{"id":1234,"date":"2020-07-20T20:30:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T20:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2020-07-20T20:34:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T20:34:23","slug":"morgan-moyer-successfully-defends-her-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/morgan-moyer-successfully-defends-her-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Moyer successfully defends her dissertation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, July 20, Morgan Moyer successfully defended her dissertation, &#8220;The question of questions: Resolving (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions.&#8221; Congratulations, Morgan! We&#8217;re so proud of you! And good luck with your NSF post-doc at Stanford next year!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1235\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/audience-congrats.png\" alt=\"audience congratulations\" width=\"676\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/audience-congrats.png 2676w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/audience-congrats-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/audience-congrats-1024x585.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/audience-congrats-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/audience-congrats-1536x878.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/audience-congrats-2048x1171.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who has a light?&#8221; We do!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1236 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/committee.png\" alt=\"Morgan's committee\" width=\"496\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/committee.png 1850w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/committee-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/committee-1024x793.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/committee-768x594.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/language-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2020\/07\/committee-1536x1189.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Morgan&#8217;s committee (top Left, clockwise): <strong>Alex Lascarides<\/strong> (external, Edinburgh),<strong> Veneeta Dayal<\/strong> (Yale), <strong>Kristen Syrett<\/strong> (Chair, RU Linguistics), <strong>Paul Pietroski<\/strong> (RU Philosophy), <strong>Morgan Moyer<\/strong> (defender!), <strong>Yimei Xiang<\/strong> (RU Linguistics)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, July 20, Morgan Moyer successfully defended her dissertation, &#8220;The question of questions: Resolving (non-)exhaustivity in wh-questions.&#8221; Congratulations, Morgan! 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