#  Week of September 22, 2014 

 





September 20, 2014

 

 

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Polinsky Lab Meeting 

**[Brad Larson](http://ling.umd.edu/~bradl/About_Me.html)** (Harvard University)  
*Coordinated Wh-Questions*  
Wednesday, September 24 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)

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GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop:

**Alexander Forte** and **Caley Smith** (Harvard University)  
*Stylistics and the Question of Authorship in Early Poetry*  
Friday, September 26 | 4:30pm | Boylston 103

### Language Universals Workshop Fall 2014

Oct 9 - **[Dan Lassiter](http://web.stanford.edu/~danlass/)** (Stanford)  
Nov 10: **[Larry Hyman](http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/person/19)** (Berkeley)

### Harvard at Sinn und Bedeutung 19

Two students represented Harvard at the 19th [Sinn und Bedeutung](http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/program/473131.html) (SuB19) that took place at the Georg August University at Göttingen, Germany, September 15-17:

- Dorothy Ahn: 'The semantics of additive *either*'
- Yimei Xiang: 'A Grammatical View of Exhaustification with Focus Movement: Evidence from NPI'

### Harvard at Questions in Discourse

**[Andreea Nicolae](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~nicolae/Andreea_Nicolae/Home.html)** (PhD 2013) and **[Yimei Xiang](http://scholar.harvard.edu/yxiang)** gave invited talks at the [Questions in Discourse](https://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/excl/qid.html) conference that took place at the University of Göttingen, Germany, September 18-20:

- Andreea Nicolae: 'Exhaustivity and NPI Licensing in Wh-Questions'
- Yimei Xiang: 'A Semantic Approach to the Distribution of Mention-Some Questions'

### Nicolae and Tsai Win Teaching Award

**[Andreea Nicolae](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~nicolae/Andreea_Nicolae/Home.html)** (PhD 2013) and **[Edwin Tsai](https://sites.google.com/site/cyedwintsai/)** have won Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the [Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning](http://bokcenter.harvard.edu/spring#distinction).

- Andreea Nicolae: Ling 205 "Syntax Semantics Interface"
- Edwin Tsai: Ling 241 "Practicum in Linguistics" (TF)

Congratulations!



 

 

 



 

 

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