Week of October 17, 2016

Senior Faculty Syntax Opening

The Department of Linguistics at Harvard University seeks to make a tenured appointment at the rank of Professor in the area of syntax. Details may be found here. Please contact Cheryl Murphy for more details.

 Linguistics Circle Workshop 

Anna Szabolcsi (NYU)
Hybrid Negative Concord, and Quantifier-Internal vs. Clausal Particles
Friday, October 21 | 3:30pm | Boylston 105

Harvard at NELS47

The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters at the 47th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS) that took place at UMass Amherst, October 14 - 16.

  • Isabelle Charnavel - "Icelandic sig: a standard anaphor, after all" (talk with Dominique Sportiche) and "Perspective on Causal Clauses" (poster)
  • Yimei Xiang - "Mentions-some readings of plural-marked questions: Experimental evidence" (talk with Alexandre Cremers)
  • Laura Grestenberger (PhD 2014) - "'Strict' adjacency and voice allomorphy in Classical Greek passives" (poster)
  • Peter Jenks (PhD 2011) - "Case and caselessness in Moro" (poster with Hannah Sande)