We’re extremely delighted to share the news that Shay Hucklebridge successfully defended her dissertation on Wednesday, July 12th. Titled “Associative Plurals”, her dissertation puts forth a novel semantic and syntactic analysis of so-called ‘associative plurals’, one that captures a variety of their cross-linguistically robust interactions with other grammatical constructions.

Pictured above (along with the dissertation fish), her committee consisted of Seth Cable (Chair), Ana Arregui, Rajesh Bhatt, Gennaro Chierchia, and Maya Eddon (Philosophy, Outside Member).

In the fall, Shay will begin a prestigious SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she will be working on language revitalization projects and on the semantics of future marking in the Dene languages of the Canadian Subarctic.

Congratulations, Shay!!