Heidi Buetow's defense on Friday at 3PM

The Final Oral Examination for the PhD for Heidi Buetow is scheduled for 3:00pm on Friday, December 13, 2013 in Bartlett 374. The title of Heidi's dissertation is "Disagreement and the Semantics of Predicates of Personal Taste".  The Chair of her Dissertation Committee is Phillip Bricker.

A copy of the dissertation is available in the Main Office.

All members of the UMass philosophical community are invited to attend the Oral Exam.

(WHISC has been informed that linguists are members of the philosophical community.)

Noah gets the Fish

Congratulations to Noah Constant, who successfully defended his dissertation,  “Contrastive Topic: Meanings and Realizations” on Friday.

Suzi Lima is defended

Suzi Lima defended her dissertation on Monday, August 26 with flying colors. Her dissertation, "Counting and Measuring in Two Tupi Languages," passed the muster of this outsized committee: Seth Cable, Gennaro Chiercia, Chuck Clifton and co-chairs Angelika Kratzer and Lyn Frazier. 

Meg Grant defends

Meg Grant defended her dissertation "The Parsing and Interpretation of Comparatives: More than Meets the Eye" last Monday, August 27th. Her defense was more than successful.

Congratulations Meg!

Kathryn Pruitt's defense on Friday

Kathryn Pruitt will defend her dissertation on Friday, May 25, at 1:00PM in Machmer E-37. Her dissertation is entitled: Stress in Harmonic Serialism.

Jesse Harris defends dissertation

Jesse Harris will defend his dissertation, "Processing Commitments" at 1PM in Dickinson 212 on Monday, November 28. All are welcome.

Congratulations Jesse!

Martin Walkow defends dissertation

Martin Walkow will defend his dissertation "Goals, Big and Small" on Friday the 13th (of May). For the location and time, look for the adverts around the department.