#  Week of April 28, 2014 

 





April 21, 2014

 

 

### IX Whatmough Lecture

**[Barbara Partee](http://people.umass.edu/partee/)** (UMass-Amherst)  
[The History of Formal Semantics: Changing Notions of Semantic Competence](/file_url/238)  
Monday, April 28, 2014 | 4:00pm to 6:00pm | Sever Hall 113

This year's [Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Lecture](/pages/whatmough-lecture) will feature **Barbara Partee[](http://people.umass.edu/partee/)**, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy at UMass-Amherst. Please find the [abstract](/file_url/230) here.

### Thesis Defense

**[Lauren Eby Clemens  ](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lreby/)***[Prosodic noun incorporation and verb-initial syntax](/file_url/246)*  
[](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lreby/)Wednesday, April 30 | 11am-2pm | Boylston 303

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Language Universals/Polinsky Lab Meeting 

**[Tyler Lau ](/people/tyler-lau-0)**(Harvard University)  
[The Interaction of Vowel Devoicing and Pitch Accent in Shiraho Yaeyaman](/event/universals-reading-group-tyler-lau-0)  
Wednesday, April 30 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)

### Harvard at PhoNE

**[Yujing Huang](/people/yujing-huang)** presented her work "Tone Sandhi Variation in Mandarin: a non-cyclic analysis" at the Phonology in the Northeast Conference (PhoNE), which took place at MIT on April 26.

### Next week at Harvard

[Senior Thesis Colloquium](/file_url/244)  
Tuesday, May 6 | 2:15pm-4:30pm | Sever 102

[Department Spring Reception](/file_url/245)  
Tuesday, May 6 | 5:15pm | Boylston

### Congratulations, Dr. Grestenberger!

Congratulations to **[Laura Grestenberger](http://scholar.harvard.edu/grestenberger/)** who has successfully defended her dissertation, "Feature Mismatch: Deponency in Indo-European Languages."

 ![defense.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/linguistics/files/defense_0.jpg)

 

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Left to right: Laura Grestenberger, Jay Jasanoff, and Marek MajerCongratulations, Laura!

\[Photos by Pooja Paul\]



 

 

 



 

 

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