Week of May 5, 2014

Senior Thesis Colloquium

Tuesday, May 6 | 2:15pm-4:30pm | Sever 102

This year's Senior Thesis Colloquium will take place tomorrow, Tuesday May 6. The event will feature a welcoming remarks by Professor Maria Polinsky. More information can be found in the program.

Department Spring Reception

Tuesday, May 6 | 5:15pm | Boylston

The Department of Linguistics will have its Spring Reception on Tuesday, May 6th at 5:15 pm. We hope everyone is able to attend!

Polinsky Lab Meeting 

Gregory Scontras (Harvard University)
The Semantics of Morphological Number
Wednesday, May 7 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)

Harvard at LSRL

Assistant Professor Isabelle Charnavel gave two talks at the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL) which took place at Western University in London, Ontario, May 2-4. Incoming graduate student Aurore Gonzalez also presented at the symposium.

  • Isabelle Charnavel: How French sheds new light on scalar particles
  • Isabelle Charnavel: Clitic Coreference Restrictions and Antilogophoricity in French and Spanish (joint work with Victoria Mateu (UCLA))
  • Aurore Gonzalez & Hamida Demirdache (LLING-EA 3827) Negative Coordination: ni vs. ni ... ni in French

Congratulations, Dr. Clemens!

Congratulations to Lauren Eby Clemens who has successfully defended her dissertation, "Prosodic noun incorporation and verb-initial syntax."


[Photo by Laine Stranahan]



Left to right: Ryan Bennett, Kevin Ryan, Lauren Eby Clemens, Maria Polinsky, Sharon Rice, Matt Clemens, Baby Beatrice
[Photo by Kate Pilson]

Congratulations, Lauren!