Sabine Laszakovits successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled On the fundamental difference between dependent-up and dependent-down cases, and on their manifestation in Turkic on June 17th.
Congratulations, Sabine!
Sabine defending “in front of” most of her committee:
Dr. Laszakovits with the committee and audience after the successful defense:
Linghui ‘Eva’ Gan successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled Information Structure of the Clause-Final Position in Hong Kong Sign Language on May 14th.
Congratulations, Eva!
Eva defending:
Dr. Gan with her well-earned cake:
Dr. Gan with her committee:
Akihiko Arano successfully defended his doctoral dissertation a while ago on April 30th. The dissertation was titled Expanding the scope of scrambling.
Congratulations, Aki!
While the traditional cutting of the defense cake was not possible due to the event being fully online, we hope Dr. Arano instead enjoyed a well-earned Japanese treat of his liking.
Yusuke Yagi successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled Dynamics, Assertability, and Presuppositions in Japanese and English disjunctions on February 28th.
Congratulations, Yusuke!
Yusuke during the defense:
Dr. Yagi cutting his well earned cake:
Dr. Yagi with his committee:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
