Graduate Student Supervision: MA and PhD

2022-  PhD co-supervisor (with Liz Smeets): Burcu Boran. LAL-DLLL, York U

2021-22, MRP supervisor LAL-DLLL, York University:

  • Wenyi Cai, 'Case Assignment: Agreement based versus Dependent Case Accounts';
  • Zachary Langstroth, 'A Critical Review of Research on the Japanese Passive Voice';
  • Enas El-Janabi, 'Raising in Modern Standard Arabic'.

2020-21, MRP supervisor: Burcu Boran, 'Underpassivization and Overpassivization Errors in Turkish ESL Learners: Psych verbs and unaccusatives,’ LAL-DLLL, York University

2019-   PhD supervisor: Anda Amelia Neagu, LAL-DLLL, York University

2018-2019         MRP supervisor: Yijun (Jerry) Li, 'Raising and Obligatory Control in Mandarin Chinese', LAL-DLLL, York University

2015-2017         MRP supervisor: Andrew Peters, ‘Structural Problems in the Syntax of Multiple-Modality Cross-Linguistically: A Feature-geometric approach’, LAL-DLLL, York University

2015-2016         MRP co-supervisor (with Philipp Angermeyer): Marina Tchistaia, ‘Language contact and Changes in Adpositional Constructions in North West Karaim,’ LAL-DLLL, York University

2014-2022         PhD supervisor: Gavin Bembridge: ‘Issues in Spanish Verbal Inflection: A Distributed Morphology Approach,’ LAL-DLLL, York University

2013-2014         MRP supervisor: Gavin Bembridge, ‘Cleft Constructions in Scottish Gaelic,’ LAL-DLLL, York University

2012-2016         PhD supervisor: Amer Ahmed, ‘Case in Standard Arabic: A Dependent case Approach,’ LAL-DLLL, York University

2010-2011         MRP supervisor: Amer Ahmed, ‘The Movement Theory of Control in Iraqi Arabic: A case for PRO or pro?’ MATAL-DLLL, York University

2010-2016         PhD supervisor: Iryna Lenchuk, ‘Aspect and Case in Interlanguage grammar: The Case of English learners of Russian,’ LAL-DLLL, York University

2009-2010        MRP supervisor: Taeyoul Kim, ‘The Korean Nominal Structure and Default Case,’ MATAL-DLLL, York University

2007-2010        MRP co-supervisor (with Ruth King): Daryl Chow, 'Singlish can say what?: A study of wh-in-situ in Singaporean English,’ MATAL-DLLL, York University

2007-2008       MRP supervisor MATAL-DLLL, York University:

  • Man (Victoria) Cheng, ‘Classifiers: A comparative study of Cantonese and Mandarin';
  • Laura Kisielyte, ‘On Argument Structure in Ndebele: Applicatives High and Low';
  • Sebastien Plante, 'Semantic Roles and Argument Structure: An overview'.

2005-2006       MRP supervisor: Milica Radisic, ‘Subject Raising and Obligatory Subject Control in Serbian,’ MATAL-DLLL, York University

2004-2005      MRP supervisor MATAL-DLLL, York University:

  • Masaaki Urano, ‘Japanese Particles and Syntactic Representation’;
  • Maia Sakvarelidze, ‘Properties of the Russian Reflexive  Morpheme SJA’.

2001-2002        Supervisor, MA Forum paper: Keir Moulton, ‘Clausal Modification in Old English: The Case of the Correlative,’ University of Toronto

1995-1996         Supervisor, MA thesis: Nicoleta Baciu, ‘Optimality and Verb-Second in Germanic,’ English Department, University of Bucharest