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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…

Congratulations to Angelina Bultaovic, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation entitled ” MODALITY, FUTURITY AND TEMPORAL DEPENDENCY: THE SEMANTICS OF THE SERBIAN PERFECTIVE NONPAST AND FUTURE 2 “! in both The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures the Department of Linguistics for a dual Ph.D. Chestitamo na uspehu! Well done, Gina!

Congratulations to Nikki Adams, who has been awarded a Provost’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship for next year, and to Erin Debenport, who has been awarded an AAUW Dissertation Fellowship! Congratulations also to the following students who have received Provost’s Summer Fellowships: Jackie Bunting, James Kirby, Yaron McNabb, Chris Straughn, and Suwon Yoon.

Congratulations go to the following eight graduating majors in linguistics, who have all finished their BA theses (the most ever), and to their advisors (in parentheses): Eric Bjerstedt, “The dominance of the unmarked in prosodic reduplication.” (Jason Riggle) Christine Boylan, “Causal inference processing in narratives: A fMRI study and review of methodology.” (Amy Dahlstrom) Elise…

Many of our graduating seniors will embark on new and exciting adventures soon: Christine Boylan will be working as lab manager of Alec Marantz & Liina Pylkkänen’s lab at NYU. John Sylak is going to Berkeley for his PhD in Linguistics. Eric Prendergast received a Fulbright to study in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. If you’re…