Cati Fortin receives Distinguished Dissertation Award
Cati Fortin was named as a 2008 recipient of the highly competitive Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Cati’s dissertation, “Indonesian sluicing and verb phrase ellipsis: Description and explanation in a minimalist framework” investigates two elliptical phenomena, sluicing and verb phrase ellipsis (VPE), in Indonesian. The dissertation is equally concerned with description and formal analysis, and provides the first in-depth description and generative analysis of both Indonesian sluicing and VPE.
Cati is currently a visiting assistant professor in syntax at Carleton College.
Congratulations. Cati!!