Eric Potsdam inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America

PhD alumnus Eric Potsdam, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Florida, was recently inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, along with seven of the field’s most eminent linguists. The LSA states that each fellow is inducted “for their distinguished contributions to the discipline.” 

Professor Potsdam received his PhD from the Department in 1996, with a thesis on imperatives, chaired by Professor Judith Aissen. Since then, he has made important contributions to many areas in linguistics and syntactic theory, including ellipsis, exceptives, and the grammar of Austronesian languages. Congratulations, Eric!