Congratulations go to Carolyn Spadine, who defended her dissertation entitled The structure of attitude reports: representing context in grammar last week. The empirical core of her dissertation is a set of fascinating findings concerning Tigrinya, a Semitic language spoken in Eritrea. Tigrinya speakers can introduce a clause with an inflected element “?il-” that can translate the English verb say (or ‘believe’) and take a subject of its own but turns out not to be a verb at all, but a perspectival complementizer (a kind of subordinating conjunction) with a very different syntax and semantics. Clauses introduced by “?il-” also show the phenomenon called indexical shift, by which the meaning of pronouns such as I and you is not fixed as in English, but varies with context. Most excitingly, the syntax of indexical shift in Tigrinya can yield agreement mismatches, with a first or second person subject cooccuring with a third person verb but only under very particular circumstances. Carries dissertation shows how the details of these phenomena in Tigrinya support a novel theory of how pronouns come to be first or second person in the first place. Congratulations, Carrie!!