GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

José Luis García Ramón (Universität zu Köln)
Seminar: A Linguistic Continuum in Post-Mycenaean Central Greece: Dialects in Contact and Phylogeny
Monday, November 9 | 5-7pm | Boylston 237

Lecture: Greek Onomastics, Phraseology and Indo-European Poetic Language: From the Files of a New Edition of Bechtel's Die historischen Personennamen des Griechischen
Tuesday, November 10 | 6-8pm | Barker 114

Language Universals Workshop 

Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins)
An articulatory-phonetic account of vowel epenthesis into nonnative consonant clusters
Friday, November 13 | 4:00pm | Boylston 335

SNEWS @ Harvard

This year's Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS), an annual graduate student conference that brings together presenters from Harvard, MIT, Brown, Yale, UMass and UConn, will take place at Harvard on Saturday, November 21. The program of the workshop can be found below. Please RSVP by filling out this form.

Saturday, November 21, 2015
Boylston Hall 105

9:00 – 9:30    Breakfast

9:30 – 9:45    Opening Remarks

Morning Session

9:45 – 10:15      Jovana Gajić, University of Göttingen/ Harvard University
                            Negative coordination and focus particle: Serbo-Croatian ni

10:15 – 10:45    Naomi Francis, MIT
                            A curious pattern in future-oriented if only conditionals

10:45 – 11:15    Jyoti Iyer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
                             Indeterminates in Tamil – scope puzzles

11:15 – 11:30   Break

11:30 – 12:00    Aurore González, Harvard University & Sophie Moracchini, MIT
                      Morphologically complex expressions: analyzing le moindre as superlative + even

12:00 – 12:30    Junwen Lee, Brown University
                             The interaction between focus and the Q’anjob’al particle k’al

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:00 – 14:30    Daniel Margulis, MIT
                             Expletive negation and temporal alternatives in until-clauses

14:30 – 15:00    Teodora Mihoc, Harvard University
                             Romanian Bare Nominals and the Nominal Mapping Parameter

15:00 – 15:15   Break

15:15 – 15:45    Paul Marty, MIT
                             Syntactic Manner: the case of strong crossover effects

15:45 – 16:15    Sara Sanchez Alonso, Yale University
                             Processing Spanish Copulas: the Influence of Contextual Modulation

16:15 – 16:45    Jon Ander Mendia, University of Massachusetts Amherst
                             Complex cardinals of approximation in Spanish 

16:45 – 17:00   Break

17:00 – 17:30   Pooja Paul, Harvard University

                             One-sided numeral interpretations as modalized scalar inferences

17:30 – 18:00   Yao-ying Lai, Yale University
                             The Structured Individual Hypothesis for Processing Aspectual Verbs

18:00 – 18:15   Business meeting

19:00 Party