Gabriel Martínez Vera successfully defended his dissertation titled “On the Semantics of Evidentials in Southern Aymara“ on October 19th.
Congratulations, Gabriel!
Dr. Martínez Vera with his committee:
Defenses
Petrosino Defense
Roberto Petrosino successfully defended his dissertation titled “More than islands of regularity: An investigation of the sensitivity of morphological decomposition to higher-level linguistic properties” on September 4th.
Congratulations, Roberto!
Dr. Petrosino with his committee:
Lacerda Defense
Renato Lacerda successfully defended his dissertation titled “Middle-field Syntax and Information Structure in Brazilian Portuguese“ on August 10th.
Congratulations, Renato!
Dr. Lacerda with his committee:
Bertolino Defense
Karina Bertolino successfully defended her dissertation titled “An Experimental Study on the Acquisition of Impersonals in Brazilian Portuguese“ on August 5th.
Congratulations, Karina!
Dr. Bertolino with her committee:
Bogomolets Defense
Ksenia Bogomolets successfully defended her dissertation titled “Lexical Accent in Languages with Complex Morphology“ on July 20th.
Congratulations, Ksenia!
Dr. Bogomolets with her committee:
Fenger Defense
Paula Fenger successfully defended her dissertation titled “Words within Words: The Internal Syntax of Verbs“ on June 29th.
Congratulations, Paula!
Dr. Fenger with her committee:
Thornton Defense
Abigail Thornton successfully defended her dissertation titled “Morphophonological & Morphosyntactic Domains” on May 14th in our first doctoral defense since moving online.
Congratulations, Abbie!
Dr. Thornton with her committee:
Dadan Defense and Job
Marcin Dadan successfully defended his dissertation “Head Labeling Preference and Language Change” on Friday September 6. He will now take up a position as a visiting lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Florida. Congratulations, Marcin!
