#  Week of April 27, 2015 

 





April 25, 2015

 

 

### Spring 2015

The last day of Spring classes is Wednesday, April 29. The semester ends with exciting events at the Department this week:

**Linguistics Department Spring Reception**  
Wednesday, April 29 | 5:15pm to 7:15pm | 3rd floor Boylston  
*All undergradates, graduates, faculty, and visitors are invited!*

**Department of Linguistics Visitas Open House**  
Monday, April 27 | 10:00am-11:30am | Boylston 303  
*The Department of Linguistics is inviting current and incoming freshmen to our Open House. Join us for breakfast to learn more about linguistics via language games, five-minute lectures, and other entertainments.*

**Senior Thesis Colloquium**   
Thursday, April 30 | 3:00pm-5:00pm | Boylston 105  
*See [program ](/file_url/291)for more information.*

### Whatmough X Lecture

**[Jonathan D. Bobaljik](http://bobaljik.uconn.edu/JDB/Home.html)** (University of Connecticut)  
[Morphological Universals: Comparatives and Beyond](/event/whatmough-x-lecture)   
Monday, April 27 | 4:00-6:00pm | Sever Hall 113

*A reception will take place after the talk at the Harvard Faculty Club on Quincy Street.*

### Thesis Defense

**[Cheng-Yu (Edwin) Tsai](https://sites.google.com/site/cyedwintsai/)** [Toward a Theory of Mandarin Quantification](/event/cheng-yu-edwin-tsai-thesis-defense)  
Tuesday, April 28 | 5pm-7pm | Boylston 303

*Refreshments immediately following the defense in the Boylston Hall Lounge*

### Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Science of Language

Thursday, April 30th | 5:30-7pm | Yenching Auditorium

**Panelists:**

- Dr. Jesse Snedeker (Psychology)
- Dr. Gennaro Chierchia (Linguistics)
- Dr. Gina Kuperberg (Cognitive Neuroscience)
- Dr. Meredith Rowe (Education)

**Moderator:** Dr. Alfonso Caramazza

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GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

**Jeffrey Bourns** (Harvard University)  
[Cyberinfrastructure for Indo-European linguistics](/event/indo%E2%80%93european-jeffrey-bourns)  
Friday, May 1 | 4:00pm | Boylston 103

### Harvard at CLS

The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the 51st annual meeting of [Chicago Linguistics Society (CLS 51)](http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/index.html) that took place on April 23-25.

- **[Jenny Lee](http://syleejenny.wix.com/home)**: *Valency alternation in Ranmo: Implications for split ergativity*
- **[Isabelle Charnavel](https://sites.google.com/site/isabellecharnavel/)** & **[Christina Zlogar](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~czlogar/)**: *English Reflexive Logophors*

### 12th Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium at Harvard

The 12th Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium at Harvard took place this past weekend in the Science Center. Some of our own concentrators presented as well as undergraduates from elsewhere in the U.S., Canada, and even Germany. The program can be found [here](http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~ling/schedule.html).

### Clemens, Coon, Mateo Pedro, Morgan, Polinsky, and Tandet appear in NLLT

The paper ["Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: a view from Mayan"](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11049-014-9260-x) co-authored by Polinsky Lab members **[Lauren Clemens](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lreby/)**, **[Maria Polinsky](http://scholar.harvard.edu/mpolinsky)**, and **Gabrielle Tandet** '13 and former lab members **[Jessica Coon](http://people.linguistics.mcgill.ca/~jessica/Welcome.html)**, **Pedro Mateo Pedro**, and **Adam Milton Morgan** has been published in Volume 33, Issue 2 (2015) of [*Natural Language and Linguistic Theory*](http://link.springer.com/journal/11049).



 

 

 



 

 

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