Current and Ex PhD students

These are some of my current and past PhD students with topics and links to their webpages.

Current PhD Students

  • Yasir Alotaibi
    Yasir is working on conditionals. He started in October 2010, following a 4 year Doctoral Programme in Linguistics. Email yhalot AT essex.ac.uk

  • Muhammad AlZaidi
    Muhammad is looking at Information Structure in Arabic, from the perspective of LFG. He started in October 2010 after completing an MA in Linguistics in the Department. Email msalza AT essex.ac.uk

  • Anas Al Aayed
    Anas' thesis is concerned with the syntax of relative clauses in Arabic. He is working in LFG (and possibly with xle) Anas started in April 2010 after completing an MA in Linguistics in the Department. Email aalaay AT essex.ac.uk

  • Ahmad Al Sharif
    Ahmad will be working on a topic in Arabic syntax in LFG. He started in October 2008, having completed an MA in Linguistics in the Department. Ahmad's homepage and email aalshaa AT essex.ac.uk

  • Budour Al Sharifi
    Budour will be working on a topic in Arabic syntax in LFG. She started in October 2008, having completed an MA in Linguistics in the Department. Budour's homepage and email yaalsh AT essex.ac.uk

  • Farah Akbar
    Farah's topic is argument structure and morphosyntax in Malay. The framework of reference is LFG. She started in October 2006, having completed an MA in Computational Linguistics in the Department. Farah's homepage and email fakbar AT essex.ac.uk

    • Past Students

  • Kakia Chatsiou
    Kakia's thesis is concerned with the syntax of Modern Greek relative clauses, including free relatives and non-restrictive relatives, with particular reference to resumption phenomena. The framework is LFG. She started in October 2005 and handed in her dissertation in September 2009, her doctorate was awarded in July 2010. She is currently working in the Data Archive at the University. Kakia's homepage and email achats AT essex.ac.uk

  • Despina Kazana
    Despina's thesis is on agreement and coordination, focussing on the NP in Modern Greek, within the LFG framework. Despina was a full-time student in 2004-5 and then transferred to part-time. She worked at Suffolk College during part of her time as a PhD student. She is currently working as a civil servant in Greece. Her thesis can be downloaded HERE

  • Maria Flouraki
    Maria completed a thesis in October 2004 on tense and aspect in Modern Greek within the framework of HPSG, having started in October 2000. She has been working as a secondary school teacher in Crete and is currently a teaching fellow in Syntax and Semantics at SOAS. Her email is mf44 AT soas.ac.uk or mflour AT hotmail.com

  • Natalia Brines-Moya
    Natalia completed a thesis on the causative/inchoative alternation in Spanish within the framework of HPSG in October 2000. She then moved to a job in Natural Language Processing in Berlin.

  • Ana Luis
    Ana completed a thesis on the interface between morphology and syntax, working mainly in Paradigm Function Morpology, with LFG as the syntactic framework of reference. I was involved in her thesis to advise on the LFG. Ana teaches at the University of Coimbra, in the Faculty of English. aluis@ci.uc.pt

  • Masako Ohara completed her thesis on Japanese Light Verbs in LFG in 2000. Masako currently holds a lectureship in Japan.

  • Valia Kordoni completed her thesis on Modern Greek Psychological Predicates in HPSG in 2002. Valia is currently working as a lecturer in Computational Linguistics at the University of the Saarland in Saarbruecken. Valia's webpage and email: kordoni@coli.uni-sb.de

  • Salah Al-Najem Salah Al-Najem completed his PhD in 1998 on A Computational Approach to Arabic Morphology, using the DATR. Salah is currently working at the University of Kuwait in the Department of Arabic. Salah's webpage and email alnajem@alnajem.com

  • Andrew Bredenkamp Andrew completed his PhD, entitled Towards a Binding Theory for HPSG, in 1996. He is currently director of Acrolinx, a spinoff company from the DFKI. Andrew's webpage and email andrewb@acrolinx.com

  • Josef van Genabith Josef is currently a member of staff in the School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University. He wrote his thesis (completed 1993) on implementing DRT. He is very much involved in LFG treebanking, together with his colleague (and Essex graduate) Andy Way. Josef's webpage and email josef@compapp.dcu.ie

  • Stella Markantonatou Stella wrote her thesis in 1993 on Nominalisation in Modern Greek, providing an analysis using the Lexical Mapping Theory of LFG. Stella is currently working at the ILSP in Athens. She has coordinated a number of projects funded by the Greek government, including a style checker for controlled Greek, and a project on shallow parsing (using FSNs) for Greek. ILSP Homepage and Stella's email: marks@ilsp.gr

  • Bertrade Banoum (formerly MBom) Bertrade is currently a member of staff in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the City University of New York. She wrote her thesis on Tense and Aspect in Basaa (Bantu, Cameroon).
    • Louisa Sadler,
    (louisa@essex.ac.uk),
    Department of Language and Linguistics,
    University of Essex,
    Wivenhoe Park,
    Colchester, UK.

    Created November 1996; last update 6/10/10