Marcin Morzycki
Students
Doctoral students whose committees I’ve chaired (two are named Ai, coincidentally):
- Adam Gobeski. Defended in 2019. Dissertation: Factor Phrases: the Semantics of Multiplicative Modification of Events, Degrees, and Nominals, and the Grammar of Arithmetic.
- Cara Feldscher. Defended in 2019. Dissertation: Natural Language Addition Via Degrees, Events, and Focus.
- Ai Taniguchi. Defended in 2017. Dissertation: The Formal Pragmatics of Non-At-Issue Intensification in English and Japanese. Now in a permanent semantics position at Carleton University in Ottawa. Not identical to Ai Kubota.
- Curt Anderson. Defended in 2016. Dissertation: Intensification and attenuation across categories (on attenuation, intensification, approximation, and slack regulation). Currently a postdoc at the University of Düsseldorf.
- Ai Kubota. Defended in 2016. Dissertation on evaluative adverbs and related issues in Japanese. Now a postdoc at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). Not identical to Ai Taniguchi.
- Olga Eremina. Defended in 2011. Dissertation on indefinites in Russian. Now associate professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Previously at Middlebury and Dartmouth Colleges.
- Irina Agafonova. Defended in 2010. Dissertation on conjunction in Russian. Her work had a computational component, on which she was advised by John Hale. Most recently teaching at Concordia University.
- Matt (Elvis) Husband. Defended in 2010. Dissertation on stativity and aspectual composition. Now an associate professor at the University of Oxford.
Additional doctoral students whose committees I chaired for a number of years before my departure from MSU:
- Josh Herrin. Worked (among other things) on superlatives, of, and fronting of degree words inside nominals (the tallest of people, so tall (of) a person).
- Yan Cong. Worked (among other things) on subjectivity in Mandarin.
MA thesis committees I’ve chaired (excluding MAs by exam):
- Adam Gobeski. Defended in 2009. Thesis on factor phrases. Went on to the doctoral program.
- Taehoon Hendrik Kim. Defended 2016. Thesis on concessivity and predicate focus in Korean. Now in the linguistics Ph.D. program at UCLA.
- Chris O’Brien. Defended in 2012. Thesis on complement coercion in aspectual verbs. Recently completed the linguistics Ph.D. program at MIT.
- Ai Matsui (Kubota). Defended in 2008. Thesis on concessive conditionals in Japanese. Went on to the doctoral program. Now Ai Kubota.
I’ve also supervised a fair number of BA theses. The vast majority these students of them have gone on to sensible lives outside of linguistics, so I won’t mention their sordid linguistics past here. Others, however, remained in the field:
- Haley Farkas. 2015. Went on to the linguistics doctoral program at Northwestern, and ultimately to the University of Southern California’s.
- Taehoon Kim. 2012. Went on to MSU linguistics MA program.
- Karl DeVries. 2010. Currently in the linguistics Ph.D. program at the University of California Santa Cruz.
- Alex Clarke. 2009. Went on to MSU linguistics MA program.
- David Hunter. 2007. Went on to linguistics MA program at the University of Amsterdam.
- Peter (Peet/Pedro) Klecha. 2007. Went on to the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago and visiting positions at Ohio State, Swarthmore College, and the University of Connecticut.