Whamit!

The Weekly Newsletter of MIT Linguistics

A summer’s worth of dissertations!

Over the summer, six students defended their dissertations! In order of defense date, they are…

Patrick Grosz – On the Grammar of Optative Constructions
Omer Preminger – Agreement as a Fallible Operation
Tue Trinh – Edges and Linearization
Luka Crnic – Getting Even
Alya Asarina – Case in Uyghur and Beyond
Bronwyn Bjorkman – BE-ing Default: The Morphosyntax of Auxiliaries

Congratulations to all six for their splendid achievements!!