ALUMNUS NOAH CONSTANT DEFENDS DISSERTATION AT AMHERST

Noah Constant completed the BA and the MA in Linguistics at UCSC, graduating in 2006. Noah went on to the doctoral program in Linguistics at UMass Amherst and we were delighted to learn that on Friday November 15th he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation there. Noah’s dissertation is on Contrastive Topic: Meanings and Realizations; the thesis was supervised by Angelika Kratzer and the other members of the committee are Elisabeth Selkirk, Seth Cable, Adrian Staub, and James Huang of Harvard. Many congratulations, Noah.