#  Week of November 9, 2015 

 





November 08, 2015

 

 

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GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

**[José Luis García Ramón](http://ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/11463.html?&L=1)** (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

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Language Universals Workshop 

**[Colin Wilson](http://cogsci.jhu.edu/people/wilson.html)** (Johns Hopkins)  
[An articulatory-phonetic account of vowel epenthesis into nonnative consonant clusters](/event/colin-wilson-johns-hopkins)  
Friday, November 13 | 4:00pm | Boylston 335

### SNEWS @ Harvard

This year's [Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS)](https://snewsling.wordpress.com/home/), 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](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BbQXLnG7lmm2yc6fGFQClILfCmpveCB14q0J20n0tvQ/viewform).

**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 – 17:00** **Break**

**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

**18:00 – 18:15** **Business meeting**

**19:00** **Party**



 

 

 



 

 

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