#  Week of september 8, 2014 

 





September 07, 2014

 

 

### Fall 2014

[Study Card Day](http://www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu/event/study-card-day-any-card-filed-after-day-requires-instructors-signature-every-course-listed) 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](/file_url/263) 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](/people/elaine-laine-stranahan) presented her work ["Effects of Working Memory Load on the Processing of Numerals and Scalar Quantifiers"](http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/AMLaP/posters.htm) (a project with Qingqing Wu, Manizeh Khan, and Jesse Snedeker) at the 20th [Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing](http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/AMLaP/) (AMLaP), which took place at the University of Edinburgh, September 3-6, 2014.

### Harvard at SciLAC

[Dora Mihoc](/people/theodora-dora-mihoc) presented her work "The broader epistemic future" at [Commitment phenomena through the study of evidential markers in Romance languages](http://www2.unine.ch/files/content/sites/lettres/files/accueil/Neuchatel_conference_program.pdf), 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"](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11049-014-9260-x?sa_campaign=email/event/articleAuthor/onlineFirst#) co-authored by Polinsky Lab members [Lauren Clemens](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lreby/), [Maria Polinsky](http://scholar.harvard.edu/mpolinsky), and Gabrielle Tandet '13 and former lab members [Jessica Coon](http://people.linguistics.mcgill.ca/~jessica/Welcome.html), Pedro Mateo Pedro, and Adam Milton Morgan has been published in the journal [*Natural Language and Linguistic Theory*](http://link.springer.com/journal/11049).



 

 

 



 

 

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