#  Week of February 4, 2013 

 





February 03, 2013

 

 

### Polinsky Lab Meeting

Dave Sawicki (Harvard University)  
[\[Title TBA\]](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=node/223)  
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](http://www.public.asu.edu/~gelderen/WCCFL.htm) at Arizona State University February 8-10:

- Na Liu (former visiting student) & [C.-T. James Huang](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ctjhuang/): The Syntax of Passives under the Smuggling Approach
- [Lauren Eby Clemens](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lreby/website/Home.html), [Jessica Coon](http://people.linguistics.mcgill.ca/~jessica/Welcome.html) (former Polinsky Lab member), [Adam Morgan](http://people.ucsc.edu/~admmorga/Home.html) (former Polinsky Lab member), [Pedro Mateo Pedro](http://scholar.harvard.edu/mateo/pages/welcome-1) (former Polinsky Lab member), [Maria Polinsky](http://scholar.harvard.edu/mpolinsky), Gabrielle Tandet (concentrator) & [Matt Wagers](http://people.ucsc.edu/~mwagers/): Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: A view from Mayan
- [Bridget Samuels](http://www.bridgetsamuels.com/index.html) (alumna): A Tale of 2(nd position) Clitics
- [Nina Radkevich](http://scholar.harvard.edu/radkevich/) (Polinsky Lab member) and [Lauren Eby Clemens](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lreby/website/Home.html): Person hierarchy and structure dependence in Lak agreement
- [Peter Jenks](http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~jenks/home.html) (alumnus) and [Shizhe Huang](http://www.haverford.edu/faculty/shuang): The functional architecture of nominal modifiers in Chinese and Thai
- [Peter Jenks](http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~jenks/home.html) (alumnus): Evidence for a unified theory of movement: Moro DPs
- [Shin Fukuda](http://www2.hawaii.edu/~fukudash/) and [Maria Polinsky](http://scholar.harvard.edu/mpolinsky): 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](http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/bls/program.html) of the [Berkeley Linguistics Society](http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/bls/) 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](http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~jenks/home.html) (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](http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol19/iss1/) 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](http://cmluyiliu.wordpress.com/): Mandarin Parasitic Gaps
- Yimei Xiang: Neg-raising and Aspect: Evidence from Mandarin



 

 

 



 

 

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