AN EXCEPTIONAL DEFENSE, IN SCOPE AND DYNAMISM

Our congratulations to Karl DeVries, who successfully defended his dissertation, Independence Friendly Dynamic Semantics: Integrating Exceptional Scope, Anaphora and their Interactions, on Thursday, September 29th. Despite the witching-hour timeslot, Karl kept the audience riveted with his exploration of the semantics of wide-scope, distributivity, and maximization. In the 77 hours since his talk finished, Karl has found the time to pack up and move down to Los Angeles, where he starts a job as an Analytical Linguist in Ads Human Evaluation and Experiment Design at Google today, alongside alums Brianna Kaufman and Oliver Northrup! Good luck, Karl. Check out the porridge at Gjustia! Only $7.50, plus tax!