Category: defenses
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Yoon dissertation defended
Suwon Yoon was successful in defending her dissertation, ‘Not in the Mood: The Semantics and Syntax of Expletive Negation’. Congratulations, Suwon! Great job!
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Dissertation proposal defended
Congratulations to Yaron McNabb on the successful defense of his dissertation prospectus, “The syntax and semantics of intensifiers and other degree expressions”!
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Qualifying papers defended
Congratulations to the grad students who successfully defended a qualifying paper during Spring 2010! Ryan Bochnak: “My QP exceeds your QP in awesomeness: Exceed comparatives in Luganda” Juan Bueno-Holle: “Accessibility and Preferred Argument Structure in Isthmus Zapotec” Tim Grinsell: “Vagueness in the Grammatical Perfective” Stefanie Kuzmack: “The debonding of –ish: from affix to word” Martina…
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Two upcoming defenses
This week the department is anticipating two defenses based on syntax-semantics research. In the first, on Wednesday, fourth-year Yaron McNabb is scheduled to defend his dissertation prospectus on ‘The syntax and semantics of intensifiers and other degree expressions’ at 12:00 p.m. in the department lounge. Then on Thursday, June 10, Suwon Yoon will be defending her…
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Paz dissertation defense
Alejandro I. Paz (joint Anthro/Ling) will be defending his dissertation next Thursday, April 29 at 12:30 p.m. in Haskell 101. Alejandro’s dissertation is entitled “Discursive Transformation: The Emergence of Ethnolinguistic Identity Among Latin American Labor Migrants and Their Children In Israel” (abstract available in Haskell 119). Of course, attendance is open to faculty and students. Best…