{"id":10166,"date":"2017-09-05T06:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T10:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2017-09-05T03:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T07:54:04","slug":"summer-defenses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2017\/09\/05\/summer-defenses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer defenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our warmest congratulations to this summer\u0092s shower of doctoral dissertators. From Aron Hirsch and Paul Marty&#8217;s semantics to Chris O&#8217;Brien, Isa Kerem Bay?rl? and Ruth Brillman&#8217;s syntax and to Sam Zukoff and Ben Storme&#8217;s phonology. Between all the fields, a wide variety of topics and excellent defenses, it was truly a fruitful dissertation season. The department was celebrating with an as wide a variety of food and beverages: champagne, a cookie cake, sublime French wine and rak?.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hirsch.mit.edu\/\">Aron Hirsch<\/a><\/strong>: <em>An inflexible semantics for cross-categorial operators<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bstorme.scripts.mit.edu\/site\/home.html\">Benjamin Storme<\/a><\/strong>: <em>Perceptual sources for closed-syllable vowel laxing and nonderived environment effects<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chris O&#8217;Brien<\/strong>: <em>Multiple dominance and interface operations<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/isakerem1\/home\">Isa Kerem Bay?rl?<\/a><\/strong>: <em>The universality of concord<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Marty<\/strong>: <em>Implicatures and the DP domain<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/ruth_b\/www\/\">Ruth, Brillman<\/a><\/strong>: <em>Subject\/non-subject extraction asymmetries: the view from tough-constructions<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/szukoff\/www\/\">Sam Zukoff<\/a><\/strong>: <em>Indo-European Reduplication: Synchrony, Diachrony, and Theory<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Aron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Aron.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10219\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Chris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Chris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10221\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Isa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Isa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10222\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Paul.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Paul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10223\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ruth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ruth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10224\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Sam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Sam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10225\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SamDonca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SamDonca.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10226\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ben.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ben.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10220\" \/><\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Aroncommittee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Aroncommittee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10227\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Isacommittee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Isacommittee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10228\" \/><\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Paulcommittee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Paulcommittee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10229\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ruthcommittee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Ruthcommittee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"245\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our warmest congratulations to this summer\u0092s shower of doctoral dissertators. From Aron Hirsch and Paul Marty&#8217;s semantics to Chris O&#8217;Brien, Isa Kerem Bay?rl? and Ruth Brillman&#8217;s syntax and to Sam Zukoff and Ben Storme&#8217;s phonology. Between all the fields, a wide variety of topics and excellent defenses, it was truly a fruitful dissertation season. 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