There are 8 students in the incoming class:
\nSamer Al Khatib<\/B>, who goes by ‘Sam’, grew up in Palestine, Jordan, and Vancouver. He did his undergrad in computer science at UBC, and has just finished an MA in linguistics at Simon Fraser University. He’s interested in semantics and pragmatics (and the relationship between the two), as well as theoretical syntax, syntactic typology, historical linguistics, and Semitic languages.
\nYoung Ah Do<\/B> is from Korea, and has a B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University. Young Ah is interested in phonology.
\nNatasha Ivlieva<\/B> is from Moscow, where she studied in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Moscow State University. She is mostly interested in syntax and the syntax-semantics interface.
\nMarie-Christine Meyer<\/B> is from Germany. She studied philosophy and linguistics at the University of Tuebingen, the University of Potsdam, and Humboldt University Berlin, where she recently completed an M.A. Although she’s interested in every area of linguistics, her main has been and most likely will be semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language.
\nLiudmila Nikolaeva<\/B>, who goes by ‘Liuda’, graduated from the Linguistics Department of the Russian State University for the Humanities a year ago, and has been a grad student there for the last year. Her main interests are syntax, semantics, and fieldwork.
\nRafael Nonato<\/B> reports that tendonitis makes him succinct.
\nSasha Podobryaev<\/B> is from Moscow, where he studied linguistics at Moscow State University. His primary area of interest is syntax.
\nIgor Yanovich<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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