#  Week of February 27, 2017 

 





February 27, 2017

 

 

### Department Talk

Julie Legate (University of Pennsylvania)  
["On Passives"](/event/department-talks-julie-legate-university-pennsylvania) ([Abstract](/file_url/412))  
Friday, March 3 | 4:00pm | Location: Boylston Hall 105   
There will a be reception following the talk.

### Upcoming Department Talks, Spring 2017

Lisa Cheng (Leiden University, Holland)  
March 10 @ 4:00  
Title: ["Focusing (on) Wh-subjects"](/event/department-talk-lisa-cheng-leiden-university-holland) - Location: Boylston Hall 105

Jonathan Bobaljik (University of Connecticut)  
March 24 @ 4:00  
Title and location tba

Hamida Demirdache (University of Nantes, France)  
March 31 @ 4:00  
Title and location tba

Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut)  
April 7 @ 4:00  
Title and location tba

###  LingedIn

**Alex Klapheke**  
NPI Intervention Across Languages: Experimental Data  
Friday, March 3 | 12pm | Boylston 303

### Harvard at GLOW in Asia XI

The following talks featured Harvard presenters at GLOW in Asia XI that took place at The National University of Singapore, February 20-22.

- **[Dorothy Ahn](http://scholar.harvard.edu/dorothyahn)**: Semantics of definite descriptions: A micro-typology
- **[Isabelle Charnavel](https://sites.google.com/site/isabellecharnavel/)** and **[Yujing Huang](/people/yujing-huang)**: Re-examining the binding conditions of Mandarin anaphor *ziji* in the light of inanimacy

### Harvard at CSLI Workshop

**[Laine Stranahan](/people/elaine-laine-stranahan)** presented her work titled "Contrastive Inference: Speaker Modeling or Implicit Labeling?" (joint work with Dylan Hardenbough and Jesse Snedeker) at the CSLI workshop that took place at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, CA, February 18.



 

 

 



 

 

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