The University of Chicago’s Ph.D. in Linguistics program emphasizes empirical depth and theoretical innovation. These dissertation topics span generative grammar, phonological theory, language documentation, and computational modeling—preparing students to contribute to both descriptive and formal linguistics.
Syntactic Variation in World Englishes: A Comparative Analysis
Phonological Processes in Understudied Indigenous Languages
Formal Semantics of Modality in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Acoustic Analysis of Tonal Systems in Southeast Asian Languages
Computational Modeling of First Language Acquisition
Language Contact and Structural Borrowing in Creole Genesis
Argument Structure Alternations and Verb Classifications
Diachronic Phonology and the Evolution of Romance Languages
The Role of Prosody in Focus and Information Structure
Lexical Semantics and Polysemy in Natural Language Processing
Morphosyntactic Alignment in Ergative-Absolutive Languages
Cognitive Constraints on Code-Switching in Bilingual Speech
Fieldwork-Based Documentation of Endangered Languages
Sociophonetic Variation in Urban Dialects of American English
Pragmatic Enrichment and Scalar Implicature in Contextual Use
Minimalist Syntax and the Derivation of Interrogative Clauses
Discourse Particles and Sentence-Final Mood Markers in East Asian Languages
Neurocognitive Processing of Agreement Violations in Real-Time Parsing
Evidentiality Systems in Indigenous South American Languages
Phonotactic Probability and Nonce Word Processing in Children
Typological Constraints on Word Order Variation
Language Ideologies and Identity in Multilingual Communities
Corpus-Based Approaches to Syntactic Change Over Time
Phonological Opacity and Rule Ordering in Optimality Theory
Reconstructing Proto-Languages Using Bayesian Phylogenetics
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