Category: students
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Summer conference activities
In Taipei later this month, Tommy Grano will be presenting “Explicit comparison to an implicit standard in Mandarin Chinese,” and Chris Kennedy will present “The composition of incremental change,” both at the 12th International Symposium on Chinese Languages and Linguistics. Morgan Sonderegger and Alan Yu will present “A rational account of perceptual compensation for coarticulation” at the…
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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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Last LCC workshop of the year
The Workshop on Language, Cognition and Computation (along with our other graduate workshops, Language Variation and Change and Semantics and Philosophy of Language) is wrapping up another academic year. Please join us this Friday at a special time for the final LCC talk of the year, presented by the U. of C.’s James Kirby. He will be…
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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…