Theses and dissertations supervised
Alestine Andre 2006. Nan t’aih nakwits’inahtsìh : The land gives us strength : the medicine plants used by Gwich’in people of Canada’s western Arctic to maintain good health and well being. MA thesis, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Victoria. (Co-supervisor with Nancy J. Turner and Christine Welch)
Adar Anisman. 2019. When if is when and when is then: The particle nı̨dè in Tłı̨chǫ. PhD dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Kazuya Bamba. 2013. The “Selflessness” of Grammar: A Diachronic Study on Romance reflexives. BA Honours thesis. (Co-supervisor with Martha McGinnis)
David Beck. 1995. A comparative conceptual grammar of Bella Coola and Lushootseed. MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Hailey Hyekyeong Ceong. 2012. The Syntax of Korean polar alternative questions: A-not-A. MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Hailey Hyekyeong Ceong. 2019. The morphosyntax of clause typing: Single, double, periphrastic, and multifunctional complementizers in Korean. PhD dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Haley De Korne. 2009. Indigenous language education policy: supporting community-controlled immersion. MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria. (Co-supervisor with Hossein Nassaji) Published as: De Korne, H. 2010. Indigenous language education policy: supporting
community-controlled immersion in Canada and the US. Language Policy 9(2): 115–141.
Odelia Dennis. 2020. Tahltan Word Formation: Considerations for Creating New Words in Tāłtān. MA thesis, Master’s in Indigenous Language Revitalization, Departments of Linguistics and Indigenous Education, University of Victoria.
Margaret Erasmus. 2019. Goyatıı̀ K’aàt’ıı̀ Ats’edee, K’aàt’ıı̀ Adets’edee: Ho! MA thesis, Master’s in Indigenous Language Revitalization, Departments of Linguistics and Indigenous Education, University of Victoria.
Dianne Friesen. 2022. A Grammar of Relationship: How Mi’kmaw verbs indicate the relationship between participants in a sentence. PhD dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria. Recipient of the 2023 Gold Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in the Humanities.
Soo Youn Ham. 2008. Tsilhqut’in ejectives: A descriptive phonetic study. MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Aliki Marinakis. 2004. Seeking simplicity : the preference for minimal syllable structure in Dogrib . MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria. (Co-supervisor with Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins)
Dale R. McCreery. 2024. Narratives of Language, Health, and Identity: Pursuing well-being through Indigenous language revitalization. PhD dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria. (Co-supervisor with Li-Shih Huang)
Tadao Miyamoto. 1997. The light verb construction in Japanese : the role of the verbal noun. PhD dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria. Available as The Light Verb Construction in Japanese: The Role of the Verbal Noun (1999), https://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/la.29/main
Julie Kāshā Morris. 2017. K’asba’e T’oh: sustaining the intergenerational transmission of Tāłtān. MA thesis, Master’s in Indigenous Language Revitalization, Departments of Linguistics and Indigenous Education, University of Victoria. (Co-supervisor with Onowa McIvor)
Art Napoleon. 2014. Key terms and concepts for exploring Nîhiyaw Tâpisinowin the Cree worldview. MA thesis, Master’s in Indigenous Language Revitalization, Departments of Linguistics and Indigenous Education, University of Victoria.
Aliana Parker. 2012. Learning the language of the land. MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria. (Co-supervisor with Lorna Williams)
Linda R. Smith. 2008. Suwh-ts’eghedudinh: the Tsinlhqut’in niminh spiritual path. MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Tammy Steinwand-Deschambeault. 2018. A mini-collection of children’s activities to stimulate Tłı̨chǫ Yatıı̀ in the home. Master’s project, MEd in Indigenous Language Revitalization, Departments of Linguistics and Indigenous Education, University of Victoria.
Melissa Svendsen. 2000. The Typology of Wh-Questions: An Optimality Theoretic Approach. MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Fibbie Tatti. 2015. The Wind Waits For No One: Nı̨hts’ı Dene Ası̨́ Henáoréhɂı̨́le Ǫt’e: Spirituality in a Sahtúgot’ı̨nę Perspective. MA thesis, Master’s in Indigenous Language Revitalization, Departments of Linguistics and Indigenous Education, University of Victoria.
Laura Tutcho. 2016. Ets’ulah: The language is like ets’ulah. Master’s project, MEd in Indigenous Language Revitalization, Departments of Linguistics and Indigenous Education, University of Victoria.
Erika VanVliet. 2013. By in idioms: syntax and semantics. BA Honours thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Nicholas Welch. 2008. Northwest passage: Northern Athabaskan copulas and auxiliaries. MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Shannon West. 2003. Subjects and objects in Assiniboine Nakoda. MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Marie Louise Willett. 2004. A grammatical sketch of Nxa’amxcin (Moses-Columbia Salish). PhD dissertation, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria. (Co-supervisor with Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins)
Matthew Windsor. 2013. Second Position Clitics in Koine Greek: A Syntax-Phonology Interface Account. BA Honours thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria.
Contributions to dissertations on interdisciplinary topics involving language
Carla Burton. 2013. Wilaat Hooxhl Nisga’ahl (Galdoo’o) (Ýans): Gik’uuhl-gi, Guuń-sa ganhl Angoogaḿ = Using plants the Nisga’a way : past, present and future use. PhD dissertation, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria. (Supervisor: Nancy J. Turner)
Brock Thorbjorn Pitawanakwat. 2009. Anishinaabemodaa Pane Oodenang: a qualitative study of Anishinaabe language revitalization as self-determination in Manitoba and Ontario . PhD dissertation, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria. (Supervisor: Taiaiake Alfred)
Edōsdi Judith Thompson. 2012. Hedekeyeh Hots’ih Kāhidi – “Our Ancestors are in us”: strengthening our voices through language revitalization from a Tahltan worldview. PhD dissertation, Interdisciplinary Program, University of Victoria. (Co-supervisors: Nancy J. Turner and Elizabeth Ann Marshall)
External examiner for theses, projects, and dissertations
Crystal Akers. 2001. External examiner on Navajo syntax, Honors Program, Department of Linguistics, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA.
Anna Beals. 2004. Northern expressions: understanding collaboration in northern Canadian nurses’ practice. Master of Nursing, University of Victoria.
Adriana Chamorro. 1992. On Mohawk Word Order. MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, McGill University.
Vincenza Gruppuso. 1995. The process dissociation procedure and similarity: Defining and estimating recollection and familiarity in recognition memory. MA thesis, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria.
Janelle Kuntz. 2016. Tłı̨chǫ women and the environmental assessment of the NICO Project proposed by Fortune Minerals Limited. MA thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria.
Jeffrey Mühlbauer. 2008. kâ-yôskâtahk ôma nêhiyawêwin: the representation of intentionality in Plains Cree. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Linguistics, UBC. (“University Examiner”)
Deidre Sanders. 1995. MA, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria.
Katharine Soles. 2009. Skepticism, illusion and rigourous observation: Marianne Moore’s poetic pursuit of hope. MA thesis, Department of English, University of Victoria.
Jasmine Spencer. 2011. Surfaces and Depths in François Mandeville’s Dene Sųłiné Story, “How Copper Was Discovered”. MA, Department of English, University of Victoria.
Laura Strong. 1999. MA, Department of English, University of Victoria.
Patrick Sullivan. 2007. MA, Department of English, University of Victoria.
Jennifer Thorburn. 2006. Language Attitudes and Use in the Innu Community of Sheshatshiu, Labrador. MA thesis, Department of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
L. Camille van der Marel. 2010. MA, Department of English, University of Victoria.
Anna Wortberg. 2018. Narrative structure of Lekwungen stories. Bachelor of Arts thesis, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Fakultët Kulturwissenschaften, Technische Universitët Dortmund, Germany.
Candidacy papers in syntax, semantics, language revitalization, and interdisciplinary studies: past [some titles are not currently recoverable]
Douaa Alkutbi. 2014. The derivation of resumptive Ɂilli-relatives in Makkan Arabic. (Linguistics)
Adar Anisman. 2015. Anaphora, agreement and binding in Khalkha Mongolian. (Linguistics)
Adar Anisman, 2016. The future in Tłı̨chǫ Yatıı̀. (Linguistics)
Allison Benner. 2006. (Linguistics) Published as: Benner, A. 2005. A unified analysis of the Slave particle gha. In Proceedings of the 2005 Dene Languages Conference, 1-12 and Benner, A. 2005. Canadian Linguistic Association Conference Proceedings.
Carla Burton. 2007. (Environmental Studies)
Hailey Hyekyeong Ceong. 2016. Korean hearsay constructions and Speech Act Phrases. (Linguistics) Published as: Ceong, Hailey Kyekyeong. 2016. Korean hearsay constructions and Speech Act Phrases. Proceedings of the 2016 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
Dianne Friesen. 2018. Rethinking the morpheme –eke: Steps toward understanding transitivity in Mi’kmaq. (Linguistics)
Yuko Igarashi. 2006. (Linguistics)
Raj Khatri. 2017. Multifunctionality of le in Nepali. (Linguistics) Published as: Khatri, Raj. 2021. Multifunctionality of le in Nepali. Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle of the University of Victoria. 31(1), 1-24.
Thomas Magnuson. 2012. Complementizers in extemporaneous Japanese narrative. (Linguistics)
Dale McCreery. 2018. The Syntax of Questions and Answers in Nuxalk. (Linguistics)
Dale McCreery. 2018. Narratives of Language, Health and Identity: Pursuing Stl’mstaliwa (Linguistics)
Brock Pitawanakwat. 2007. Indigenous Revitalization (Methodology). (Indigenous Governance)
Carolyn Pytlyk. 2009. This sentence sucks to analyze: Can verbs behave as tough-predicates? (Linguistics) Published as: Pytlyk, C. 2011. This sentence sucks to analyse: Are suck, bite, blow, and work tough-predicates? Canadian Journal of Linguistics 56(2) : 247-266.
Xiaojuan Qian. 2015. The ordering of attributive adjectives and relative clauses in Chinese DPs. (Linguistics)
David Robertson. 2006. An Additional Pronoun and Hierarchies in Creolized Chinúk Wawa. (Linguistics) Published as: Robertson, D. 2007. An Additional Pronoun and Hierarchies in Creolized Chinúk Wawa. In Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives on Contact Languages, ed. by Magnus Huber and Viveka Velupillai, Benjamins, 129–158.
Jun Tian, 2007. The BA construction in Mandarin Chinese. (Linguistics)