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Week of January 24

Check Canvas for Possible Remote/Hybrid Course Formats

We are asking that all students please check in Canvas in advance of the start of the Spring term to see whether your courses will be offered temporarily in remote or hybrid formats. Instructors will be posting any such updates in Canvas as soon as their plans are determined.

 

Syntax talks

Tanya Bondarenko (MIT)

Title TBA

Wednesday, January 26 | 9:00-10:30 am | see email for Zoom link

 

Laura Kalin (Princeton)

Title TBA

Friday, January 28 | 12:30-2:00 pm | see email for Zoom link

 

Welcome visitors!

Please join me in welcoming the following visitors to our department!  Zhuo Chen (City University of New York), Xin Cui (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), and Roberta Pires de Oliveira (Dederal University of Santa Catarina, Florianapolis, Brazil).  Also, welcome back to Haoyue Hu (Tsinghua University, Beijing), and Xiaoli Wang (Renmin University of China, Beijing).

 

Harvard at LSA

The following Harvard linguistics members had talks or posters at the LSA 2022 Annual Meeting, held on January 6-9 in Washington DC (hybrid online).

  • Tess Monks and Kathryn Davidson: "Demonstrative Shift and Proximal Markedness" (poster)
  • Ian Kirby: "Tuvan -daa in Quantificational Noun Phrases: Existential or Universal?" (talk)
  • Giuseppe Ricciardi and Josh Martin: "Accounting for variability in the truth-evaluation of bare epistemic possibility statements" (talk)
  • Kathryn Davidson: "Depictive versus patterned iconicity and dual semantic representations" (talk)
  • Deniz Satik: "A truncation theory of finiteness" (poster)
  • Jack Rabinovitch: "Narrow Scoping Content Question Items in Shifty Contexts: A Case of Surprising Non-Quotation in Uyghur" (talk)
  • Luke Adamson: "Gender on a noun cannot be licensed through agreement: On gender and scope in German" (talk)
  • Josh Martin: "Privatives across phases: disambiguating the source of adnominal modification" (talk)
  • Shannon Bryant: "Location, Location, Location: Anaphora selection in English locative prepositional phrases" (talk)

 

 

Liu published in Annual Review of Linguistics

Yingtong Liu's article titled "Structural, Functional, and Processing Perspectives on Linguistic Island Effects" was recently published in the Annual Review of Linguistics.

 

 

Adamson at Ben Gurion University

Luke Adamson gave an invited talk at Ben Gurion University on January 11 (presented virtually) titled "Representing Animacy and Markedness in Grammatical Gender Representation: On Coordination Resolution and Feature Interpretability in Greek".  This is joint work with Elena Anagnostopoulou (University of Crete).

 

Satik at Syntax & Semantic Circle (UC Berkeley)

Deniz Satik gave an invited talk titled "The infinitive size generalization" at the Syntax & Semantic Circle at UC Berkeley on January 21.