Marcin Morzycki
Students
Doctoral students I’ve advised (in the US sense) and supervised (in the Canadian sense):
- Starr Sandoval. In progress. Working on on Ktunaxa, non-intersective modification, adjunct questions, expressive meaning and intensification.
- Rose Underhill. Defended in 2024. Dissertation on plurality in Ktunaxa, showing that the language structures its plurals around the notion of grouphood rather than mere multiplicity. This ultimately explains a correlation between plurality and animacy.
- Adam Gobeski. Defended in 2019. Dissertation on factor phrases across categories and the grammar of arithmetic.
- Cara Feldscher. Defended in 2019. Dissertation on means of providing additional information across domains—for individuals, degrees, and events—including also, still, and again.
- Ai Taniguchi. Defended in 2017. Dissertation: The Formal Pragmatics of Non-At-Issue Intensification in English and Japanese. Assistant professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Not identical to Ai Kubota below.
- Curt Anderson. Defended in 2016. Dissertation on attenuation, intensification, approximation, and slack regulation. Held positions at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Universität Düsseldorf, and most recently at Gap International.
- Ai Kubota. Defended in 2016. Dissertation on evaluative adverbs and related issues in Japanese. Went on to positions at Williams College and, currently, the University of Tokyo. Not identical to Ai Taniguchi above.
- Olga Eremina. Defended in 2011. Dissertation on indefinites in Russian. Went on to positions at Middlebury College, Dartmouth College, and the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
- Irina Agafonova. Defended in 2010. Dissertation on conjunction in Russian. Her work had a computational component, on which she was advised by John Hale. Went on to a teaching position at Concordia University.
- Matt (Elvis) Husband. Defended in 2010. Dissertation on stativity and aspectual composition. Associate professor at the University of Oxford.
Doctoral students I advised for a number of years at my previous job:
- Josh Herrin. Worked on (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 on (among other things) 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. Went on to 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 above.
There’s some BA theses I’ve advised. Most of these students have gone on to sensible lives outside of linguistics and I won’t mention their sordid linguistics past here. Others, however, remained in the field for longer:
- Natasha Chemey. 2018. Went on to the linguistics doctoral program at Rutgers.
- 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. Went on to 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.