{"id":6220,"date":"2014-08-26T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=6220"},"modified":"2014-08-26T12:04:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T16:04:33","slug":"donca-steriade-named-lsa-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2014\/08\/26\/donca-steriade-named-lsa-fellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Donca Steriade named LSA Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(We do think this merits a special late-summer issue of <em>Whamit!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>We are overjoyed to announce that our colleague <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/steriade\/\">Donca Steriade<\/a><\/strong> has been named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. Congratulations, Donca!!!<\/p>\n<p>The just-announced class of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguisticsociety.org\/news\/2014\/08\/25\/announcing-lsa-fellows-class-2015\">2015 LSA Fellows<\/a><\/strong> includes two other MIT PhD alums, in addition to Donca (PhD 1982): <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.fas.harvard.edu\/~ctjhuang\/\">C.-T. James Huang<\/a><\/strong> of Harvard (MIT PhD 1982) (Donca&#8217;s classmate, in fact) and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~wasow\/\">Thomas Wasow<\/a><\/strong> of Stanford (MIT PhD 1972). Of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguisticsociety.org\/content\/lsa-fellows-year-induction\">110 LSA Fellows<\/a> named since the honor was initiated in 2006, 30 - slightly more than a quarter - are MIT PhDs. \u00a0Donca is the fifth member of the MIT faculty to be named an LSA Fellow, joining her colleagues <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/heim\/\">Irene Heim<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/pesetsky\/\">David Pesetsky<\/a> and Institute Professors emeritus <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/halle\/\">Morris Halle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/chomsky\/\">Noam Chomsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Congratulations to Donca, Jim and Tom! Congratulations as well to the other newly named 2015 Fellows: John Baugh, Lyle Campbell, Andries Coetzee, Pat Keating, Donna Jo Napoli, Robin Queen, and Bernard Spolsky<\/p>\n<p><strong>A few links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>a 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/newsoffice.mit.edu\/2010\/emeritus-halle-0608\">news article about Donca Steriade and Morris Halle<br clear='none'\/>\n<\/a>Donca&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/steriade\/\">web page<br clear='none'\/>\n<\/a>the full list of 2015 Fellows: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguisticsociety.org\/news\/2014\/08\/25\/announcing-lsa-fellows-class-2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.linguisticsociety.org\/news\/2014\/08\/25\/announcing-lsa-fellows-class-2015<\/a><br clear='none'\/>\n<\/em>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(We do think this merits a special late-summer issue of Whamit!) We are overjoyed to announce that our colleague Donca Steriade has been named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. Congratulations, Donca!!! The just-announced class of 2015 LSA Fellows includes two other MIT PhD alums, in addition to Donca (PhD 1982): C.-T. James [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6220","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\/6220","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6220"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6261,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions\/6261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}