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:

Yuta Tatsumi successfully defended his dissertation titled “Linguistic realization of measuring and counting in the nominal domain: A cross-linguistic study of syntactic and semantic variations“ on January 29th.

Congratulations, Yuta!

Dr. Tatsumi with his committee:

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:

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:

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:

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:

Ksenia Bogomolets successfully defended her dissertation titled “Lexical Accent in Languages with Complex Morphology“ on July 20th.

Congratulations, Ksenia!

Dr. Bogomolets with her committee:

 

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: