{"id":4347,"date":"2012-09-04T04:59:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T08:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=4347"},"modified":"2012-09-04T01:48:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T05:48:22","slug":"visiting-members-for-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2012\/09\/04\/visiting-members-for-the-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Members for the Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We extend our warmest welcome to the visiting scholars and students for this term:<\/p>\n<p><b>Visiting Scholars<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/aix1.uottawa.ca\/~aarregui\/ana_arregui.html\">Ana Arregui<\/a><\/b> Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa<br clear='none'\/>\nResearch in semantics and psycholinguistics.<\/p>\n<li><b>Marika Butskhrikidze<\/b> Associate Professor, College FAMA<br clear='none'\/>\nResearch in phonology and morphology.<\/p>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/magia\/www\/Site\/about.html\">Maria Giavazzi<\/a><\/b> Postdoc, \u00c9quipe de Neuropsychologie Interventionnelle at the Department of Cognitive Studies of ENS (Paris); MIT Linguistics PhD (2010)<br clear='none'\/>\nResearch in phonology, phonetics, speech perception and in the cognitive neuroscience of language.<\/p>\n<li><b>Xinzhong Liu<\/b> Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chinese Literature and Language, Jinan University<br clear='none'\/>\nHas an expertise in phonetics of Chinese dialects. His current research is to transcribe and describe the different sounds in Chinese dialects especially in Southern China.<\/p>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/taminastephenson\/\">Tamina Stephenson<\/a><\/b> Lecturer in Semantics, UMass Amherst; MIT Linguistics PhD (2007)<br clear='none'\/>\nResearch in semantics and pragmatics.<\/p>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/toki.nagomix.net\/e\/\">Hisao Tokizaki<\/a><\/b> Professor, Sapporo University<br clear='none'\/>\nResearch in syntax, phonology, morphology, and their interfaces.<\/p>\n<li><b>Asako Uchibori<\/b> Professor, Nihon University<br clear='none'\/>\nResearch in syntax (Japanese, Old Japanese, Japanese Sign Language) and language and the brain (first and second language processing experiments using fNIRS and fMRI).\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Visiting Students<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Dominique Blok<\/b> Graduate Student at University of Utrecht <br clear='none'\/>\nResearch description: Will try to create a formal account of Dutch and Flemish conditionals with modal verbs in the antecedent  (\u0091may\u0092 and \u0091must\u0092 respectively) that also appear to require a modal verb in the consequent. Will also compare these to similar constructions in English, German, and French.<\/p>\n<li><b>Ivano Ciardelli<\/b> PhD student at the Universit\u00e9 de Bordeaux<br clear='none'\/>\nHis research interests lie in between logic and language.<\/p>\n<li><b>Ana L\u00facia Pessotto dos Santos<\/b> PhD student at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) <br clear='none'\/>\nHer research focuses on the semantics of the imperfect and the interaction between modality, tense and aspect, including the pragmatic consequences its contribution brings to the meaning of modals and other verbs in PB.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We extend our warmest welcome to the visiting scholars and students for this term: Visiting Scholars Ana Arregui Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa Research in semantics and psycholinguistics. Marika Butskhrikidze Associate Professor, College FAMA Research in phonology and morphology. Maria Giavazzi Postdoc, \u00c9quipe de Neuropsychologie Interventionnelle at the Department of Cognitive Studies of ENS (Paris); [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4347"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4347\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}