Post-Thanksgiving Post (Events at Harvard and Around Town)
Welcome Back to Campus Linguists!
Congratulations to Conor Walsh, undergraduate linguistics concentrator, who has been selected for a Mitchell Scholarship to study language planning through the Irish Language.
On the afternoon of Saturday, November 19th, we held our first Graduate Student Workshop. In case you missed it, here is a list of the talks. Please email the presenter directly if you would like a copy of the handout.
- Towards a semantics for partial control, Hazel Pearson
- A solution to Soames’ problem: presuppositions, conditionals and exhaustification, Jacopo Romoli
- The role of empty subjects in relative-clause constructions, Louis Liu
- V2 in a V1 language, Lauren Eby Clemens
- Negative raising and focus-sensitivity, Yimei Xiang
- Chinese interclausal anaphor and the view of theory, Shunting Chen
- Numerals ≠indefinite quantifiers, Jing Jin
- In search of D, Edwin Tsai
This week at Harvard...
On Wednesday, November 30, 5:00 p.m. at 2 Arrow Street, Roger Levy (University of California San Diego) will present "The processing of extraposed relative clauses” for the Polinsky Language Sciences Lab.
On Friday, December 2, 4:00 p.m. in Boylston 105, Chris Kennedy (University of Chicago), as part of the GSAS Workshop Linguistic Circles will present “A Neo-Fregean Semantics for Number Words.”
Around Town...
MIT: On Monday, November 28, 5:00 p.m. in 32D-831, Donca Steriade (MIT) will present " The cycle without containment: the phonology of the Romance perfect."