Harvard Linguistics Circle

Title: Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction and The Proto-Indo-European-Euskara Hypothesis Abstract

Title: A Parameter Hierarchy for Passives (Joint work with Michelle Sheehan)

(Non)-Exhaustivity of "Only"

Experimental Comparisons of Presuppositions and Implicatures Abstract: A core tenet in the theoretical study of linguistic meaning is that the overall meaning conveyed by an utterance is a conglomerate of different types of inferences, such as entailments...

The representation of degree in American Sign Language

At the right edge: coda segmentism and coda weight Abstract: It is widely assumed that the sonority of segments plays an important role in the overall profiling of the syllable, as well as in the organization of its subparts. In this talk, I will address...

Family of Questions: Nuclear or Extended?

Parameters of Structural Case Abstract: Although there is decent evidence that some structural cases are assigned by agreement with a designated functional head (Chomsky 2000, 2001), there is good reason to think that not all are. In this talk, I explore...

Steps to the Physics of Language Abstract: The study of complex systems seems to affirm the Thompson-Turing claim that “some physical processes are of very general occurrence.” Notably, those involving Fibonacci-based “golden” forms, ubiquitous in nature...