Kaden Holladay successfully defended his PhD dissertation on August 8! His dissertation “ `You’ will always have ‘me’,” explains the typology of person distinctions in the World’s languages with a novel semantics of second person, and a syntax that builds the meanings of pronouns from simple primitive features. Kaden will be joining the linguistics department at Western Washington University next month.
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