Phillips to Join Department as Mellon Postdoc

Josh Phillips, who recently received his PhD from Yale University and is currently a postdoctoral fellow there working with Professor Claire Bowern, will be starting a two-year term as part of the Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities on September 1.  His research investigates the confluence of  semantics and language change, particularly with respect to phenomena such as tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of Australia.