Amy Rose Deal (2010 UMass PhD) has just heard that she has been awarded tenure at UC Berkeley.

Amy Rose is a semanticist, syntactician, and fieldworker. The big questions that interest her “concern cross-linguistic variation: How much variation is there in syntax? How much is there in semantics? How can we tell syntactic and semantic variation apart?” She finds answers to those questions mostly by investigating Nez Perce, a Sahaptian language of the Columbia River Plateau.