#  Week of October 1, 2012 

 





September 29, 2012

 

 

### Philosophy of Linguistics Reading Group

[Meeting #3](http://phil-ling.blogspot.com/2012/09/meeting-3-october-2-2012.html)   
Tuesday, October 2 | 4-5:30pm | Boylston 433   
*All are welcome to attend.*

### Polinsky Lab Meeting

**Edwin Tsai**   
*[Quantification in Mandarin: Some empirical issues](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=node/176)*   
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)*](/event/carlo-cecchetto-interdepartmental-center-cognitive-studies-language-ciscl)   
Friday, October 5 | **5:30-7pm** (Please note the unusual time) | Boylston 103

### New Polinsky Lab Web Site

[Learn about current projects & follow publications](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=research), meet [lab members & collaborators](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=people), and keep track of [upcoming events](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=events) at the Polinsky Language Sciences Lab's [new Web site](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/):

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 ](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/)[](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/)### 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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