Our happiest congratulations to this summer’s impressive group of doctoral dissertators! The department celebrated the excellent defenses with champagne and some doctoral level baking, including cat-themed cake decorations and vegan Oreo-cheesecake.
- Athulya Aravind – Presuppositions in Context
- Kenyon Branan – Relationship Preservation
- Tingchun (TC) Chen – Multiple Case Assignment: An Amis Case Study
- Michelle Fullwood – Biases in Segmenting Non-concatenative Morphology
- Ishani Guha – Distributivity across domains: A study of the distributive numerals in Bangla
- Sophie Moracchini – Morphosemantics of degree constructions and the grammar of evaluativity
- Takashi Morita – Unsupervised Learning of Lexical Subclasses from Phonotactics
- Ezer Rasin – Modular interactions in phonology
- Milena Sisovics – Embedded Jussives as Instances of Control: The Case of Mongolian and Korean
- Michelle Yuan – Dimensions of Ergativity in Inuit: Theory and Microvariation
