Defenses

Yuan Defense & U of Chicago jobs

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Xuetong Yuan successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled Conditions on Conditionals: Evaluativity, Discourse Sensitivity, and Conditionals without if on September 27th.

Since then, Xuetong has been busy moving to Chicago, where she will be a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago. At the University of Chicago she is also joining another recent UConn linguistics alum and classmate, Si Kai Lee, who recently started his position as a postdoctoral syntax instructor there.

Congratulations, Xuetong! And belated congratulations to Si Kai!

 

Xuetong during the defense with her advisor, Magda Kaufmann:

 

Dr. Yuan cutting her well earned cake:

 

 

Lewis Defense & Job

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Beccy Lewis successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled Cross-linguistic variation in the function of heterogeneous plural marking and its theoretical consequences on August 30th. Since then, Beccy has already been busy with starting her new job as visiting lecturer in linguistics at UMass, Amherst.

Congratulations, Beccy!

 

Beccy during the defense:

 

Dr. Lewis with her committee after the successful defense:

 

 

Gao Defense

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Kangzheng Gao successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled A constraint-based approach to syntactic parameter-setting on February 22nd.

Congratulations, Kangzheng!

 

Kangzheng during the defense:

 

Dr. Gao with his committee after the successful defense:

 

Dr. Gao’s well earned cake:

 

Noguchi Defense

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Yuya Noguchi successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled Asymmetries, Covert Wh-Movement, and Nominality in Japanese Wh-Questions on February 5th.

Congratulations, Yuya!

Yuya during the defense:

 

Dr. Noguchi with his committee after the successful defense:

 

Dr. Noguchi cutting his well earned cake:

 

Gu Defense

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Shengyun Gu successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled Bimanual coordination: The non-dominant hand in Shanghai Sign Language on Friday October 27th.

Congratulations, Shengyun!

Shengyun during the defense:

Dr. Gu with her committee after the successful defense:

 

Dr. Gu cutting her well earned cake:

Lee Defense

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Si Kai Lee successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled At the Edge of Contact, Insights from the Left Peripheries of Singlish on September 18th.

Congratulations, Si Kai!

Si Kai during the defense:

 

Dr. Lee with his committee after the successful defense:

 

Dr. Lee cutting his well earned cake:

 

Jovović Defense

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Ivana Jovović successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled Pronouns at the interface of syntax and discourse structure on Thursday June 22nd!.

Congratulations, Ivana!

Ivana during the defense:

Dr. Jovović with her committee after the successful defense:

Dr. Jovović cutting her well earned cake:

Park Defense

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Jayeon Park successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled Not exceptional, not reducible: An experimental investigation of three purported exceptions to island effects in English on Tuesday, June 20th.

Congratulations, Jayeon!

Dr. Park with her committee and the audience after her successful defense:

Koval Defense

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Pasha Koval successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled The syntax of relative clause extraposition: An experimental investigation of island and c-command effects on Thursday, June 15th.

Congratulations, Pasha!

Dr. Koval with the audience after his successful defense:

Dr. Koval with his committee: