Week of February 4, 2013
Polinsky Lab Meeting
Dave Sawicki (Harvard University)
[Title TBA]
Wednesday, February 6 | 5:15-7pm | Polinsky Lab Room 420 (Conference Room)
Harvard at WCCFL
Eleven current and former Harvard scholars will be presenting their work at this year's West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics at Arizona State University February 8-10:
- Na Liu (former visiting student) & C.-T. James Huang: The Syntax of Passives under the Smuggling Approach
- Lauren Eby Clemens, Jessica Coon (former Polinsky Lab member), Adam Morgan (former Polinsky Lab member), Pedro Mateo Pedro (former Polinsky Lab member), Maria Polinsky, Gabrielle Tandet (concentrator) & Matt Wagers: Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: A view from Mayan
- Bridget Samuels (alumna): A Tale of 2(nd position) Clitics
- Nina Radkevich (Polinsky Lab member) and Lauren Eby Clemens: Person hierarchy and structure dependence in Lak agreement
- Peter Jenks (alumnus) and Shizhe Huang: The functional architecture of nominal modifiers in Chinese and Thai
- Peter Jenks (alumnus): Evidence for a unified theory of movement: Moro DPs
- Shin Fukuda and Maria Polinsky: On Licensing of Floating Indeterminate Pronouns in Japanese
Harvard at BLS
One current and one former Harvard scholar will be presenting at the 39th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society in Berkeley, CA, February 16-17:
- David Sawicki (concentrator): Inside a Wug: Non-linear interactions of multiple marked features and non-uniform recall of phonological material
- Peter Jenks (alumnus): Quantifier Float and Scope in Thai
Harvard in Penn Working Papers in Linguistics
The work of three Harvard linguists will be featured in Volume 19.1 of the University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (Proceedings of the 36th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium):
- Caitlin Keenan: ‘A Pleasant Three Days in Philadelphia’: Arguments for a Pseudopartitive Analysis
- Chi-Ming Louis Liu: Mandarin Parasitic Gaps
- Yimei Xiang: Neg-raising and Aspect: Evidence from Mandarin