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:
Pietro Cerrone successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled Italian Clictic Left Dislocation and Ā-movement: an experimental investigation on Friday, April 28th.
Congratulations, Pietro!
Dr. Cerrone with his committee and audience after the successful defense:
Teruyuki Mizuno successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled Counterfactual expressions: an investigation into their structures and meanings on Thursday, February 16.
Congratulations, Teru!
Teru getting ready for the defense:
Dr. Mizuno with his committee:
Dr. Mizuno with his well-earned cake:
Hiroaki Saito successfully defended his dissertation Ways of Saying – Synchronically and Diachronically on February 13th.
Congratulations, Hiro!
Picture: Dr. Saito after his successful defense with his committee (Željko Bošković, Magda Kaufmann, Ian Roberts, Susi Wurmbrand) and some of the audience.
Muyi Yang successfully defended her dissertation Varieties of conditionals as definite descriptions on December 15th.
Congratulations, Muyi!
Muyi defending:
Dr. Yang with her committee:
Dr. Yang with her well-earned cake:
Christos Christopoulos successfully defended his dissertation Structures All the Way: Toward a deeper theory of affix order on July 11th.
Congratulations, Christos!
Christos defending:
Dr. Christopoulos with his committee:
Shuyan Wang successfully defended her dissertation: Scalar implicatures in child language: The role of processing capacities on April 15th.
Congratulations, Shuyan!
Audience at the defense:
Dr. Wang with her committee:
Yoshiki Fujiwara successfully defended his dissertation: Movement Approach to Ellipsis in Japanese on February 4th.
Congratulations, Yoshiki!
Audience at the defense:
Dr. Fujiwara with his committee and well earned cake:
Hiromune Oda successfully defended his dissertation titled “A more fine-grained distinction of NP/DP-languages and parameters in minimalism” on December 9th.
Congratulations, Hiro!
Hiro before his defense:
Dr. Oda with his well earned cake:
(photos: Yoshiki Fujiwara)
Emma Nguyen successfully defended her dissertation titled “The predictive power of lexical semantics on the acquisition of passive voice in young children” on July 27th.
Congratulations, Emma!
Dr. Nguyen with her committee:
