Robin Jenkins successfully defended his dissertation on Comparative explorations in the middle-field.
Congratulations, Robin!
Defenses
Lee Defense
Chui Yi (Margaret) Lee successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled How Do Children Acquire Definiteness? An Acquisitional Study of English- and Cantonese-acquiring Children on February 6th.
Congratulations, Maggie!
Maggie defending:
Dr. Lee cutting the first slice of her well-earned cake:
Daniel Defense
Penelope Daniel successfully defended her doctoral dissertation titled Building a DAM: Parameters of differential argument marking on July 7th.
Penelope will be starting her job as a postdoctoral associate in syntax at the University of Maryland in the fall.
Congratulations, Penelope!
Penelope defending:
Dr. Daniel preparing for the toast after the successful defense:
Dr. Daniel celebrating with her committee:
The online audience at the defense:
Laszakovits Defense
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:
Gan 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:
Arano Defense
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.
Yagi Defense
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:
Yuan Defense & U of Chicago jobs
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
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
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:
