{"id":116,"date":"2008-09-01T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2008\/09\/01\/welcome-visitors\/"},"modified":"2008-08-31T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T23:09:11","slug":"welcome-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2008\/09\/01\/welcome-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, visitors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the fall semester brings with it a bumper crop of new visitors.  We offer a hearty welcome to those who have already arrived:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visiting Scholars<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hyunsook Kang<\/strong> (Professor, Hanyang University Division of English Language &amp; Culture)<br clear='none'\/>\n<blockquote><p>Research interests: interface of phonology and phonetics<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revithiadou.gr\/\"><strong>Anthi Revithiadou<\/strong><\/a> (Assistant Professor of Comparative Linguistics, University of Aegean)<br clear='none'\/>\n<blockquote><p>Primary research interests: metrical theory, prosodic phonology and areas of the morphosyntax-phonology<br clear='none'\/>\n\t\tinterface. She works on Standard Greek and its dialects with emphasis on those<br clear='none'\/>\n\t\tthat were in contact with Turkish (e.g. Pontic, Cappadocian, Rhodian Muslim<br clear='none'\/>\n\t\tGreek, etc.). She currently explores the accentual differences among various<br clear='none'\/>\n\t\tAncient Greek dialects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hiroyuki Tanaka<\/strong> (Associate Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University)<br clear='none'\/>\n<blockquote><p>Research interests: the syntax of complementizers and its interaction with semantics and morphology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chi-lin Wang<\/strong> (Associate Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology)<br clear='none'\/>\n<blockquote><p>Research interests:  interlanguage phonology with a focus on phonotactics<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Visiting Students<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gaetano Fiorin<\/strong> (University of Verona)<br clear='none'\/>\n<blockquote><p>Research interests: the degree of semantic competence of dyslexic children<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marina (Marlies) Kluck<\/strong> (University of Groningen)<br clear='none'\/>\n<blockquote><p>My research concerns the syntax and semantics of sentence amalgamation. I analyse these as paratactic construals involving multidominance (&#8216;sharing&#8217;).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gary Thoms<\/strong> (Strathclyde University)<br clear='none'\/>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m in second year of a PhD on literary language, specifically the unusual<br clear='none'\/>\n\t\tlanguage of 20th century avant garde literature. The broader questions of my<br clear='none'\/>\n\t\tproject are largely metatheoretical, and the specific topics which substantiate<br clear='none'\/>\n\t\tthis inquiry include the semantic-pragmatic distinction, optional movement and<br clear='none'\/>\n\t\tderivational morphology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stefano Versace<\/strong> (Universita degli Studi di Milano)<br clear='none'\/>\n<blockquote><p>Currently working on a dissertation project investigating the generativist approach to meter and its possible application in Italian contemporary poetry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More visitors will be arriving in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for further announcements!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The start of the fall semester brings with it a bumper crop of new visitors. 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