Student grant and fellowship awards

Morphology group members have been racking up grants and fellowships this month!

Noah Diewald was awarded a Jacobs Research Fund grant and also a grant from the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research for his dissertation work on Wao Terero (Ecuador) classifiers systems. He also received a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship from the University of Wisconsin for study of Kichwa (Ecuador).

Connor Rouillier was awarded a Summer Graduate Research Award from the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at OSU. He will be mentored by Nikole Patson on his project Delimiting the Boundary between Object File Representation and Ensemble Representation of Plural Objects and Its Interaction with Morphological Form, part of his larger project on individuation as a morphosemantic properties of dialectal Arabic nouns and verbs.

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!