#  Summer 2020 

 





August 16, 2020

 

 

###  Welcome back!

 Welcome back, all! As usual, please refer to [Harvard's COVID-19 site](https://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus) for policies related to the ongoing pandemic, such as institutional plans, information on testing, remote resources, travel guidance, etc.

###  **Virtual Defense**

 Yuyin He Thesis Defense, Friday, August 21st; 11:00AM - 1:00PM

 Title: "Time in Mandarin: The Fingerprints of Tense and Finiteness"

###  Fall 2020 dates

- August 17 (12:00 am): Course registration for fall 2020 begins
- August 17 (11:59 pm): Check-In Deadline for fall 2020
- August 26 (11:59 pm): Course registration deadline
- September 2: First day of classes

 Please refer to Harvard's Academic Calendar ([College](https://registrar.fas.harvard.edu/harvard-college-academic-calendar), [GSAS](https://registrar.fas.harvard.edu/gsas-academic-calendar)) for further dates

###  Professor Davidson named John L. Loeb Associate Professor

 Professor [Kate Davidson](/people/kathryn-davidson) has been named John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities. The Loeb chair is one of a small number of endowed professorships for tenure-track faculty. It recognizes outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and departmental citizenship. Congratulations, Kate!

###  Welcome G1s!

 Please join me in welcoming the incoming first year graduate students: [Daria (Dasha) Bikina](/people/daria-bikina), [Tess Monks](/people/tess-monks), [Hayley Ross](/people/hayley-ross), and [Yi-Chi (Yvette) Wu](/people/yi-chi-wu). Welcome to the department!

###  Talks

 The following members of our department gave the following talks over the summer.

- [Jonathan Bobaljik](/people/jonathan-bobaljik) gave a mini course titled "Impossible Morphemes" at [V-NYI 2020](http://www.nyi.spb.ru/news/) (The (Virtual) New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture), held on July 20-31.
- [Jack Rabinovitch](/people/jack-rabinovitch) presented "Two ways to Existentially Close a Proposition" at [SICOGG 22](http://linguistlist.org/confservices/customhome.cfm?Emeetingid=5802JA44587E4458406050441) (22nd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar), held August 12-14.
- [Yingtong Liu](/people/yingtong-liu) presented "A Verb-frame Frequency Account of Constraints on Long-distance Dependencies in English" at [CNRS](http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/node/6489), on May 22.
- [Ethan Wilcox](/people/ethan-wilcox) presented: 
    - "A systematic assessment of syntactic generalization in neural language models" at [ACL 2020](https://acl2020.org/) (The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics), held July 5-10.
    - "SyntaxGym: An Online Platform for Targeted Evaluation of Language Models", also at ACL 2020.
    - "On the Predictive Power of Neural Language Models for Human Real-Time Comprehension Behavior" at [CogSci 2020](https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2020/) (The 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society).
- [Susi Wurmbrand](/people/susi-wurmbrand) gave a mini course titled "Topics in Syntax: Finiteness\*" at [V-NYI 2020](http://www.nyi.spb.ru/news/).

###  Zhang awarded IQSS research grant

 [Yuhan Zhang](/people/claire-zhang) was awarded [a research grant from Harvard's IQSS](https://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/yuhan-zhang) (The Institute for Quantitative Social Science). Congratulations, Yuhan!

###  Gonzalez published in *Snippets*

 [Aurore Gonzalez](/people/aurore-gonzalez) published an article titled "Exclusivity in unconditionals" in the July 2020 issue of *[Snippets](https://www.ledonline.it/snippets/)*. The paper is coauthored by Karoliina Lohiniva (NYU).




 

 

 



 

 

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