Week of september 8, 2014

Fall 2014

Study Card Day is tomorrow (Tuesday, September 9). Completed study cards for all students are due between 9 am and 5 pm. 

Here is a list of seminars being taught this semester:

  • Silent but Meaningful: On Ellipsis
    Ling 204r Topics in Syntax | Liu | Th 1-3
  • Focus: Uniformity or Diversity?
    Ling 205r The Syntax-Semantics Interface | Charnavel | F 1-3
  • Comparative and Historical Morphology of the Greek and Latin Verb
    Ling 221r Workshop in Indo-European | Jasanoff | Th 3-5 

The Department of Linguistics Fall Reception will take place in Boylston Hall at 5:15pm on Thursday, September 18. All undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and visitors are invited. Please join us in welcoming everyone to Linguistics!

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Polinsky Lab Meeting

Wednesday, September 10 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor)

The first Polinsky Lab meeting of the semester will be this Wednesday. The meeting's agenda includes introductions and mapping out the schedule for the semester.

Harvard at AMLaP

Laine Stranahan presented her work "Effects of Working Memory Load on the Processing of Numerals and Scalar Quantifiers"  (a project with Qingqing Wu, Manizeh Khan, and Jesse Snedeker) at the 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), which took place at the University of Edinburgh, September 3-6, 2014.

Harvard at SciLAC

Dora Mihoc presented her work "The broader epistemic future" at Commitment phenomena through the study of evidential markers in Romance languages, an international conference which took place at the Institute for Language and Communication Sciences, University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Sep 4-5, 2014.

Clemens, Coon, Mateo Pedro, Morgan, Polinsky, and Tandet appear in NLLT

The paper "Ergativity and the complexity of extraction: a view from Mayan" co-authored by Polinsky Lab members Lauren Clemens, Maria Polinsky, and Gabrielle Tandet '13 and former lab members Jessica Coon, Pedro Mateo Pedro, and Adam Milton Morgan has been published in the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

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