#  Week of March 23, 2015 

 





March 22, 2015

 

 

### Job Talk: Salvador Mascarenhas

**[Salvador Mascarenhas](https://files.nyu.edu/sdm330/public/)** (University of Oxford, St. Catherine’s College)  
[Illusory Inferences: Reasoning and Interpretation](/event/salvador-mascarenhas)  
Monday, March 23 | 4pm-6pm | Boylston Hall Fong Auditorium  
Reception in the Department of Linguistics immediately following the talk.

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Polinsky Lab Meeting 

**Ekaterina Kravtchenko**  
[Predictability affects syntactic production: Evidence from subject omission in Russian](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=node/416)  
Wednesday, March 25 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor)

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Linguistics Circle Workshop 

**[Jon Gajewski](http://gajewski.uconn.edu/)** (University of Connecticut)  
[The representation of degree in American Sign Language](/event/circles-jon-gajewski)  
Friday, March 27 | 4:30pm | Sever Hall 208

### Harvard at PLC39

The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the 39th Annual [Penn Linguistics Conference](http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc39/) that took place at the University of Pennsylvania, March 20-22, 2015.

- **Dorothy Ahn**: A New Account for too and either
- **Laurence B-Violette**: Obviating the Disjoint Reference Effect in French
- **Jenny Lee**: Root Alternation and Verbal Plurality in Ranmo[  ](http://nels45.mit.edu/abstracts/Lee.pdf)
- **Yimei Xiang**: Multiple Exhaustifications and Multiple Scalar Items

### Department Events: Spring 2015

- **[Spring Open House  ](/event/linguistics-department-spring-open-house)**April 9 | 5:00-7:00pm | Boylston 3rd floor
- **[ECO5  ](https://eastcoastfive.wordpress.com/)**April 11
- **[Senior Thesis Colloquium  ](/event/senior-thesis-colloquium-0)**April 30
- **[Spring Reception  ](/event/spring-reception)**April 30 | 5:00-7:00pm | Boylston 3rd floor



 

 

 



 

 

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