#  Week of May 9, 2016 

 





May 09, 2016

 

 

### Spring semester ends

The Spring semester final examinations will end on [Saturday, May 14](http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/academic_calendar/important-dates.php). This is the last Spell-Out post of the semester, and the weekly postings will resume in the fall.

### LFRG at MIT

****[Zuzanna Fuchs](/people/zuzanna-fuchs)****  
Topichood and split DPs in Georgian: movement or base-generation?  
Wednesday, May 11 | 1-2pm | 32-D831

###    ![logo_modality2_01.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/linguistics/files/logo_modality2_01.png?itok=8HmgezAH) 

 

Meaning and Modality Lab Meeting

**[Carina Kauf](https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/carina-kauf/483688.html)**  
The Identity Crisis of ``If X were Y,...'' - Counterfactuals and Counter-Identity  
Wednesday, May 11 | 4pm | 2 Arrow St Rm 420

### Harvard at SULA 9

Visiting Associate Professor **[Roberta Pires de Oliveira](/people/roberta-pires-de-oliveira)** presented her work with **Marcelo Giovannetti** (Universidade Federal de Roraima) titled "[Bare nouns and object mass nouns in Wapichana (Aruák): Preliminary remarks](http://babel.ucsc.edu/sula9/abstracts/SULA_9_paper_2.pdf)" at the [9th Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas](http://babel.ucsc.edu/sula9/) (SULA9), which took place at the University of California, Santa Cruz, May 6-8, 2016.

### Congratulations, Dr. Xiang!

Congratulations to **[Yimei Xiang](http://scholar.harvard.edu/yxiang/home)** who has successfully defended her dissertation, "Interpreting questions with non-exhaustive answers" on Thursday, May 5, 2016.

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

 

  
**[](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ctjhuang/)**Left to right: James Huang, Gennaro Chierchia, Yimei Xiang, and Danny Fox (MIT). [Photo by Edwin Tsai]### Congratulations, Dr. Lee!

Congratulations to ****[Jenny Lee](http://syleejenny.wix.com/home)**** who has successfully defended her dissertation, "Split intransitivity in Ranmo" on Friday, May 6, 2016.

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

 

  
Left to right: Masha Polinsky, Jenny Lee, and James Huang. [Photo by Edwin Tsai]

 

 

 



 

 

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