# Students **:: As Adviser and Dissertation Committee Chair:** [**Ankana Saha**](https://ankana-saha.github.io) Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Ph.D. thesis: *Demonstratives and the semantics-pragmatics interface,* 2025, co-chair with K. Davidson. [**Ian Kirby**](https://iankirby.github.io) Applied AI Language Analyst Ph.D. thesis: *Wide meanings across narrow contexts: Sakha particles and the grammar of alternatives,* 2024, co-chair with J. Bobaljik. [**Yuyin He**](https://yuyinhe.wordpress.com/) Lecturer, Department of College English Teaching, Beiihang University (BUAA) Ph.D. thesis:*Time in Mandarin: The Fingerprints of Tense and Finiteness*, 2020 [**Aurore Gonzales**](https://auroregonzalez.github.io/) Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Milan Bicocca Ph.D. Thesis: *Polar Questions and Interrogative Particles: A crosslinguistic investigation*, 2020 [**Dorothy Ahn**](https://www.dorothyahn.com/) Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University, NJ Ph.D. thesis: *THAT thesis: A competition-based mechanism for anaphoric expressions*, Harvard University, 2019 [**Teodora Mihoc**](https://tmihoc.github.io/) Technical Writer, Canonical Juju Team Ph.D. thesis: *Decomposing Logic: Modified numerals, porlarity and exhaustification*, Harvard University, 2019 [**Yimei Xiang**](https://yimeixiang.blog/) Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University, NJ Ph.D. thesis: *Interpreting Questions with Non-Exhaustive Answers*, Harvard University, 2017. [**Maria del Mar Bassa Vanrell**](https://www.wellesley.edu/cogsci/faculty/mar_bassa_vanrell) Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Ph.D. thesis: *Scope, Scalarity, and Polarity in Aspectual Marking: The case of English ‘until’ and Spanish ‘hasta’*, University of Texas, Austin, 2017. Co-chair with John Beavers. [**Greg Scontras**](https://www.langsci.uci.edu/scontras/) Associate Professor, Department of Language Sciences, University of California Irvine Ph.D. thesis: *The Semantics of Measurement*, Harvard University, 2014. [**Andreea Nicolae**](https://sites.google.com/site/andreeanicolae/) Researcher, Leibniz-Center of General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin Ph.D. thesis: *Any questions? Polarity as a window into the semantics of questions*, Harvard University, 2013. [**Li Julie Jiang**](https://lijuliejiang.com/) Associate Professor of Chinese Linguistics, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Ph.D. thesis: *Nominal arguments and language variation,* Harvard University, 2013*.* Co-chair with C.-T. James Huang [**Jacopo Romoli**](http://www.jacoporomoli.com/) Professor, Institute of Language and Information, University of Dusseldorf Ph.D. thesis: *Soft but strong. Neg-raising, soft presuppositions and exhaustification*, Harvard University, 2012. [**Hazel Pearson**](https://sites.google.com/site/hazelpearsonling/) Senior Lecturer in Formal Semantics, Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London Ph.D. thesis: *The sense of self: Topics on the semantics of De Se expressions,* Harvard University, 2012. [**Hsiu-chen Daphne Liao**](https://scholar.nycu.edu.tw/en/persons/hsiu-chen-liao) Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Ph.D. thesis: *Alternatives and exhaustification: Non-interrogative uses of Chinese wh-words*, Harvard University, 2011. [**Clemens Mayr**](http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/clemens%20steiner-mayr/569384.html) Professor, English Department, Linguistics Section, University of Göttingen Ph.D. thesis: *The role of alternatives and strength in grammar*, Harvard University, 2010. [**Adam Z. Wyner**](https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/a.z.wyner/) Associate Professor in Computer Science, Swansea University, UK Ph.D. thesis: *Boolean event lattices and thematic roles in the syntax and semantics of adverbial modification*, Cornell University, 1994 [**William McClure**](https://www2.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/DAH/CMAL/pages/william-mcclure.aspx) Professor of Japanese at Queens College and Linguistics at CUNY Graduate Center Dean of Faculty for the Division of Arts and Humanities, Queens College Ph.D. thesis: *Syntactic projection of the semantics of aspect*, Cornell University, 1992. [**Veneeta Dayal**](https://ling.yale.edu/people/veneeta-dayal) Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Yale University Ph.D. thesis: *Wh dependencies in Hindi and the theory of grammar*, Cornell University, 1991. ***:: As Dissertation Committee Member:*** - **Beom-mo Kang** (Brown University) - **Chu-ren Huang** (Cornell University) - **Shyam Kapur** (Computer Science, Cornell University) - **Keiko Yoshida** (Cornell University) - **Federica Busa** (Brandeis University) - **Luca Dini** (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) - **Francesca Panzeri** (University of Milan) - **Maria Aloni** (University of Amsterdam) - **Marjana Marelji** (University of Utrecht) - **Takeo Kurafuji** (Rutgers University) - **Valentine Hacquard** (MIT) - **Sophia Malamud** (University of Pennsylvania) - **Marta Abrusan** (MIT) - **Jun-ri Shimada** (MIT) - **Anamaria Falaus** (University of Nantes) - **Luka Crnic** (MIT) - **Natalia Ivlieva** (MIT) - **Suzi Lima** (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) - **Nadine Bade** (University of Tübingen) - **Mingming Liu** (Rutgers University) - **Milica Denič** (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) - **Yagmur Sag** (Rutgers University) - **Halima Husic** (Ruhr's University) - **Gunnar Lund** (Harvard) - **Keny Chatain** (MIT) - **Joshua Martin** (Harvard) - **Ethan Wilcox** (Harvard) - **Hayley Ross** (Harvard)