Week of April 1, 2013
8th Annual Whatmough Lecture
Bruce Hayes (UCLA)
The 8th Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Lecture: Saltation in Phonology
Monday, April 1 | 4pm | Sever Hall 113
Polinsky Lab Meeting
Workshop on Construction Grammar
Wednesday, April 3 | 5:15-7pm | Polinsky Lab Room 420 (Conference Room)
Information Structure and Word Order: Focusing on Asian Languages
Saturday, April 6 | 9:15am-5:30pm
Sunday, April 7 | 9:30am-12:30pm | Harvard-Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA
Saturday, 6th April, 2013
Chair: Shuha Hu
9:15-9:30 | Opening (C. T. James Huang, Harvard University) |
9:30-10:20 | Caroline Féry (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) The role of Hindi and Indian English for a typology of intonation systems at the level of the sentence |
10:20-10:50 | Julie Jiang (Harvard University) Sentence initial position in Mandarin = Topic position? |
10:50-11:00 | Coffee break |
11:00-11:50 | Andrew Simpson (University of Southern California) On the syntactic derivation of post-verbal elements in SOV languages: Hindi, Bangla and the rightward scrambling debate |
11:50-12:20 | Edwin Tsai, Gregory Scontras, Kenneth Mai, Nina Radkevich, and Maria Polinsky (Harvard University) Quantifier scope in Chinese: An experimental study |
Chair: C.-T. James Huang
2:00-2:50 | Shuhua Hu (Minzu University of China) Does word order encode ergativity?-A case study on the split word order of SOV and OSV in Nuosu Yi language |
2:50-3:20 | Suleyman Ulutas (Harvard University) Word order alternation in Turkish: Stress, focus & linearization |
3:20-3:30 | Coffee break |
3:30-4:20 | Lauren Eby Clemens (Harvard University) What can prosody tell us about the derivation of verb-initial word order? |
4:20-4:50 | Sun-Hee Bae & Miwako Hisagi (Harvard University) Information structure and particle choice: Native and near-native speakers of Japanese and Korean |
4: 50-5:30 | C. -T. James Huang (Harvard University) Left-right asymmetries in extraction and information structure |
6:30 | Dinner |
Sunday, 7th April, 2013
Chair: Maria Polinsky
9:30 - 10:15 | Chenlong Huang (Chinese Academy of Social Science) Word Order and information structure in Qiang |
10:15-10:50 | Bei Wang (Harvard-Yenching Institute & Minzu University of China) Effect of information structure and animacy on word order: A cross-linguistic study |
10:50-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-11:30 | Noah Constant (University of Masschusetts Amherst) On the positioning of Mandarin contrastive topic –ne |
11:30-12:20 | John Whitman (Cornell University and Tsukuba University) T.B.A. |
12:20-12:30 | General Discussion |