Jeff Parker earns Ph.D.

Jeff Parker dissertation defense

Jeff Parker (in the tie) with part of his dissertation committee: Brian Joseph, Andrea Sims, and Greg Stump

On May 26, Jeff Parker successfully defended his dissertation, Inflectional complexity and cognitive processing: An experimental and corpus-based investigation of Russian nouns. The dissertation committee consisted of OSU faculty members Andrea Sims (Chair), Brian Joseph, and Mark Pitt, and University of Kentucky faculty member Greg Stump.

Congratulations, Dr. Parker!

Jeff will be officially hooded in August 2016 and will start a faculty position at Brigham Young University in the fall. We wish him good luck and success in all of his future endeavors!

Read the abstract of Jeff’s dissertation

Lauren Ressue earns Ph.D.

Andrea Sims and Lauren Ressue

Andrea Sims and Lauren Ressue

The Slavic Linguistics Lab has produced its first Ph.D.! Lauren Ressue  defended her dissertation, Reciprocity in Russian: an investigation of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic interfaces in April. Andrea Sims (Slavic) and Judith Tonhauser (Linguistics) co-chaired the dissertation committee. Lauren was officially hooded at Ohio State’s spring graduation ceremony.

Abstract of Lauren’s dissertation

Congratulations, Dr. Ressue!