GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop
José Luis García Ramón (Universität zu Köln) Seminar: A Linguistic Continuum in Post-Mycenaean Central Greece: Dialects in Contact and Phylogeny Monday, November 9 | 5-7pm | Boylston 237
Lecture: Greek Onomastics, Phraseology and Indo-European Poetic Language: From the Files of a New Edition of Bechtel's Die historischen Personennamen des Griechischen Tuesday, November 10 | 6-8pm | Barker 114
This year's Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS), an annual graduate student conference that brings together presenters from Harvard, MIT, Brown, Yale, UMass and UConn, will take place at Harvard on Saturday, November 21. The program of the workshop can be found below. Please RSVP by filling out this form.
Saturday, November 21, 2015 Boylston Hall 105
9:00 – 9:30 Breakfast
9:30 – 9:45 Opening Remarks
Morning Session
9:45 – 10:15 Jovana Gajić, University of Göttingen/ Harvard University Negative coordination and focus particle: Serbo-Croatian ni
10:15 – 10:45 Naomi Francis, MIT A curious pattern in future-oriented if only conditionals
10:45 – 11:15 Jyoti Iyer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Indeterminates in Tamil – scope puzzles
11:15 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:00 Aurore González, Harvard University & Sophie Moracchini, MIT Morphologically complex expressions: analyzing le moindre as superlative + even
12:00 – 12:30 Junwen Lee, Brown University The interaction between focus and the Q’anjob’al particle k’al
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session
14:00 – 14:30 Daniel Margulis, MIT Expletive negation and temporal alternatives in until-clauses
14:30 – 15:00 Teodora Mihoc, Harvard University Romanian Bare Nominals and the Nominal Mapping Parameter
15:00 – 15:15 Break
15:15 – 15:45 Paul Marty, MIT Syntactic Manner: the case of strong crossover effects
15:45 – 16:15 Sara Sanchez Alonso, Yale University Processing Spanish Copulas: the Influence of Contextual Modulation
16:15 – 16:45 Jon Ander Mendia, University of Massachusetts Amherst Complex cardinals of approximation in Spanish
16:45 – 17:00Break
17:00 – 17:30 Pooja Paul, Harvard University
One-sided numeral interpretations as modalized scalar inferences
17:30 – 18:00 Yao-ying Lai, Yale University The Structured Individual Hypothesis for Processing Aspectual Verbs
