As the Spring quarter comes to a close, we celebrate the many successfully defended QPs. Here’s the honor roll:

First QP

• Max Bane: Modeling the Typology of Quantity-Insensitive Stress Systems.
• Tommy Grano: At the intersection of form, meaning and use: Being assertive in Mandarin Chinese.
• Arum Kang: On the plurality of the Extrinsic Plural Marker -TUL in Korean.
• Yaron McNabb: Hebrew Coordinated Relative Clauses as a Window into the Nature of Resumption and Movement.
• Nassira Nicola: Dire N’IMPORTE-Q”: Identifying a free choice item in Quebec Sign Language.

Second QP

• Catherine Chatzopoulos: Negative Concord in Attic Greek.
• James Kirby: Comparative-induced event measure relations in English and Vietnamese.
• Osamu Sawada: The Historical Syntax of Japanese Comparatives.
• Eleni Staraki: Turkish Loanwords in Modern Greek: A Psycholinguistic Approach.
• Chris Straughn: The Development and Use of the Uzbek Complementizer.

Congratulations also to Jackie Bunting for successfully defending her dissertation proposal titled From English to Sranan: An Assessment of Structural Similarities and Differences. Good job, Jackie.