{"id":11324,"date":"2018-09-10T06:12:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T10:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11324"},"modified":"2018-09-10T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:31:18","slug":"summer-defenses-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2018\/09\/10\/summer-defenses-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer defenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our happiest congratulations to this summer&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/aaravind\/www\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Athulya Aravind<\/a> - <em>Presuppositions in Context<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kbranan.scripts.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenyon Branan<\/a> - <em>Relationship Preservation<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tingchun (TC) Chen - M<em>ultiple Case Assignment: An Amis Case Study<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~maf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelle Fullwood<\/a> -<em> Biases in Segmenting Non-concatenative Morphology<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ishani Guha -\u00a0<em>Distributivity across domains: A study of the distributive numerals in Bangla<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sophie Moracchini - <em>Morphosemantics of degree constructions and the grammar of evaluativity<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Takashi Morita - <em>Unsupervised Learning of Lexical Subclasses from Phonotactics<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~rasin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ezer Rasin<\/a> - <em>Modular interactions in phonology<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Milena Sisovics - <em>Embedded Jussives as Instances of Control: The Case of Mongolian and Korean<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/yuanm\/www\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelle Yuan<\/a> - <em>Dimensions of Ergativity in Inuit: Theory and Microvariation<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/athulya-champagne-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11326\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/athulya-champagne-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kenyon-defense-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11328\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/kenyon-defense-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TC-defense.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11329\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/TC-defense.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fullwood_defence1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11331\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fullwood_defence1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ishani-defense.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-11359\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ishani-defense.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Sophie-Defense.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11332\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Sophie-Defense.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ezer-Defense.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11333\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ezer-Defense.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/milena-defense.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11334\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/milena-defense.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/michelle-defense.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11335\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/michelle-defense.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/michelle-cake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11336\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/michelle-cake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ezer-cake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11337\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ezer-cake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our happiest congratulations to this summer&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11324"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11361,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions\/11361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}