#  Week of December 3 

 





December 03, 2018

 

 

###  Reading Period Begins Thursday

 The last day of the Fall semester is [this Wednesday](https://handbook.fas.harvard.edu/book/calendar-academic-year), December 5. The Fall reading period begins on Thursday, December 6, and runs through Tuesday, December 11.


###  Meaning and Modality Lab Meeting

 [Emma Nguyen](https://emmanguyenling.wordpress.com/) (UConn)

 "Why "to be loved" comes later: viewing passive acquisition through the lens of lexical semantic features"

 Friday, December 7 | 12:00-1:30pm | 2 Arrow Street, Room 420

###  GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

 [Alan J. Nussbaum](https://classics.cornell.edu/alan-jeffrey-nussbaum) (Cornell University)

 "The Genitival Gerundival"

 Friday, December 7 | 5pm | Boylston 335

###  Harvard at SNEWS

 [Josh Martin](/people/joshua-martin) and [Ian Kirby](/people/ian-kirby) gave talks at the Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS), hosted at UMass Amherst.

- Josh Martin "Slightly lower-*ish:* pragmatic scale shifts in degree modification"
- Ian Kirby "A sketch of the historical uses of *whether, either*, and *neither*"



 

 

 



 

 

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