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Colin Hirschberg<\/strong><\/h5>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/09\/Colin-Kim-Hirschberg-761x1024.jpg\")
<\/strong><\/h4>\nHi, I\u2019m Colin Hirschberg. I grew up in Fremont, California and completed a linguistics major and math minor at UC Santa Cruz in December 2022. I knew I was destined for linguistics when, in my foreign language courses, I started to inquire native speakers on the grammar rather than limit myself to the textbook and the lessons.<\/p>\n
My research interests in linguistics have been scattered, but I am considering narrowing down to phonology. On the syntax-semantics interface, I explored, in my BA thesis, the semantic restrictions on passives and other externalizations (e.g., middles, nominalization, and clefts). Specifically, I used the notion of affectedness (the degree of change enacted by one event participant on another) to unify verb-type restrictions and thematic restrictions on Mandarin bei<\/em>-passives and English get<\/em>– and be<\/em>-passives. In phonology, I developed, last year, an OT and AP analysis of Kazakh back and round vowel harmonies and hope to address what factors account for the variation in Kazakh\u2019s frequency of roundness harmony.<\/p>\nAside from linguistics, I enjoy studying Kazakh and other natural languages both at home and abroad. On the rare occasions when I manage to separate myself from linguistics and languages, I garden, jog, go hiking, travel, and revisit math proofs.<\/p>\n
\nYanzhen Huang (Catherine)<\/strong><\/h5>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/09\/Catherine-768x1024.jpg\")
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I\u2019m a first year PhD in the linguistics department. I am interested in degree semantics, event semantics, acquisition, and computational linguistics. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Statistics and Machine\u00a0Learning. Then I got a Master\u2019s in Theoretical Linguistics at Georgetown University. Outside of work, I have many hobbies. I enjoy dancing, hiking, climbing, reading, watching movies, listening to music, going to various shows and art museums. I am currently taking hip hop lessons. I am excited for the winter to come so I can learn snowboarding. I love trying new things and temporarily adopting my friends\u2019 hobbies, particularly activities that help me stay active as a PhD student.<\/p>\n
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\nSiyuan Cao<\/strong><\/h5>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/09\/Siyuan-Cao-576x1024.jpg\")
<\/strong><\/h5>\nHello everyone. I am Siyuan, and I come from a very small county in east China. I was an English major during my undergraduate study in Nanjing University, where I learned a lot about literature and little about linguistics. Starting from then, I have found myself to be very engaged in systematic formalization, and I later went on to study as an master of logic at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) from the University of Amsterdam.<\/p>\n
My primary research focus is semantics, though my interest in general linguistics was initially aroused by syntax. I did my master\u2019s thesis on a particular wh-indefinite in Mandarin using a logical framework from my supervisors, Maria Aloni and Marco Degano. My thesis explored its epistemic indefinite uses and its dual role as both an indefinite and a question word.<\/p>\n
Besides linguistics, I am a theater person (though have basically not attended any performances in the past year), a movie lover (though have not watched any recently), and a gamer (though stopped playing any other game ever since I started Splatoon 3).<\/p>\n
\nKrishna Pulipaty<\/strong><\/h5>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/lgsa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2024\/09\/Krishna-Pulipaty.png\")
Hello, my name is Pulipaty Krishna Chaithanya. (Telugu speakers have their surname at the beginning, so my given name is Krishna Chaithanya. Please call me Krishna.)<\/span><\/p>\nI would like to pursue my research in syntax at Rutgers. I am also interested in morphology and semantics. Outside of linguistics, I love literature, especially novels and poetry. I like to read literature in both sets of languages \u2013 the ones that I know pretty well and those that I am starting to learn now. I am also very interested in politics and history and try to find time to read in them too.<\/p>\n
I love nature and don\u2019t want to lose an opportunity for a nice hike or walk in the middle of it. I am looking forward to making the most of my stay in the United States by exploring the unique elements of nature around here.<\/p>\n
I was born and grew up in India. For my undergraduate in Osmania University (in Hyderabad, India), I studied Electronics and Communications Engineering with a few courses taken in Computer Science. Then I started working in IT services industry. In my early 20\u2019s, I moved to Australia for my IT work and lived there since. Now I am excited to be in the US to study theoretical linguistics.<\/p>\n
I only spoke Telugu until I was 17 or so. I grew up in rural India and went to a school where the medium of instruction was Telugu. When I moved to Hyderabad, a big city in the area, for my undergraduate, I became very interested in learning other languages. I slowly taught myself English and Hindi\/Urdu. I was intrigued by the Perso-Arabic script of Urdu found on signs and shop names in Hyderabad and decided to learn Urdu seriously. Later, I came to be fascinated by ancient Indian history and started teaching myself Sanskrit.<\/p>\n
Though I was still interested in languages and always wanted to do something about them, I hadn\u2019t got an opportunity to study them in a university in my 20\u2019s. Then, I decided to take courses in linguistics in the University of Melbourne part-time while working in IT full-time. Finally, I completed my Graduate Diploma in Linguistics part-time over a few years. Now I am very glad to be at Rutgers to study theoretical linguistics full-time. I am looking forward to making a good use of my stay at Rutgers to learn something and do something!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
<\/strong><\/h4>\nHi, I\u2019m Colin Hirschberg. I grew up in Fremont, California and completed a linguistics major and math minor at UC Santa Cruz in December 2022. I knew I was destined for linguistics when, in my foreign language courses, I started to inquire native speakers on the grammar rather than limit myself to the textbook and the lessons.<\/p>\n
My research interests in linguistics have been scattered, but I am considering narrowing down to phonology. On the syntax-semantics interface, I explored, in my BA thesis, the semantic restrictions on passives and other externalizations (e.g., middles, nominalization, and clefts). Specifically, I used the notion of affectedness (the degree of change enacted by one event participant on another) to unify verb-type restrictions and thematic restrictions on Mandarin bei<\/em>-passives and English get<\/em>– and be<\/em>-passives. In phonology, I developed, last year, an OT and AP analysis of Kazakh back and round vowel harmonies and hope to address what factors account for the variation in Kazakh\u2019s frequency of roundness harmony.<\/p>\n Aside from linguistics, I enjoy studying Kazakh and other natural languages both at home and abroad. On the rare occasions when I manage to separate myself from linguistics and languages, I garden, jog, go hiking, travel, and revisit math proofs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019m a first year PhD in the linguistics department. I am interested in degree semantics, event semantics, acquisition, and computational linguistics. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Statistics and Machine\u00a0Learning. Then I got a Master\u2019s in Theoretical Linguistics at Georgetown University. Outside of work, I have many hobbies. I enjoy dancing, hiking, climbing, reading, watching movies, listening to music, going to various shows and art museums. I am currently taking hip hop lessons. I am excited for the winter to come so I can learn snowboarding. I love trying new things and temporarily adopting my friends\u2019 hobbies, particularly activities that help me stay active as a PhD student.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hello everyone. I am Siyuan, and I come from a very small county in east China. I was an English major during my undergraduate study in Nanjing University, where I learned a lot about literature and little about linguistics. Starting from then, I have found myself to be very engaged in systematic formalization, and I later went on to study as an master of logic at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) from the University of Amsterdam.<\/p>\n My primary research focus is semantics, though my interest in general linguistics was initially aroused by syntax. I did my master\u2019s thesis on a particular wh-indefinite in Mandarin using a logical framework from my supervisors, Maria Aloni and Marco Degano. My thesis explored its epistemic indefinite uses and its dual role as both an indefinite and a question word.<\/p>\n Besides linguistics, I am a theater person (though have basically not attended any performances in the past year), a movie lover (though have not watched any recently), and a gamer (though stopped playing any other game ever since I started Splatoon 3).<\/p>\n I would like to pursue my research in syntax at Rutgers. I am also interested in morphology and semantics. Outside of linguistics, I love literature, especially novels and poetry. I like to read literature in both sets of languages \u2013 the ones that I know pretty well and those that I am starting to learn now. I am also very interested in politics and history and try to find time to read in them too.<\/p>\n I love nature and don\u2019t want to lose an opportunity for a nice hike or walk in the middle of it. I am looking forward to making the most of my stay in the United States by exploring the unique elements of nature around here.<\/p>\n I was born and grew up in India. For my undergraduate in Osmania University (in Hyderabad, India), I studied Electronics and Communications Engineering with a few courses taken in Computer Science. Then I started working in IT services industry. In my early 20\u2019s, I moved to Australia for my IT work and lived there since. Now I am excited to be in the US to study theoretical linguistics.<\/p>\n I only spoke Telugu until I was 17 or so. I grew up in rural India and went to a school where the medium of instruction was Telugu. When I moved to Hyderabad, a big city in the area, for my undergraduate, I became very interested in learning other languages. I slowly taught myself English and Hindi\/Urdu. I was intrigued by the Perso-Arabic script of Urdu found on signs and shop names in Hyderabad and decided to learn Urdu seriously. Later, I came to be fascinated by ancient Indian history and started teaching myself Sanskrit.<\/p>\n Though I was still interested in languages and always wanted to do something about them, I hadn\u2019t got an opportunity to study them in a university in my 20\u2019s. Then, I decided to take courses in linguistics in the University of Melbourne part-time while working in IT full-time. Finally, I completed my Graduate Diploma in Linguistics part-time over a few years. Now I am very glad to be at Rutgers to study theoretical linguistics full-time. I am looking forward to making a good use of my stay at Rutgers to learn something and do something!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nYanzhen Huang (Catherine)<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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\nSiyuan Cao<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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\nKrishna Pulipaty<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Hello, my name is Pulipaty Krishna Chaithanya. (Telugu speakers have their surname at the beginning, so my given name is Krishna Chaithanya. Please call me Krishna.)<\/span><\/p>\n