WELCOME!

A special welcome to incoming graduate students Lauren McGarry, Tom Roberts, Kelsey Sasaki, and Jake Vincent!

Please also welcome the Department’s LRC visitors for 2015-16. Jun Yang, who is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, does research on phonology and the syntax-prosody interface. Andreas Walker, a graduate student from the University of Konstanz, is writing a dissertation on counterfactual donkey sentences. Three other LRC visitors will be on campus from time to time: Dan Hardt, who is Associate Professor of IT Management at the Copenhagen Business School, is co-PI with Pranav Anand and Jim McCloskey on their NSF project, The Implicit Content of Sluicing. Craig Martell is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School. Dick Oehrle is former Chief Linguist and Senior Manager at Ernst & Young LLP.