Week of September 12, 2016

Senior Faculty Syntax Opening

The Department of Linguistics at Harvard University seeks to make a tenured appointment at the rank of Professor in the area of syntax. Details may be found here. Please contact Cheryl Murphy for more details.

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Dorothy Ahn
The, That, and THAT: Three definites across languages
Friday, September 16 | 12pm | Location: Boylston 303

Harvard at AMLaP

The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the 22nd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) conference that took place in Bilbao, Spain, in September.

  • Laine Stranahan with Dylan Hardenbergh and Jesse Snedeker (Harvard Psychology) - "Cognitive Load Impairs but does not Suspend Contrastive Inference" (Poster)
  • Yujing Huang - "The Unaccusative Hypothesis revisited: on the mismatch between syntax and lexical semantics" (Talk)

Harvard at CogSci 2016

Yujing Huang presented her work with Laine Stranahan and Jesse Snedeker,  titled "Reexamining the Unaccusative Hypothesis: a Visual World Paradigm study" at Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting 2016 (CogSci 2016), a meeting that took place in Philadelphia, in August.

Harvard at SuB21

Dorothy Ahn presented her work in a poster titled "Weak, Strong, and Deictic: Three Kinds of Definites" at the 21st Sinn und Bedeutung, a workshop that took place in Edinburgh, UK, September 4-6.

Harvard at MIT Workshop on Exhaustivity 2016

Harvard was well represented at the MIT Workshop on Exhaustivity 2016 that took place at MIT on September 10. The following talks featured Harvard presenters:

  • Yimei Xiang (PhD 2016) - "Mandarin particle dou: A pre-exhaustification exhaustifier", commentated by Professor Gennaro Chierchia.
  • Andreea Nicolae (PhD 2013) - "Reducing the locality of PPI anti-licensing to an instance of PPI shielding"
  • Assistant Professor Kathryn Davidson - "The contribution of sign languages toward a new unified picture of conjunction and disjunction"