#  Week of April 1, 2013 

 





March 23, 2013

 

 

### 8th Annual Whatmough Lecture

**[Bruce Hayes](http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/)** (UCLA)  
[The 8th Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Lecture](/news/viii-whatmough-lecture): *[Saltation in Phonology](/files/linguistics/files/viiiwhatmough.pdf)*  
Monday, April 1 | 4pm | Sever Hall 113

### Polinsky Lab Meeting

[Workshop on Construction Grammar](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=node/230)  
Wednesday, April 3 | 5:15-7pm | Polinsky Lab Room 420 (Conference Room)

### Information Structure and Word Order: Focusing on Asian Languages

   ![iswo.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/iswo.png?itok=OU4y0Vmz) 

 

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**

Sort9:15-9:30

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**

Sort2:00-2:50

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**

Sort9:30 - 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








 

 

 



 

 

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