So here's how it is.
I finished a dissertation entitled "Scene-Salience-Driven Effects in Discourse Processing" in 2012, in the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. I was advised by Jean-Pierre Koenig.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "Lexical Underspecification and the Syntax/Semantics Interface" in 1994, in University of California at Berkeley, advised by George Lakoff.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "On the Nature of Syntactic Irregularity" in 1966, in Indiana University, advised by Noam Chomsky.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "Transformational Analysis" in 1955, in the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Zellig Harris.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "A Grammar of the Phoenician Language" in 1934, from the same university, advised by James A. Montgomery.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "Samaritans, the earliest Jewish sect: Their history, theology, and literature" in 1907, from the same university, advised by Hermann Hilprecht.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "Freibrief Nebukadnezar's I. Koenigs von Babylonien, c. 1130 v. Chr." in 1883, in the University of Leipzig, advised by Friedrich Delitzsch.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "Studien ueber indogermanisch-semitische Wurzelverwandtschaft" in 1873, from the same university, advised by Eberhard Schrader.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "De linguae Aethiopicae cum cognatis linguis comparatae indole universa" in 1860, in the University of Goettingen, advised by Heinrich Ewald.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "Die Komposition der Genesis kritisch untersucht" in 1823, from the same university, advised by Johann Gottfried Eichhorn.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "Geschichte des Ostindischen Handels vor Mohammed" in 1774, from the same university, advised by Johann David Michaelis.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "Dissertatio inauguralis, de Punctorum Hebraicorum Antiquitate" in 1760, in the University of Halle, advised by Siegmund J. Baumgarten.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "Disputatio theologica de efficacia S. Scripturae naturali et supernaturali" in 1742, from the same university, advised by Christian Wolff.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "Philosophia practica universalis, methodo mathematica conscripta" in 1703, in the University of Leipzig, advised by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
He on the other hand finished a dissertation entitled "Specimen Quaestionum Philosophicarum ex Jure collectarum" in 1664, from the same university.
I don't know who Leibniz's adviser was.
Some things to notice: I find it interesting how the language used in academia evolved. People used to write dissertations in Latin, then somehow it shifted to German, and then only in the early 1900s did English become the language of the academia. It is also interesting that my academic lineage includes mathematicians, philosophers, Assyriologists, as well as linguists.
So there, that was a nerdy post, but it was rather interesting in my opinion.
