OTHER RECENT DEFENSES

Many congratulations to the following graduate students for the milestones they have recently passed!

Oliver Northrup successfully defended his second Qualifying Paper, “Working backward: Back-transliteration as a diagnostic for loanword adaptation processes”, on May 16th, 2012. His QP committee consisted of Junko (chair), Wendell, and Grant.

Setting a departmental record for QP-to-QE turnaround, Oliver then passed his Qualifying Examination on May 31st, with a work titled “Bias as uncertain authority”. His QE committee was Donka Farkas (Chair), Pranav, Adrian, and Marilyn Walker (Professor, Computer Science, UCSC).

Bern Samko successfully defended her second Qualifying Paper, “Participle preposing”, on May 23rd, 2012. Her QP committee was Jim (chair), Pranav, and Amy Rose.

Kendra Buchanan successfully defended her first Qualifying Paper, “Perspectives on Quantity-Sensitivity and Decomposed Scalar Constraints: A View from Hindi Stress”, on June 8th, 2012. Her QP committee was Junko (chair), Wendell, and Armin.