#  Week of March 30, 2015 

 





March 28, 2015

 

 

### **Advising Fortnight Kickoff Event**

**Date:** Monday, March 30  
**Time:** 5:00-7:00 p.m.  
**Location:** Annenberg Hall

Professor Polinsky and a few students will be there to tell you more about linguistics. Drop by the Linguistics table to learn more! Our Head Tutor, Professor Polinsky, and the Assistant Head Tutor will be holding office hours during the [Advising Fortnight](http://advisingfortnight.fas.harvard.edu/) in case you have additional questions.  
  
***Office Hours:***  
**Head Tutor and Director of Undergraduate Study: Dates:** Thursdays, April 2 & Tuesday, April 7  
**Time:** 1:00-2:00 p.m.  
**Location:** Boylston Hall 314**Assistant Head Tutor:**   
**Dates:** Wednesdays, April 1 & April 8  
**Time:**4:00-5:00 p.m.  
**Location:** Lounge in the Department of Linguistics, Boylston Hall third floor

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Polinsky Lab Meeting 

**Anita Peti-Stantić** (University of Zagreb/Tufts University)  
[Experimental Morphosyntax of South Slavic Languages - Gender Agreement](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=node/418)  
Wednesday, April 1 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor)

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Language Universals Workshop 

**[Ruth Kramer](http://faculty.georgetown.edu/rtk8/)** (Georgetown University)  
[The Morphosyntax of Gender and Number: Converging and Crossing](/event/universals-ruth-kramer-georgetown-university)  
Friday, April 3 | 2pm | Boylston 303

### Harvard at WCCFL 33

The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the 33rd [West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics](https://sites.google.com/site/wccflsfu/) (WCCFL 33) which was held at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Mar. 27 – 29.

- **Laurence B-Violette**: [Obviating Obviation in French Ditransitive Clauses](https://sites.google.com/site/wccflsfu/B-Violette.pdf?attredirects=0)
- **Isabelle Charnavel**: [Let You be Bound to Me (and Me to You)](https://sites.google.com/site/wccflsfu/Charnavel.pdf?attredirects=0)
- **Bradley Larson** (Harvard) and **Alexis Wellwood** (Northwestern): [A long-distance morphosyntax and semantics for comparative clauses](https://70c54e50-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/wccflsfu/LarsonWellwood.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7cqRzwrIseDhWDaN0tE_GNx8v72fvYzxlN3i-pHZUc-nuAPFHH0QJtISY_Gz9MIGa4vfTzjKXU-HO5rIdhF4cTYelNTRAyQcRpymCf8vu1pQ8AX0YFN43BAOjdtgAsEOqXjmubgbtCOnsAEiXX-MgCM0P4kvOz2n5cpIpjTvh33DJN_Joiwq4QhUH-D9RImzE0SYbCqyq3nCnrtfJYmUttS4muowRg==&attredirects=0)
- **Bradley Larson** (Harvard), **Nicholas Longenbaugh** (MIT) and **Maria Polinsky** (Harvard): [Subject/Object Parity in Niuean and the Labeling Algorithm](https://sites.google.com/site/wccflsfu/LarsonLongenbaughPolinsky.pdf?attredirects=0)
- **Jenny Lee**: [Verbal morphological syncretism in an ergative language](https://sites.google.com/site/wccflsfu/Lee.pdf?attredirects=0)

### 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 29 | 5:00-7:00pm | Boylston 3rd floor



 

 

 



 

 

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