#  Week of August 5, 2013 

 





July 29, 2013

 

 

## Polinsky in Moorea

As part of a research project with [Eric Potsdam](http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/potsdam/) (University of Florida) investigating the structure of wh-questions, Professor [Maria Polinsky](http://scholar.harvard.edu/mpolinsky) and graduate student [Lauren Clemens](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lreby/website/Home.html) recently visited the [Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station](http://moorea.berkeley.edu/) in Moorea, French Polynesia.

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Professor Polinsky (right) with Tahitian consultants.

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Professor Polinsky (right) with a Tahitian consultant.

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

A recent paper on ergativity in Mayan co-authored by Polinsky Lab members [Lauren Clemens](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lreby/website/Home.html), [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](http://scholar.harvard.edu/mateo), and [Adam Milton Morgan](http://people.ucsc.edu/~admmorga/Home.html) will be published by the journal [*Natural Language and Linguistic Theory*](http://link.springer.com/journal/11049).

> Clemens LE, Coon J, Mateo Pedro P, Morgan AM, Polinsky M, Tandet G, Wagers M. Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: A view from Mayan. In Press.

A draft of the paper can be downloaded [here](http://scholar.harvard.edu/mpolinsky/publications/ergativity-and-complexity-extraction-view-mayan).

## Stranahan at ESSLLI

Laine Stranahan will be presenting her work "Local vs. Global Maximize Presupposition and the Temporal Duration Parameter" at the [Workshop on Discourse Coherence, Information Structure, and Implicatures](http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_cisi.html) at the [25th European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information](http://esslli2013.de/) (ESSLLI) this Thursday in Düsseldorf, Germany.



 

 

 



 

 

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