#  Week of May 5, 2014 

 





April 28, 2014

 

 

### Senior Thesis Colloquium

Tuesday, May 6 | 2:15pm-4:30pm | Sever 102

This year's [Senior Thesis Colloquium](/event/senior-thesis-colloquium) will take place tomorrow, Tuesday May 6. The event will feature a welcoming remarks by Professor **[Maria Polinsky](http://scholar.harvard.edu/mpolinsky/home)**. More information can be found in the [program](/file_url/247).

### Department Spring Reception

Tuesday, May 6 | 5:15pm | Boylston

The Department of Linguistics will have its [Spring Reception](/file_url/236) on Tuesday, May 6th at 5:15 pm. We hope everyone is able to attend!

###    ![logo_pollab.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/linguistics/files/logo_pollab_1.png?itok=-Gwbokwb) 

 

Polinsky Lab Meeting 

**[Gregory Scontras](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~scontras/Gregory_Scontras.html)** (Harvard University)  
*[The Semantics of Morphological Number](/event/polinsky-lab-meeting-greg-scontras)*  
Wednesday, May 7 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)

### Harvard at LSRL

Assistant Professor **[Isabelle Charnavel](https://sites.google.com/site/isabellecharnavel/)** gave [two talks](http://westernlinguistics.ca/LSRL44/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/LSRL-44_Schedule_April29.pdf) at [the 44th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages](http://westernlinguistics.ca/LSRL44/?lang=en) (LSRL) which took place at Western University in London, Ontario, May 2-4. Incoming graduate student Aurore Gonzalez also presented at the symposium.

- Isabelle Charnavel: How French sheds new light on scalar particles
- Isabelle Charnavel: Clitic Coreference Restrictions and Antilogophoricity in French and Spanish (joint work with Victoria Mateu (UCLA))
- Aurore Gonzalez & Hamida Demirdache (LLING-EA 3827) Negative Coordination: ni vs. ni ... ni in French

### Congratulations, Dr. Clemens!

Congratulations to **[Lauren Eby Clemens](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lreby/)** who has successfully defended her dissertation, "Prosodic noun incorporation and verb-initial syntax."

 ![defense2.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/linguistics/files/defense2.jpg)

 

  
[Photo by Laine Stranahan] ![lauren2.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/linguistics/files/lauren2.jpg)

 

  
  
Left to right: Ryan Bennett, Kevin Ryan, Lauren Eby Clemens, Maria Polinsky, Sharon Rice, Matt Clemens, Baby Beatrice  
[Photo by Kate Pilson]Congratulations, Lauren!



 

 

 



 

 

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