#  Week of April 7, 2014 

 





April 06, 2014

 

 

### Thesis Defense

**[Chi-Ming (Louis) Liu](http://cmluyiliu.wordpress.com/)[  ](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~nicolae/Andreea_Nicolae/Home.html)**[*A Modular Theory of Radical Pro Drop*  ](/file_url/221)Tuesday, April 8 | 3pm-5:30pm | Boylston 303

### Polinsky Wins Advising Award

Professor **[Maria Polinsky](http://scholar.harvard.edu/mpolinsky/home)**, Linguistics Director of Undergraduate Studies, has won a faculty advising award from the [Star Family Prizes for Excellence in Advising](http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/4/3/12-star-advising-awards/?page=1) from the [Advising Programs Office](http://apo.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do). Established three years ago, the award recognizes 12 advisors each year for their outstanding guidance and mentorship in their work with undergraduates. Congratulations, Masha!

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Language Universals/Polinsky Lab Meeting 

**Duygu Ozge** (Harvard University)  
*[Morpheme-based incremental processing in head-final child language](/event/universals-reading-group-duygu-ozge)*  
Wednesday, April 9 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)

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GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop:

**[Nicholas Zair](http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/naz21/)** (University of Cambridge)  
*[Why the Oscans couldn't spell, and what it tells us about Oscan](/event/nicholas-zair-university-cambridge)*  
Wednesday, April 9 | 5:15pm | Boylston 303

> I will be talking about the spelling of Oscan inscriptions written in the Greek alphabet from the south of Italy. Contrary to previous suggestions, I'll show that there were no fixed spelling conventions for these inscriptions; this variation provides evidence for interesting things to do with the phonology and morphology of Oscan (and Proto-Italic), and also has implications for approaches to the dating of inscriptions and the sociolinguistics of Oscan in the south.

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Linguistics Circle Workshop 

**[Mark Baker](http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mabaker/)** (Rutgers University)  
*[Parameters of Structural Case](/event/circles-mark-baker)* Thursday, April 10 | 5:30pm | Sever Hall 306

### Clemens at University of Iowa

Lauren Eby Clemens gave a colloquium talk on her work "[A Prosodic Account of Niuean Pseudo Noun Incorporation](http://clas.uiowa.edu/linguistics/resources/events/colloquia)" on Thursday, April 3 at the University of Iowa.

### Harvard at GLOW 37

A number of student and faculty presenters represented Harvard at the 37th [Generative Linguistics in the Old World](http://www.glow37.org/colloquium/programme) (GLOW) that took place April 2-4 in Brussels:

- Zuzanna Fuchs, Maria Polinsky, and Gregory Scontras: ‘The Differential Representation of Number and Gender in Spanish’
- Yimei Xiang: Focus structure and NPI-licensing
- Laura Grestenberger: Localizing Voice in bivalent voice systems: passive and middle in Sanskrit and Greek
- Isabelle Charnavel: The Clitic Binding Restriction revisited: evidence for antilogophoricity (joint work with Victoria Mateu, UCLA)



 

 

 



 

 

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