#  Summer Update #2 

 





August 07, 2017

 

 

###  Harvard at ICLC 14

 [Laine Stranahan](https://scholar.harvard.edu/stranahan/home) presented "Cognitive Load Impairs but does not Suspend Contrastive Inference" (joint work with Dylan Hardenbergh and [Jesse Snedeker](https://software.rc.fas.harvard.edu/lds/research/snedeker/jesse-snedeker/)) at the [14th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference](http://iclc14.ut.ee/avaleht) at the University of Tartu in Tartu, Estonia, on July 10th.

###  Harvard at XPrag 2017

 [Teodora Mihoc](https://scholar.harvard.edu/tmihoc/home) presented "Testing a PPI Analysis of Superlative Modified Numerals" (joint work with [Kathryn Davidson](https://scholar.harvard.edu/kathryndavidson)) at the [7th Experimental Pragmatics Conference](http://xprag2017.uni-koeln.de/26894.html) in Köln, Germany, on June 23rd.

###  Harvard at FEAST 2017

 [Kathryn Davidson](https://scholar.harvard.edu/kathryndavidson)'s joint work with Ronice Quadros, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Karen Emmorey, titled "Depicting Signs in Bimodal Billingual Code-Blending", was presented at the [6th Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory](https://sites.google.com/site/feastconference/home/conferences/feast_reykjavik_2017), at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik on June 21st.

###  Harvard at Linguistic Perspectives on Causation

 [Isabelle Charnavel](https://sites.google.com/site/isabellecharnavel/) presented her work titled "Linguistic Perspectives *in* Causation" at the workshop [Linguistic Perspectives on Causation](https://causalityconference.wordpress.com) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on June 29th.

###  Harvard at ESSLLI 29

 The following posters featured Harvard presenters at the [29th European Summer School of Language, Logic, and Information](https://www.irit.fr/esslli2017/), held at Toulouse Capitale University from the 17th-28th of July:

- [Gunnar Lund](/people/gunnar-lund) presented his work titled "Deriving *Even Though* from Even" (recipient of the Best Poster Award)
- [Yuyin He](/people/yuying-he) presented her work titled "Restructuring and Actuality Entailment in Mandarin Obligatory Control"

###  Harvard at SPP2017

 [Pooja Paul](https://scholar.harvard.edu/poojapaul) presented her work titled "Number Interpretation in Conditionals: A Revised Scalar Implicature-Based Account" at the [43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology](http://www.socphilpsych.org/2017SPPProgram.pdf), held at Johns Hopkins University from June 28th-July 1st.

###  Congratulations, Aleksei!

 Congratulations to [Aleksei Nazarov](https://alekseinazarov.org), who has accepted a position as Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Modern Languages at the [University of Huddersfield](https://www.hud.ac.uk/welcome/elalundergraduate/)!



 

 

 



 

 

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