#  Week of September 12, 2016 

 





September 11, 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](https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/7102). Please contact [Cheryl Murphy](mailto:Clmurphy@fas.harvard.edu) for more details.

###  LingedIn

**[](/people/zuzanna-fuchs)[](/people/gunnar-lund)[Dorothy Ahn](http://scholar.harvard.edu/dorothyahn)**  
The, That, and THAT: Three definites across languages  
Friday, September 16 | 12pm | Location: Boylston 303

### Harvard at AMLaP

The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the 22nd Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) conference that took place in Bilbao, Spain, in September.

- **[Laine Stranahan](/people/elaine-laine-stranahan)** with Dylan Hardenbergh and **[Jesse Snedeker](/people/jesse-snedeker)** (Harvard Psychology) - "Cognitive Load Impairs but does not Suspend Contrastive Inference" (Poster)
- **[Yujing Huang](/people/yujing-huang)** - "The Unaccusative Hypothesis revisited: on the mismatch between syntax and lexical semantics" (Talk)

### Harvard at CogSci 2016

**[Yujing Huang](/people/yujing-huang)** presented her work with **[Laine Stranahan](/people/elaine-laine-stranahan)** and ****[Jesse Snedeker](/people/jesse-snedeker)****,  titled "Reexamining the Unaccusative Hypothesis: a Visual World Paradigm study" at Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting 2016 (CogSci 2016), a meeting that took place in Philadelphia, in August.

### Harvard at SuB21

**[Dorothy Ahn](http://scholar.harvard.edu/dorothyahn)** presented her work in a poster titled "Weak, Strong, and Deictic: Three Kinds of Definites" at the 21st [Sinn und Bedeutung](https://sites.google.com/site/sinnundbedeutung21/), a workshop that took place in Edinburgh, UK, September 4-6.

### Harvard at MIT Workshop on Exhaustivity 2016

Harvard was well represented at the [MIT Workshop on Exhaustivity 2016](https://sites.google.com/site/exhaustivity2016/) that took place at MIT on September 10. The following talks featured Harvard presenters:

- **[Yimei Xiang](http://scholar.harvard.edu/yxiang/home)** (PhD 2016) - "Mandarin particle *dou*: A pre-exhaustification exhaustifier", commentated by Professor **[Gennaro Chierchia](/people/gennaro-chierchia)**.
- **[Andreea Nicolae](https://sites.google.com/site/andreeanicolae/)** (PhD 2013) - "Reducing the locality of PPI anti-licensing to an instance of PPI shielding"
- Assistant Professor **[Kathryn Davidson](https://sites.google.com/site/kathryndavidson/)** - "The contribution of sign languages toward a new unified picture of conjunction and disjunction"



 

 

 



 

 

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