Tommy Grano and Eun Hae Park will be presenting at the Second International Conference on East Asian Linguistics, to be held in Vancouver in November:

• Thomas Grano: Chang-Chang, Wang-Wang, and Domain Restriction in Mandarin Quantificational Adverbs
• Eun-Hae Park: An Expressive Analysis of –na in Korean and its Free Choice Component

Eun-Hae, Osamu Sawada and Suwon Yoon will also present at the  18th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, to be held at CUNY around the same time:

• Eun-Hae Park: Low-level versus indiscriminate reading in Korean free choice amwu-na (poster)
• Osamu Sawada: Comparison, indeterminateness, and the semantics-pragmatics interface (poster)
• Suwon Yoon: Expletive negation in Japanese and Korean

Osamu will also be presenting “Comparison with indeterminateness: a multidimensional approach” at NELS 39 in November!

Congratulations to James Kirby, who has been awarded a three-year Hanna Holborn Gray Advanced Fellowship! This fellowship is given annually to one third-year student in the Humanities division and one in the humanistic Social Sciences. We are very proud of James for receiving this honor.

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.

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!