Ph.D. Dissertations

Guirardello, Raquel.  1999.  A grammar of Trumai.  Rice University.  (Honorable Mention, 1999 SSILA Mary Haas Book Award). Raquel’s website

Meira, Sérgio.  1999.  A First Grammar of Tiriyó.  Rice University.  1999 John Gardner award for the outstanding dissertation in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Rice University; 2000 SSILA Mary Haas Book Award.  Partially supported by NSF Grant No. DBS-9210130, plus NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant No. BCS-9818244.

Fleck, David. 2003.  A grammar of Matses (Panoan).  Rice University.

Fox, Desrey Caesar.  2003.  Zauro’nödok Agawayo Yau: Variants of Akawaio spoken at Waramadong.  Rice.  Partially supported by NSF Grant No. BCS-0117619.  †RIP 11 December, 2009.

Tavares, Petronila. 2005.  A Grammar of Wayana.  Rice University. Partially supported by NSF Grant No. DBS-9210130, plus NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant No. BCS-9909118.

Oliveira, Christiane.  2005.  The Language of the Apinajé People of Central Brazil. UO.

Yamada, Racquel.  2010.  Speech Community-Based Documentation, Description, and Revitalization: Kari'nja in Konomerume. UO.  Racquel’s website

Vallejos, Rosa. 2010.  A grammar of Kokama-Kokamilla.  UO.  2011 SSILA Mary Haas Book Award; Honorable Mention, 2011 Pānini Award, Association for Linguistic Typology.  Partially supported by NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant No. BCS- 0617188, ILDP.  Rosa’s website

Valdez, Yolanda.  2013.  Predication in Rarómuri (Urique Tarahumara). UO.

• MA Theses

Meira, Sérgio.  1998. A Reconstruction of Proto-Taranoan: Phonology and Inflectional Morphology.  Rice.

Vallejos, Rosa.  2004.  Basic clauses in Kokama-Kokamiya.  UO (co-directed with Doris Payne)

Stephens, Annette.  2005.  Switch-reference in Shoshone and comparative Numic.  UO (co-directed with Doris Payne)

Busch, John.  2007.  Verbal Nominalization in Kurtoep.  UO (co-directed with Scott DeLancey)

Wood, Daniel.  2008.  An initial reconstruction of Proto-Boro-Garo. UO (co-directed with Scott DeLancey)

Mathieu-Reeves, Danielle.  2009.  Reanalysis of Serial Verb Construction in Yimas, a Sepik-Ramu Language of Papua, New Guinea. UO (co-directed with Doris Payne).

Cramond, Paige.  2011.  Space: Movement and Location in Wintu. UO (co-directed with Scott DeLancey)

• MA Language Teaching Specialization Terminal Projects

Lin, Yu-Tzu.  2006.  A materials collection of vocabulary learning strategies for Taiwanese elementary school students studying English as a foreign language.

Lee, Jung-Soo.  2008.  Listening strategies, listening proficiency, and gender.

• Supervision of Postdoctoral Fellows

Racquel Yamada (2010-11), Aretyry Kari’nja (Carib): Training Native Speakers in Documentation, Description, and Materials Development.

Joana Jansen (2010-2013), Sahaptian and the Evolution of Hierarchical Systems.

Natalia Cáceres (2012), Effets d'attention et hiérarchies grammaticales : étude en ye'kwana, langue amazonienne du Venezuela

Flávia Castro Alves (2012-13), Marcação oblíqua de argumentos em Canela.

Natalia Cáceres (2015-18), Documentation of Yawarana (yar).

• Supervision of visiting scholars at the University of Oregon

Rosés Labrada, Jorge Emílio (2012), University of Western Ontario / Université Lumière Lyon 2

Ferreira Alves, Ana Carolina (2015-16), Universidade de São Paulo

Gonzalez Castaño, Geny (2016), Université Lumière Lyon 2

Díaz Montenegro, Esteban (2016), Université Lumière Lyon 2