Whamit! will be on semi-hiatus over the summer, as usual. We will continue to publish breaking MIT Linguistics news as it happens. Weekly posts will resume in the Fall.

Thanks to our editors, contributors, and of course all our readers! See you all in the Fall!

We are delighted to announce the open-access publication of the paper “Hidden Causality on Modern Greek” by fourth-year grad student Anastasia Tsilia in the journal Natural Language Semantics.

Congratulations, Anastasia!!

Anastasia’s website: https://www.anastasiatsilia.com

link to paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11050-025-09235-w

Congratulations to finishing student Omri Doron, who has accepted a position as Visiting Faculty in semantics at UMass Amherst for next year!!   

Congratulations to our wonderful advanced degree recipients who marched in MIT’s commencement ceremony on May 29 and received their well-deserved diplomas!

Eunsun Jou and Enrico Flor, receiving the degree of Doctor of Science in Linguistics

Soledad Chango and Renhard Saupia, receiving the degree of Master of Science in Linguistics — graduates of our Indigenous Language Program (MITILI)

Thank you all for enriching our community and the field during your years at MIT!!

MIT commencement video: https://commencement.mit.edu/SHASS-Advanced-Degree-Ceremony