Berkeley PhD dissertations in linguistics on Indigenous languages of the Americas
For a complete listing of Berkeley PhD dissertations in linguistics, see here.
| Year | Author | Title | Advisor |
| 1905 | Pliny Earle Goddard | Morphology of the Hupa language [publication PDF] | Benjamin Ide Wheeler |
| 1932 | Charles Voegelin | A characterization of the Kern River Shoshonean language [publication PDF] | A. L. Kroeber |
| 1955 | William Bright | A grammar of the Karok language | Mary Haas |
| 1957 | Sydney Lamb | Mono grammar [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1959 | Phillip Barker | The Klamath language | Mary Haas |
| 1959 | William Shipley | Maidu grammar | Mary Haas |
| 1960 | Sylvia Broadbent | A grammar of Southern Sierra Miwok | Mary Haas |
| 1961 | Robert Oswalt | A Kashaya grammar (Southwestern Pomo) | Mary Haas |
| 1962 | Wick Miller | The Acoma language | Mary Haas |
| 1962 | Karl Teeter | The Wiyot language | Mary Haas |
| 1963 | Catherine Callaghan | A grammar of the Lake Miwok language [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1963 | Terrence Kaufman | Tzeltal grammar [PDF] | William Shipley |
| 1963 | Esther Matteson | The Piro (Arawak) language [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1963 | Harvey Pitkin | Wintu grammar [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1964 | William Jacobsen | A grammar of the Washo language [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1965 | Haruo Aoki | Nez Perce grammar [PDF] | William Shipley |
| 1965 | Mary Foster | The Tarascan language [PDF] | Wallace Chafe |
| 1966 | James Crawford | The Cocopa language [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1966 | Margaret Langdon | A grammar of Diegueño: The Mesa Grande dialect [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1966 | Sally McLendon | The Eastern Pomo language | Mary Haas |
| 1966 | Shirley Silver | The Shasta language [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1967 | Russell Ultan | Konkow grammar [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1968 | Thomas Collord | Yokuts grammar: Chukchansi [PDF] | Terrence Kaufman |
| 1968 | Mary Marino | A dictionary of Winnebago: An analysis and reference grammar of the Radin lexical file | Dell Hymes |
| 1969 | Una Canger | Analysis in outline of Mam, a Mayan language [PDF] | Francis Whitfield |
| 1969 | David Rood | A Wichita grammar: A generative semantic sketch | Wallace Chafe |
| 1969 | Brian Stross | Aspects of language acquisition by Tzeltal children | Brent Berlin |
| 1969 | Allan Taylor | A grammar of Blackfoot [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1970 | Victor Golla | Hupa grammar [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1970 | Julius Moshinsky | Southeastern Pomo grammar [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1970 | Alva Wheeler | A grammar of the Siona language, Colombia, South America [PDF] | Terrence Kaufman |
| 1971 | Victor Girard | Proto-Carib phonology | Wallace Chafe |
| 1971 | Robert Hollow | A Mandan dictionary | |
| 1971 | Mauricio Mixco | Kiliwa grammar | Mary Haas |
| 1972 | Richard Applegate | Ineseno Chumash grammar [PDF] | Madison Beeler |
| 1972 | Douglas Parks | A grammar of Pawnee | Mary Haas |
| 1972 | Bruce Pearson | A grammar of Delaware: Semantics, morpho-syntax, lexicon, phonology | Mary Haas |
| 1972 | Leonard Talmy | Semantic structures in English and Atsugewi [PDF] | William Wang |
| 1974 | Michael Nichols | Northern Paiute historical grammar [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1975 | Geoffrey Gamble | Wikchumni grammar | Mary Haas |
| 1977 | Joseph Davidson | A contrastive study of the grammatical structures of Aymara and Cuzco Kechua | Mary Haas |
| 1977 | Brent Galloway | A grammar of Chilliwack Halkomelem [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1977 | Kathryn Klar | Topics in historical Chumash grammar [PDF] | Madison Beeler |
| 1977 | Marc Okrand | Mutsun grammar [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1977 | Robert Van Valin | Aspects of Lakhota syntax [PDF] | Wallace Chafe |
| 1978 | Jean-Pierre Beland | Atikamekw morphology and lexicon [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1980 | Kenneth Whistler | Proto-Wintun kin classification: A case study in reconstruction of a complex semantic system [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1981 | Anthony Woodbury | Study of the Chevak dialect of Central Yup'ik Eskimo [PDF] | Mary Haas |
| 1981 | Jon Dayley | Tzutujil grammar [PDF] | Wallace Chafe |
| 1981 | John Du Bois | The Sacapultec language [PDF] | Wallace Chafe |
| 1982 | David Shaul | A grammar of Nevome [PDF] | Jesse Sawyer |
| 1983 | Alan Shaterian | Phonology and dictionary of Yavapai [PDF] | Leanne Hinton |
| 1985 | Alice Shepherd | The Yukian language family [PDF] | Wallace Chafe |
| 1986 | Amy Dahlstrom | Plains Cree morphosyntax [PDF] | Wallace Chafe |
| 1987 | Monica Macaulay | Morphology and cliticization in Chalcatongo Mixtec [PDF] | Leanne Hinton |
| 1987 | Mary Catherine O'Connor | Topics in Northern Pomo grammar [PDF] | Charles Fillmore |
| 1987 | Katherine Turner | Aspects of Salinan grammar [PDF] | Wallace Chafe |
| 1988 | Thomas Larsen | Manifestations of ergativity in Quiché grammar [PDF] | Wallace Chafe |
| 1988 | Martha Macri | A descriptive grammar of Palenque Mayan [PDF] | Leanne Hinton |
| 1988 | James Watters | Topics in Tepehua grammar [PDF] | Charles Fillmore and Robert Van Valin |
| 1991 | Herbert Luthin | Restoring the voice in Yanan traditional narrative: Prosody, performance and presentational form | Leanne Hinton |
| 1991 | Lawrence Morgan | Description of the Kutenai language [PDF] | Leanne Hinton |
| 1991 | Stephen Wilson | Patterns of change in prosodic systems [PDF] | Gary Holland |
| 1992 | Eugene Buckley | Theoretical aspects of Kashaya phonology and morphology [PDF] | Larry Hyman |
| 1994 | David Costa | The Miami-Illinois language [publication link] | Richard Rhodes |
| 1997 | Anna Berge | Topic and discourse structure in West Greenlandic agreement constructions [PDF] | Richard Rhodes |
| 1999 | Jocelyn Ahlers | Proposal for the use of cognitive linguistics in Hupa language revitalization [PDF] | Eve Sweetser |
| 2002 | Brian Bielenberg | "Who will sing the songs?" Language renewal among Puebloan adolescents | Lily Wong Fillmore |
| 2003 | Laura Buszard-Welcher | Constructional polysemy and mental spaces in Potawatomi discourse [PDF] | Richard Rhodes |
| 2003 | Mary Romero | Perpetuating the Cochiti way of life: A study of child socialization and language shift in a Pueblo community | Lily Wong Fillmore |
| 2004 | Rosemary Beam de Azcona | A Coatlán-Loxicha Zapotec grammar [PDF] | Leanne Hinton |
| 2004 | Lisa Conathan | The linguistic ecology of Northwestern California: Contact, functional convergence and dialectology [PDF] | Andrew Garrett |
| 2004 | Christine Sims | Maintaining an oral language tradition: A study of language maintenance in the Acoma Pueblo community | Lily Wong Fillmore and Leanne Hinton |
| 2005 | William Weigel | Yowlumne in the twentieth century [PDF] | Leanne Hinton |
| 2007 | Wesley Leonard | Miami language reclamation in the home: A case study [PDF] | Leanne Hinton |
| 2007 | Esther Wood | The semantic typology of pluractionality [PDF] | Andrew Garrett |
| 2008 | Gabriela Caballero | Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara) phonology and morphology [PDF] | Andrew Garrett |
| 2008 | Cheryl Crawley | Cultures out of sync: Bilingual education on the Crow Indian Reservation | Stanley Brandes |
| 2008 | Christian DiCanio | The phonetics and phonology of San Martín Itunyoso Trique [PDF] | Keith Johnson |
| 2008 | Yuni Kim | Topics in the phonology and morphology of San Francisco del Mar Huave [PDF] | Sharon Inkelas |
| 2009 | Teresa McFarland | The phonology and morphology of Filomeno Mata Totonac [PDF] | Sharon Inkelas |
| 2010 | Erin Haynes | Phonetic and phonological acquisition in endangered languages learned by adults: A case study of Numu (Oregon Northern Paiute) [PDF] | Alice Gaby and Leanne Hinton |
| 2012 | Ramón Escamilla, Jr. | An updated typology of causative constructions: Form-function mappings in Hupa (California Athabaskan), Chungli Ao (Tibeto-Burman) and beyond [PDF] | Eve Sweetser |
| 2012 | Hannah Haynie | Studies in the history and geography of California languages [PDF] | Andrew Garrett |
| 2013 | Justin Spence | Language Change, Contact, and Koineization in Pacific Coast Athabaskan [PDF] | Andrew Garrett |
| 2014 | John Sylak-Glassman | Deriving Natural Classes: The Phonology and Typology of Post-Velar Consonants [PDF] | Sharon Inkelas |
| 2015 | Stephanie Farmer | Establishing Reference in Máíhɨ̃ki [PDF] | Lev Michael |
| 2017 | Clare Sandy | Prosodic Prominence in Karuk [PDF] | Andrew Garrett and Sharon Inkelas |
| 2017 | Kayla Begay | Wailaki Grammar [PDF] | Andrew Garrett and Justin Spence |
| 2017 | Katherine Sardinha | The Semantics of Kʷak̓ʷala Object Case [PDF] | Line Mikkelsen |
| 2018 | Tammy Stark | Caribbean Northern Arawak Person Marking and Alignment: a Comparative and Diachronic Analysis [PDF] | Lev Michael and Line Mikkelsen |
| 2019 | Amalia Skilton | Spatial and non-spatial deixis in Cushillococha Ticuna [PDF] | Lev Michael |
| 2019 | Kelsey Neely | The Linguistic Expression of Affective Stance in Yaminawa (Pano, Peru) [PDF] | Lev Michael |
| 2019 | Emily Clem | Agreement, case, and switch-reference in Amahuaca [PDF] | Amy Rose Deal |
| 2020 | Margaret Cychosz | Phonetic development in an agglutinating language [PDF] | Keith Johnson and Sharon Inkelas |
| 2020 | Zachary O'Hagan | Focus in Caquinte [PDF] | Lev Michael and Line Mikkelsen |
| 2021 | Julia Nee | Participatory Action Research in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec Language Revitalization [PDF] | Andrew Garrett and Leanne Hinton |
| 2021 | Myriam Lapierre | Towards a Theory of Subsegmental and Subfeatural Representations: The Phonology and Typology of Nasality [PDF] | Sharon Inkelas and Lev Michael |
| 2021 | Erik Hans Maier | A Treebank of the Karuk Language [PDF] | Line Mikkelsen |