#  Week of December 3, 2012 

 





December 02, 2012

 

 

### Reading Period Begins Wednesday

The Fall semester is winding down as the [final day of classes](http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/event/last-day-fall-classes) (Tuesday, December 4) approaches. The Fall Reading Period [will begin Wednesday, December 5](http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/event/reading-period-begins), and lasts [through Wednesday, December 12](http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/event/reading-period-ends).

### Polinsky Lab Meeting

[**Iris Berent**](http://www.northeastern.edu/psychology/people/faculty/iris-berent/), et al. (Northeastern University)  
[Joint meeting](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=node/204) with the [Phonology and Reading Laboratory](http://www.northeastern.edu/berentlab/) research group[](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=node/204)  
Friday, December 7 | 11am-2pm | Polinsky Lab Room 420 (Conference Room)

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 Harvard at the LSA 2013 Annual Meeting

Harvard will be well-represented at this year's [meeting](http://www.linguisticsociety.org/meetings-institutes/annual-meetings/2013) of the Linguistic Society of America, with ten department-members presenting talks or posters:

- [Lauren Eby Clemens](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lreby/Home.html), [Gregory Scontras](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~scontras/Gregory_Scontras.html), & [Maria Polinsky](http://scholar.harvard.edu/mpolinsky). Resumptive pronouns in English: Speaker oriented reference tracking
- [Annie Gagliardi](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~gagliardi/), [Alexis Wellwood](http://ling.umd.edu/people/person/alexis-wellwood/) (University of Maryland), & [Jeffrey Lidz](http://ling.umd.edu/~jlidz/) (University of Maryland). Modeling meaning choice for novel adjectives using Bayesian learning
- [Laura Grestenberger](http://scholar.harvard.edu/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](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ctjhuang/) & [Barry C.-Y. Yang](http://web.nuu.edu.tw/~barryyang/) (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](http://scholar.harvard.edu/kplaster/). Ossetic footprints: Sequential voicing in Ossetic
- [Kevin Ryan](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kevinryan/): Gradient onset weight effects in stress and meter
- [Kazuko Yatsushiro](http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarbeiter_yatsushiro.html) (Harvard University/Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), [Uli Sauerland](http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarbeiter_sauerland.html) (Harvard University/Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft). Remind-Me readings: Evidence for question act decomposition.
- [Gregory Scontras](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~scontras/Gregory_Scontras.html), [Peter Graff](http://web.mit.edu/graff/www/) (MIT), Tami Forrester (MIT), & [Noah Goodman](http://www.stanford.edu/~ngoodman/) (Stanford). Context sensitivity in collective predication
- [Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai](http://scholar.harvard.edu/edwintsai/). Generic *dou* in Chinese: A cleft analysis

### MIT Colloquium    ![mit_logo.gif](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/mit_logo_2.gif?itok=egYVBP9M) 

 



[**Edith Aldridge**](http://faculty.washington.edu/eca1/index.shtml) (University of Washington)  
*[Two Types of Ergativity and Where they Might Come from](http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/events/colloquia/)*  
Friday, December 7 | 3:30-5pm | [32-141](http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/32-141.html)



 

 

 



 

 

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