Thesis Defense

Chi-Ming (Louis) Liu
A Modular Theory of Radical Pro Drop
Tuesday, April 8 | 3pm-5:30pm | Boylston 303

Polinsky Wins Advising Award

Professor Maria Polinsky, Linguistics Director of Undergraduate Studies, has won a faculty advising award from the Star Family Prizes for Excellence in Advising from the Advising Programs Office. Established three years ago, the award recognizes 12 advisors each year for their outstanding guidance and mentorship in their work with undergraduates. Congratulations, Masha!

Language Universals/Polinsky Lab Meeting 

Duygu Ozge (Harvard University)
Morpheme-based incremental processing in head-final child language
Wednesday, April 9 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop:

Nicholas Zair (University of Cambridge)
Why the Oscans couldn't spell, and what it tells us about Oscan
Wednesday, April 9 | 5:15pm | Boylston 303

I will be talking about the spelling of Oscan inscriptions written in the Greek alphabet from the south of Italy. Contrary to previous suggestions, I'll show that there were no fixed spelling conventions for these inscriptions; this variation provides evidence for interesting things to do with the phonology and morphology of Oscan (and Proto-Italic), and also has implications for approaches to the dating of inscriptions and the sociolinguistics of Oscan in the south.

Linguistics Circle Workshop 

Mark Baker (Rutgers University)
Parameters of Structural Case
Thursday, April 10 | 5:30pm | Sever Hall 306

Clemens at University of Iowa

Lauren Eby Clemens gave a colloquium talk on her work "A Prosodic Account of Niuean Pseudo Noun Incorporation" on Thursday, April 3 at the University of Iowa.

Harvard at GLOW 37

A number of student and faculty presenters represented Harvard at the 37th Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) that took place April 2-4 in Brussels:

• Zuzanna Fuchs, Maria Polinsky, and Gregory Scontras: ‘The Differential Representation of Number and Gender in Spanish’
• Yimei Xiang: Focus structure and NPI-licensing
• Laura Grestenberger: Localizing Voice in bivalent voice systems: passive and middle in Sanskrit and Greek
• Isabelle Charnavel: The Clitic Binding Restriction revisited: evidence for antilogophoricity (joint work with Victoria Mateu, UCLA)