Suwon Yoon was successful in defending her dissertation, ‘Not in the Mood: The Semantics and Syntax of Expletive Negation’. Congratulations, Suwon! Great job!
Kirby in JASA
James Kirby‘s paper “Dialect experience in Vietnamese tone perception” has been published online in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Vol. 127, Issue 6). Congratulations, James!
http://link.aip.org/link/?JAS/127/3749Jame
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 32nd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Portland, Oregon, in August.
Peter Klecha will present his work on “Optional and Obligatory Modal Subordination” at Sinn und Bedeutung 15 at the Department of German Studies, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany in September.
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”!
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 Martinovic: “Regression models of tone in Neostokavian”
"Vagueness in the Grammatical Perfective"