{"id":11188,"date":"2018-06-04T06:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T10:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11188"},"modified":"2018-06-07T11:19:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:19:23","slug":"whos-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/06\/04\/whos-in-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s gonna be in charge?  Here&#8217;s who!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By tradition, the headship of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy rotates between the Linguistics and Philosophy sections.\u00a0 From July 1, the department head will be our Philosophy colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/philosophy\/byrne.html\">Alex Byrne<\/a>, who has served as section head of Philosophy for the past five years. \u00a0He succeeds linguist <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/pesetsk\/\">David Pesetsky<\/a>, who is concluding his five-year term as department head.\u00a0 The new section head for Linguistics will be <a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/fintel\/\">Kai von Fintel<\/a> \u0097 but <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/albright\/www\/\">Adam Albright <\/a>will serve as interim section Head during Kai&#8217;s well-earned sabbatical this Fall.\u00a0 Thank you all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By tradition, the headship of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy rotates between the Linguistics and Philosophy sections.\u00a0 From July 1, the department head will be our Philosophy colleague Alex Byrne, who has served as section head of Philosophy for the past five years. \u00a0He succeeds linguist David Pesetsky, who is concluding his five-year term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11188"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11201,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11188\/revisions\/11201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}