#  Week of September 9, 2013 

 





September 06, 2013

 

 

## Linguists celebrate Chierchia's 60th Birthday

On Friday, September 6, linguists from various parts of the country gathered in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall to celebrate the 60th birthday of Professor **[Gennaro Chierchia](/people/gennaro-chierchia)**. The surprise event, hosted by **[Ivano Caponigro](http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~ivano/index.htm)**, **[Carlo Cecchetto](http://192.167.124.135/persone/cecchetto.htm)**, and I. Orvieto, celebrated Chierchia's recent publication of *Logic in Grammar: Polarity, Free Choice, and Intervention* in addition to his birthday, which is this Tuesday, September 10. Another highlight of the event was the presentation of a secret festschrift edited by Ivano Caponigro and Carlo Cecchetto. Several book contributors attended the event including his former adviser **[Barbara Partee](http://people.umass.edu/partee/)**. The Department would like to thank everyone who made this special event possible. Congratulations, and Happy Birthday, Gennaro!

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(Photos by Dorothy Ahn)

### Harvard at Sinn und Bedeutung 18

On Thursday, September 12, Professor Gennaro Chierchia will deliver his invited talk, titled *"Questions about questions and free relatives"* at the 18th annual meeting of [Sinn und Bedeutung](https://sites.google.com/site/sub18bc/home), September 11-13, at the University of Basque Country. In addition, the following talks and posters will feature Harvard presenters:

- Andreea Nicolae: "[Encoding strength of exhaustivity within the question nucleus](https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9lZn0JumEoySXY4eUZYUk5qajg/edit?usp=sharing)"
- Hazel Pearson and Jeruen Dery: "[Dreaming de re and de se: experimental evidence for the Oneiric Reference Constraint](https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9lZn0JumEoyUURTeVBoZHdIZ0k/edit?usp=sharing)"
- Florian Schwarz and Jacopo Romoli: "[An experimental comparison between presuppositions and indirect scalar implicatures](https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9lZn0JumEoyVHZEc0Zpb3ZPelk/edit?usp=sharing)"
- Gregory Scontras, Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai, Kenneth Mai and Maria Polinsky: "[Chinese Scope: an experimental investigation](https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9lZn0JumEoyYWRIRGhaVmlZOG8/edit?usp=sharing)"
- Elaine Stranahan: "[Local vs. global Maximize Presupposition and the temporal duration parameter](https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9lZn0JumEoyLUc1OXA5a2tzNzg/edit?usp=sharing)"
- Yimei Xiang: "[Neg-raising: focus and implicatures](https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9lZn0JumEoyTUFEVlBRMEN2aEE/edit?usp=sharing)"

## Polinsky Lab Meeting Resumes This Wednesday

The first lab meeting of the semester will be on Wednesday, September 11 at 5:15PM in Boylston 303. Please note the change of location from last year. The meeting's agenda includes introductions and mapping out the schedule for the upcoming weeks.



 

 

 



 

 

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