New PhD Update: Catherine Fortin
This fall, Catherine Fortin (dissertation: Indonesian Sluicing and Verb Phrase Ellipsis: Description and Explanation in a Minimalist Framework, defended summer 2007) began a two-year appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Carleton College Linguistics Program. She will be teaching several different courses in syntax and related subfields of linguistics (semantics, morphology, intro, acquisition, and ‘field methods’). This term she is teaching Introduction to the Theory of Syntax and First Language Acquisition. With only one other full-time faculty member in Linguistics, Catherine constitutes about half of the program!
Catherine will also be presenting a paper at the upcoming Western Conference of Linguistics (WECOL) at UCSD in November, on some of her dissertation research, Verb Phrase Ellipsis in Indonesian.