanese Arabic | SF Bay Area | First conjunct agreement, clause structure | Department of Linguistics graduate research funding | 2013 |
| Kate Lindsey | Chuvash | Chuvashia, Russia | Language shift, prestige, attitudes | Fulbright U.S. Student Grant | 2012-2013 |
| Bonnie Krejci | Kazakh | SF Bay Area | Lexical categories, case | Department of Linguistics graduate research funding | 2012-2013 |
| Benjamin Lokshin, Sam Bowman | Kazakh | SF Bay Area | Idiosyncratic transparency in Kazakh vowel harmony | 2012-2013 | |
| Janneke Van Hofwegen | Kazakh | SF Bay Area | Noun phrase structure | 2012-2013 | |
| Hanzhi Zhu | Kazakh | SF Bay Area | Case, agreement and raising | Undergraduate major grant | 2012-2013 |
| Kate Geenberg | English | Trinity County, CA | Stylistic use of "country" features and "Indian English" features by rural, inland California speakers | NSF | 2012 |
| Roey Gafter | Hebrew | Greater Tel-Aviv Area, Israel | Ethnic identity and sociolinguistic variation | GRO and DDRO | 2012 |
| Janneke Van Hofwegen | Lithuanian | SF Bay Area | Definiteness marking and NP structure | Department of Linguistics graduate research funding | 2012 |
| Dasha Popova | Khanty (Ostyak) | Tegi, (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra), Russia | Focus particles and negation | Expeditions with Moscow State Lomonosov University | 2011-2012 |
| Kyuwon Moon | Seoul Korean | Seoul, Korea | Stylistic variation of young women | 2011-2012 | |
| Robin Melnick | Turkish | SF Bay Area | Syntactic island constraints | 2011-2012 | |
| Annette D'Onofrio | English | Minnesota | Stylistic use of linguistic features from a second learned langauge (Korean) in first language (English) | 2011 | |
| James Collins | Samoan | Samoa, Sydney and the SF Bay Area | Case, clause structure, the semantics of indefinites | Department of Linguistics graduate research funding and Australian Linguistics Society scholarship | 2010-present |
| Robert Munro | Matses | Estiron and Angamos, The Amazon | Reported discourse and evidentiality | Stanford Graduate Fellowship | 2008-2009 |
| Scott Grimm | Dagaare | Ghana, West Africa | Number marking | Stanford Center of African Studies and NSF | 2008 |
| Lauren Hall-Lew | English | San Francisco, CA | Ethnicity and dialectology | 2007-2008 | |
| Rebecca Dayle Greene | English | Eastern Kentucky | Sociophonetics and ideologies of Appalachian English | Stanford Graduate Research Opportunity Grant | 2007 |
| Lauren Hall-Lew and Nola Stephens | English | Rural Texas and Oklahoma | Language attitudes, linguistic identity, and the enregisterment of Country Talk | Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences | 2007 |
| Matthew Adams | Yucatec Maya | Quintana Roo, Mexico | Verbal voice through tone | 2007 | |
| Jason Grafmiller | Yucatec Maya | Quintana Roo, Mexico | Grammatical features of Maya | 2007 | |
| Rebecca Starr | Mandarin, English | West Coast, North America | Acquisition of sociolinguistic knowledge in dual immersion programs | 2006-2007 | |
| Alex Jaker | Weledeh Dogrib | North-West Territories, Canada | Phonetics phonology and morphology | Goyatiko Language Center, NSF Arctic Social Sciences Program, Stanford GRO | 2005-2009 |
| Lauren Hall-Lew | Twi, Fante | Southern Ghana, Africa | Phonology and dialectology | Stanford Graduate Fellowship | 2005 |
| Andrew Koontz-Garboden | Ulwa | Karawala, Nicaragua | Adjective and verb semantics | Fulbright-Hays Scholarship and Stanford graduate research funding | 2004-2006 |
| Lauren Hall-Lew | English | Arizona | Dialectology | The Flinn Foundation, Stanford Dept of Linguistics | 2004 |
| Rebecca Dayle Greene | Japanese | Hirosaki, Osaka and Tokyo, Japan | Changing language attitudes | Stanford Japanese and Linguistics departmental funding | 2004 |
| Elisabeth Norcliffe | Tzotzil (Mayan) | Chiapas, Mexico | Anaphoric relations | NSF funding and Stanford Department of Linguistics funding | 2004 |
| Andrew Koontz-Garboden | Tongan | East Palo Alto, CA | Adjective and verb semantics | 2003-2004 | |
| Mary Rose | English | Wisconsin | Social meaning of local sociophonetic variables | Graduate research award | 2003 |
| Tatiana Nikitina | Wan (Mande, Niger-Congo) | Cote-d'Ivoire, West Africa | Wan syntax | 2003 | |
| Judith Tonhauser | Yucatec Maya | Quintana Roo, Mexico | Information-structural properties of the agent focus verb form | Stanford Center for Latin American Studies | 2001-2003 |
| Sarah Bunin Benor | Orthodox Jewish English | Philadelphia | Language socialization, adult style acquisition | Foundation for Jewish Culture | 2001-2002 |
| Martina Faller | Cuzco Quechua | Cusco, Peru | Evidentials | Tinker Field Research Grant; Graduate Research Opportunity Grant, Dissertation Grant, NSF | 1998-2001 |
| Ida Toivonen | Inari Saami | Lapland, Finland | General language description, numeral system, sound quantity, agreement morphology | 1997-2001 | |
| Sarah Bunin Benor | Ladino | Israel | Lexical othering (words used to refer to non-group members) | Dorot Fellowship | 1997-1998 |