Week of May 2, 2016

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

Kazuhiko Yoshida (Kyoto University)
Hittite aušta and maušta
Friday, May 2 | 5pm | Boylston 335

Harvard at WCCFL34

The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters at the 34th Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics that took place at the University of Utah, April 29 - May 1.

• Dorothy Ahn & Isabelle Charnavel: Perspective on Korean anaphors: inanimate cachey vs. animate cakicasin
• Lena Borise: Low phrase accent as the prosodic realization of focus in Georgian
• Laura Grestenberger (PhD 2014): Voice mismatches in non-finite contexts: the morphosyntax of deponent participles
• Cheng-Yu (Edwin) Tsai: Preverbial number phrases in Mandarin and the scalar reasoning of jiu

Thesis Defense

Yimei Xiang
Interpreting questions with non-exhaustive answers
Thursday, May 5 | 2pm-5pm | Boylston 335

Jenny Lee
Split intransitivity in Ranmo
Friday, May 6 | 12:30pm-3:30pm | Boylston 335