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Week of September 14, 2015

Harvard at SLS 2015

Marek Majer presented his work titled "Šatrovački – the autosegmental status of vowel length and tone in a syllable switching argot" at the 10th Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistics Society (SLS), which took place at Heidelberg University, Germany, September 4-6.

Harvard at SuB20

The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters at the 20th meeting of Sinn und Bedeutung (SuB20) that took place at the University of Tübingen, Germany, September 8-11.

  • Dorothy Ahn: NPI intervention of too
  • Andreea Nicolae (PhD 2013) & Uli Sauerland (ZAS): A contest of strength: "or" versus "either or"
  • Yimei Xiang: Complete and true: a uniform analysis for mention-some and mention-all questions

Polinsky Named LSA Fellow

Professor Maria Polinsky has been named a Class of 2016 LSA Fellow. Congratulations, Masha!

Language Universals Workshop: Fall 2015

  • Oct 16: Noah Goodman (Stanford)
  • Nov 13: Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins)

For more information and updates, please check the Language Universals Workshop page.