Undergraduate students who major in linguistics have the option to complete a thesis, and then to graduate with honors. Honors theses are written with support from faculty members who serve as the students’ research advisors. Every year, our honors students produce excellent linguistics research, in which they bring together all that they have learned and all the skills they have gained during their time in our Department. Congratulations to the students who graduated with honors in 2025!
- Amer Goel, Periphrastic and Simple Past Tense Syntax in Catalan. Supervisor: Natasha Abner
- Danny Dixon, Sensitivity to Verb Bias as a Continuous Variable in L1 and L2. Supervisor: Lisa Levinson. [Recipient of the 2025 Matt Alexander Award for outstanding honors thesis.]
- June E Harkrider, An Experimental Approach to Modal Particles in the Recent German Diaspora. Supervisors: Savithry Namboodiripad & Ezra Keshet
- Katie Hoyer, Tense, Aspect, Mood and Linearization: An Analysis of Guglielmo Cinque’s Verbal Orderings. Supervisor: Natasha Abner
- Maya Bajwa, The Role of Perspective-Taking on Blame Attribution in Autonomous Vehicle Dilemma Scenarios. Supervisor: Jessi Grieser
- Willow Sky Frederick, Conceptual Slang as a Reflection of Social Realities. Supervisors: Doug Merchant & Jessi Grieser
- Vivika Mathews, The Perception of Languages in South-India from the Perspective From Malayalees Across Three Generations. Supervisor: Savithry Namboodiripad
