#  Week of April 21, 2014 

 





April 13, 2014

 

 

### Thesis Defense

**[Laura Grestenberger](http://scholar.harvard.edu/grestenberger/)** [*Feature Mismatch: Deponency in Indo-European Languages*  ](/file_url/220)Wednesday, April 23 | 3pm-6pm | Boylston 303

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GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop:

[**Alan Nussbaum** ](http://linguistics.cornell.edu/people/Nussbaum.cfm)(Cornell University)  
*[Greek νῶκαρ ‘lethargy’ and Other Weighty Matters](/event/alan-nussbaum-cornell-university)*  
Friday, April 25 | 5:15pm | Boylston 303

### Harvard at ECO5

Three student presenters represented Harvard at this year's [Maryland-MIT-Harvard-UMass-UConn Workshop in Formal Linguistics](http://languagescience.umd.edu/center/events/eco5-workshop-2014/) (ECO5) that took place at the University of Maryland on April 19:

- Dorothy Ahn: '*Additive either as a disjunctive NPI counterpart of too*'
- Laurence B-Violette: '*Object-subject obviation: evidence from French*'
- Lena Borise: '*The Syntax of Answers to Negative Polarity Questions in English and Russian*'

### Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium

The [11th Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium at Harvard](/event/11th-annual-undergraduate-linguistics-colloquium-harvard) that took place this past weekend was a great success. Twenty-one undergraduates representing 13 different schools presented the results of their hard work and shared novel ideas or approaches to a broad range of issues in linguistics. The organizers of the event would especially like to thank Helen Lewis for all her help with organizing the event; Edwin Tsai for his constant reminders and advice; Professor Masha Polinsky for speaking at the opening ceremony; Professor Jacobsen for a great keynote talk; and to the linguistics department as a whole for the support, both in terms of funding and encouragement.

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Left to right: Kenneth Mai, Carl Rogers, Priyanka Sen (Organizers)\[Photos by Carl Rogers\]

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**[Richard Kayne](http://linguistics.as.nyu.edu/object/RichardSKayne.html)** (NYU)  
Friday, April 25| 3:30-5pm | [32-141](http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/32-141.html)

### IX Whatmough Lecture

**[Barbara Partee](http://people.umass.edu/partee/)** (UMass-Amherst)  
Monday, April 28, 2014 | 4:00pm to 6:00pm | Sever Hall 113

This year's [Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough](/pages/whatmough-lecture) will feature Barbara Partee, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy at UMass-Amherst. She is one of the founders of contemporary formal semantics.



 

 

 



 

 

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