Week of December 3, 2012
Reading Period Begins Wednesday
The Fall semester is winding down as the final day of classes (Tuesday, December 4) approaches. The Fall Reading Period will begin Wednesday, December 5, and lasts through Wednesday, December 12.
Polinsky Lab Meeting
Iris Berent, et al. (Northeastern University)
Joint meeting with the Phonology and Reading Laboratory research group
Friday, December 7 | 11am-2pm | Polinsky Lab Room 420 (Conference Room)
Harvard at the LSA 2013 Annual Meeting
Harvard will be well-represented at this year's meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, with ten department-members presenting talks or posters:
- Lauren Eby Clemens, Gregory Scontras, & Maria Polinsky. Resumptive pronouns in English: Speaker oriented reference tracking
- Annie Gagliardi, Alexis Wellwood (University of Maryland), & Jeffrey Lidz (University of Maryland). Modeling meaning choice for novel adjectives using Bayesian learning
- Laura Grestenberger.
- Middle voice vs. reflexive pronouns: Evidence from Rigvedic Sanskrit
- The syntax of plural marking in German and English pseudo-partitives
- C.-T. James Huang & Barry C.-Y. Yang (National United University): Topic drop and MCP
- Jenny Lee. The temporal interpretation of the -ko construction in Korean: Toward an adjunction analysis of clausal "coordination"
- Keith Plaster. Ossetic footprints: Sequential voicing in Ossetic
- Kevin Ryan: Gradient onset weight effects in stress and meter
- Kazuko Yatsushiro (Harvard University/Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), Uli Sauerland (Harvard University/Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft). Remind-Me readings: Evidence for question act decomposition.
- Gregory Scontras, Peter Graff (MIT), Tami Forrester (MIT), & Noah Goodman (Stanford). Context sensitivity in collective predication
- Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai. Generic dou in Chinese: A cleft analysis
MIT Colloquium
Edith Aldridge (University of Washington)
Two Types of Ergativity and Where they Might Come from
Friday, December 7 | 3:30-5pm | 32-141