Week of October 1, 2012

Philosophy of Linguistics Reading Group

Meeting #3 
Tuesday, October 2 | 4-5:30pm | Boylston 433 
All are welcome to attend.

Polinsky Lab Meeting

Edwin Tsai 
Quantification in Mandarin: Some empirical issues 
Wednesday, October 3 | 5:15pm | Polinsky Lab Conference Room 

HGSL Meeting

HGSL (Harvard Graduate Students in Linguistics) Committee Meeting 
Thursday, October 4 | 6pm | Linguistics Department Common Area 
All are welcome to attend. 

Linguistics Circle Workshop

Carlo Cecchetto (University of Milan-Bicocca) 
Identifying VP ellipsis in sign languages: the case of Italian Sign Language (LIS) 
Friday, October 5 | 5:30-7pm (Please note the unusual time) | Boylston 103 

New Polinsky Lab Web Site

Learn about current projects & follow publications, meet lab members & collaborators, and keep track of upcoming events at the Polinsky Language Sciences Lab's new Web site:

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Welcome G1s!

A warm welcome to the four members of this year's incoming class of PhD students:

  • Dorothy Ahn graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she wrote her senior thesis on complex predicates. She is currently interested in psycholinguistics and the syntax/semantics interface. Outside of linguistics, she plays the French horn and the Korean fiddle. She loves music, computer graphics, and fonts.
  • Gašper Beguš graduated from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The title of his Master's thesis was The RUKI-Rule in the Rigveda. He is interested in Historical Linguistics, Indo-European (especially Indo-Iranian and Anatolian), Phonology, and Sound Change. He loves cooking and opera.
  • Laurence B-Violette graduated from Concordia University, Montreal, QC. She is interested in Historical Linguistics (of the Indo-European family), Syntax and the Phonology-Syntax interface. She wrote her BA Honours thesis on the digamma effect in the odes of Pindar under the supervision of Mark Hale. She has other interests in arts and music, such as playing the violin.

  • Alex Klapheke graduated from Columbia University in linguistics. His BA thesis was on evidentiality. He is primarily interested in syntax and semantics, and is also interested in mathematics, logic, computer science, and philosophy. In his free time he enjoys running and biking.

New Polinsky Lab Members

The Polinsky Lab welcomes two new Post-docs:

  • Annie Gagliardi
  • Nina Radkevich

and two new Research Associates:

  • Matt Clemens
  • Miwako Hisagi

Farewell, Omer & Pedro

We bid goodbye to former Polinsky Lab members Omer Preminger and Pedro Mateo-Pedro.

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