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Summer 2015

Here are some news from the summer:

Harvard at LSRL45

Assistant Professor Isabelle Charnavel presented her work titled "Exempt Anaphors and Logophoricity in French" at the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45), which took place in Campinas, Brazil, May 6-9.

Harvard at MFM

Gašper Beguš presented his work titled Devoicing in intervocalic position? at the 23rd Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm), which took place at the University of Manchester, May 28-30.

Harvard at ECIEC34

The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the 34th East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC34), which took place in Vienna, Austria, June 4-7.

Harvard at TEAL10

The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters at the 10th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL10) that took place at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) in Tokyo, Japan, June 13-14. In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the workshop also featured a speech by Professor C.-T. James Huang, one of the co-founders.

Harvard at ImPres

Yimei Xiang presented her work titled "Mention-all versus mention-some: Exhaustivity and sensitivity to false answers" at Experimental and crosslinguistic evidence for the distinction between implicatures and presuppositions (ImPres), a workshop that took place at ZAS Berlin, Germany, July 1-3. Also at the workshop was Jacopo Romoli (PhD 2012) who gave his invited talk titled "On the idea that some presuppositions are scalar implicatures: the view from acquisition and Broca’s Aphasia”.

Harvard at XPRAG 2015

Experimental Pragmatics 2015 (XPRAG 2015) took place from July 16 to July 18, at the University of Chicago. The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters:

Harvard at EGG 7

Aurore Gonzalez's collaboration work with Elizabeth Heredia Murillo (University of Nantes) and Hamida Demirdache (University of Nantes) titled "Negative Coordination in Spanish vs. French" was presented at VII Encuentro de Gramática Generativa (EGG 7), which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 29-31.

Harvard at SICOGG17

Jenny Lee presented her work titled "Null applicative in Ranmo" at the 17th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 17) which took place in Seoul, South Korea, August 5-8.

Harvard at ESSLLI 2015

The 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI 2015) took place at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, August 3-14, 2015. Second-year Aurore Gonzalez and third-year Zuzanna Fuchs attended the summer school, and Assistant Professor Kathryn Davidson taught a course titled "The meaning of space: New advances in Sign Language Semantics" with Jeremy Kuhn. The following talks featured Harvard presenters: