{"id":11787,"date":"2019-02-04T06:05:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T10:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=11787"},"modified":"2019-02-03T16:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T20:23:03","slug":"new-visiting-scholars-and-visiting-students-for-spring-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/02\/04\/new-visiting-scholars-and-visiting-students-for-spring-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"New Visiting Scholars and Visiting Students for Spring 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visiting Scholar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sfl.hust.edu.cn\/info\/1157\/7666.htm \">Chen Zhao<\/a> (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><br>I\u0092m currently teaching French and introductory courses of linguistics to undergraduates majored in French at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China). My research is grounded in formal syntax, with a special interest in labeling theory, Linearization, object shift, Syntax of Chinese and typological studies of different languages under the generative framework. My favorite part of the research is to be able to shed new lights on a linguistic phenomenon that has already been thoroughly studied by the scholars. I am currently\u00a0involved\u00a0in\u00a0an investigation of the symmetry in the syntax and different strategies that grammars resort to in order to label the symmetric structures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visiting Student<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/pals\/research\/linguistics\/linguistics-people\">Gregor Williamson<\/a> (University College London) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;m from London, UK. I did an undergraduate degree in English Language&nbsp;teaching. I did an MA in theoretical linguistics at UCL, where I am currently doing a PhD. The majority of my research is concerned with the syntax-semantics of the clausal spine (VP, TP, CP). I am particularly&nbsp;interested in various types of clausal embedding (non-finite clauses, adverbial clauses, attitude reports). My interests outside of linguistics include: playing the piano and climbing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting Scholar Chen Zhao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) I\u0092m currently teaching French and introductory courses of linguistics to undergraduates majored in French at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China). My research is grounded in formal syntax, with a special interest in labeling theory, Linearization, object shift, Syntax of Chinese and typological studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11794,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787\/revisions\/11794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}