# Week of January 17, 2017 January 17, 2017 ### Spring Semester 2017 Classes for the Spring semester begin on Monday, January 23, 2017. The deadline for course registration is Friday, January 27, 2017. Welcome back! ### Harvard at LSA 2017 The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters at the 2017 annual meeting of the LSA that took place in Austin, Texas, January 5-8. - **[Gennaro Chierchia](http://scholar.harvard.edu/chierchia/home)** delievered the invited plenary address. - ****[Zuzanna Fuchs](/people/zuzanna-fuchs):**** Movement vs base-generation in Georgian split DPs - **[Yujing Huang](/people/yujing-huang)**: Evaluating unaccusative diagnostics: a large-scale study - Carina Kauf (former Visiting Scholar) and **[Kathryn Davidson](https://sites.google.com/site/kathryndavidson/):** Introducing demonstration complements in spoken/written languages - **[Greg Scontras](http://socsci.uci.edu/~gscontra/)** (PhD 2014), **[Kathryn Davidson](https://sites.google.com/site/kathryndavidson/)**, **[Amy Rose Deal](http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~ardeal/)**, Sarah E. Murray (Cornell): Who has more? The influence of linguistic form on quantity judgments - **[Kathryn Davidson](https://sites.google.com/site/kathryndavidson/)**, **[Annemarie Kocab](http://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/annemarie-kocab)** (Harvard Psychology), Andrea D Sims (OSU), Laura Wagner (OSU). Telicity Encoding in American Sign Language: Testing the Event Visibility Hypothesis. ### Jenneke at Leipzig **[Jenneke van der Wal](/people/jenneke-van-der-wal)** presented her work titled "The AWSOM and RANDOM in Bantu object marking" at the IGRA Colloquium at The University of Leipzig on January 11. ### Jenneke's Edited Book Released **[Jenneke van der Wal](/people/jenneke-van-der-wal)'s** edited book "[The Conjoint/Disjoint Alternation in Bantu](https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/475487?rskey=LNTqXQ)" has just been released by De Gruyter Mouton. Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)