{"id":14851,"date":"2022-09-09T06:42:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T10:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=14851"},"modified":"2022-09-22T13:09:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:09:24","slug":"14851","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2022\/09\/09\/14851\/","title":{"rendered":"Staniszewski defends!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/frankstaniszewski\">Frank Staniszewski<\/a>, who successfully and excellently defended his dissertation on August 25, 2022, titled <em>Modality and Time in Logical Context<\/em>!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The dissertation develops a theory of neg-raising that unifies the phenomenon with existing theories of free choice and negative polarity items. The empirical focus is on &#8220;until&#8221;-phrases and on the neg-raising predicates &#8220;want&#8221;, &#8220;should&#8221;, and &#8220;be supposed to&#8221;. Predictions of the formal account are then examined in a language acquisition experiment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/56913B82-0D3D-4DFD-8575-A89D792C4EBA-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14852\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/56913B82-0D3D-4DFD-8575-A89D792C4EBA-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Frank Staniszewski, who successfully and excellently defended his dissertation on August 25, 2022, titled Modality and Time in Logical Context!\u00a0 The dissertation develops a theory of neg-raising that unifies the phenomenon with existing theories of free choice and negative polarity items. The empirical focus is on &#8220;until&#8221;-phrases and on the neg-raising predicates &#8220;want&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14851"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14918,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851\/revisions\/14918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}