RUDIN DEFENDS DISSERTATION
On Friday, June 1st, Deniz Rudin successfully defended his dissertation, “Rising above commitment” before the department and an especially robust committee (Pranav Anand, chair; Adrian Brasoveanu; Donka Farkas; Cleo Condoravdi; and Dan Lassiter). Deniz’s thesis argues for a general pragmatic contribution of rising intonation in English, illustrating its application to rising declaratives and rising imperatives, the latter of which festooned his cake (provided by the firm of Foley, Kraus, Roberts, and Sasaki):
