# Summer 2015 August 21, 2015 Here are some news from the summer: ### Harvard at LSRL45 Assistant Professor ****[Isabelle Charnavel](https://sites.google.com/site/isabellecharnavel/)**** presented her work titled "Exempt Anaphors and Logophoricity in French" at [the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 45)](http://www.iel.unicamp.br/lsrl2015/), which took place in Campinas, Brazil, May 6-9. ### Harvard at MFM **[Gašper Beguš](/people/ga%C5%A1per-begu%C5%A1)** presented his work titled Devoicing in intervocalic position? at [the 23rd Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm)](http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/mfm/23mfm-abbk.pdf), which took place at the University of Manchester, May 28-30. ### Harvard at ECIEC34 The following talks featured Harvard presenters at [the 34th East Coast Indo-European Conference (ECIEC34)](https://www.univie.ac.at/indogermanistik/wsg/ECIEC_2015.pdf), which took place in Vienna, Austria, June 4-7. - ******[Hannes Fellner](http://scholar.harvard.edu/fellner/home)****** (PhD 2013): Tocharian “i-mutation” - ****[Laura Grestenberger](https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/cmll/faculty.html?fpid=laura-grestenberger)**** (PhD 2014): Greek aorists and the “alphathematic” conjugation - **[Marek Majer](/people/marek-majer)**: The derivational history of the Balto-Slavic numerals in \*-ero- - ****[Jeremy Rau](/people/jeremy-rau)****: Ancient Greek φείδομαι ### Harvard at TEAL10 The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters at [the 10th International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL10)](http://www.tufs.ac.jp/blog/ts/g/teal10tokyo/teal-10.html) that took place at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) in Tokyo, Japan, June 13-14. In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the workshop also featured a speech by Professor **[C.-T. James](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ctjhuang/)[ Huang](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ctjhuang/)**, one of the co-founders. - **[Dorothy Ahn](http://scholar.harvard.edu/dorothyahn)** and **[Isabelle Charnavel](https://sites.google.com/site/isabellecharnavel/)**: Disentangling locality from logophoricity: the case of Korean anaphors caki-casin and cachey - **[Yujing Huang](/people/yujing-huang)**: Prominent or not: new evidence for positional markedness ### Harvard at ImPres **[Yimei Xiang](http://scholar.harvard.edu/yxiang/home)** presented her work titled "Mention-all versus mention-some: Exhaustivity and sensitivity to false answers" at [Experimental and crosslinguistic evidence for the distinction between implicatures and presuppositions (ImPres)](https://implicaturesandpresuppositions.wordpress.com/program/), a workshop that took place at ZAS Berlin, Germany, July 1-3. Also at the workshop was **[Jacopo Romoli](http://www.jacoporomoli.com/Home.html)** (PhD 2012) who gave his invited talk titled "On the idea that some presuppositions are scalar implicatures: the view from acquisition and Broca’s Aphasia”. ### Harvard at XPRAG 2015 [Experimental Pragmatics 2015 (XPRAG 2015)](https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/xprag2015/) took place from July 16 to July 18, at the University of Chicago. The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters: - **[Andreea Nicolae](https://sites.google.com/site/andreeanicolae/)** (PhD 2013) and Uli Sauerland (ZAS): [“Levels of exclusivity”](http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/xprag2015/files/2015/06/Xprag15-abstract-nicolar-sauerland.pdf) - **[Greg Scontras](http://web.stanford.edu/~scontras/Gregory_Scontras.html)** (PhD 2014) and Noah Goodman (Stanford): [“The role of context in plural predication”](http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/xprag2015/files/2015/06/XPrag-2015-named-abstract.pdf) - **[Yimei Xiang](http://scholar.harvard.edu/yxiang/home)**: [“Sensitivity to false answers”](https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/xprag2015/files/2015/06/xprag2015_final_yxiang.pdf) ### Harvard at EGG 7 **[Aurore Gonzalez](/people/aurore-gonzalez)**[](/people/aurore-gonzalez)'s collaboration work with Elizabeth Heredia Murillo (University of Nantes) and Hamida Demirdache (University of Nantes) titled "Negative Coordination in Spanish vs. French" was presented at [VII Encuentro de Gramática Generativa (EGG 7)](https://sites.google.com/site/encuentrogg7/program), which took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 29-31. ### Harvard at SICOGG17 ****[Jenny Lee](http://syleejenny.wix.com/home)**** presented her work titled "Null applicative in Ranmo" at [the 17th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 17)](http://www.kggc.org/modules/bbs/index.php?code=notice&mode=view&id=45&___M_ID=27) which took place in Seoul, South Korea, August 5-8. ### Harvard at ESSLLI 2015 [The 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI 2015)](http://www.esslli2015.org/) took place at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, August 3-14, 2015. Second-year **[Aurore Gonzalez](/people/aurore-gonzalez) and third-year ****[Zuzanna Fuchs](/people/zuzanna-fuchs)**** attended the summer school, and Assistant Professor **[Kathryn Davidson](https://sites.google.com/site/kathryndavidson/)** taught a course titled "The meaning of space: New advances in Sign Language Semantics" with Jeremy Kuhn. The following talks featured Harvard presenters: - **[Aurore Gonzalez](/people/aurore-gonzalez):** [Negative Coordination in French](http://esslli-stus-2015.phil.hhu.de/) - **[Greg Scontras](http://web.stanford.edu/~scontras/Gregory_Scontras.html)** (PhD 2014) and **Noah Goodman**: [Interpreting collective predication](http://ling.rochester.edu/sgrimm/ExAS/program.html) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)