Saturday, November 17
1:30-5:00pm
Boylston 303

The Harvard Linguistics Student Workshop is an opportunity for graduate students in the Harvard Department of Linguistics to share their work with members of the department. All members are invited to attend, but student-student interaction is the primary goal. Research in all stages of development will be presented, and talks will range from formal presentations to casual discussions of work-in-progress.


Schedule

1:30-1:50
Coffee & Welcome

1:50-2:10
Pooja Paul
Evidence in favor of a Neo-Davidsonian analysis of Malayalam clause structure 
(10 + 10 mins discussion)

2:10-2:40
Caitlin Keenan
Plural uses of the indefinite singular article in Middle French and Middle English 
(20 + 10 mins discussion)


~ 15 minute break ~


2:55-3:20
Chrissy Zlogar and Laine Stranahan
Lifetime inference and the markedness of tense 
(15 + 10 mins discussion)

3:20-3:50

Edwin Tsai
A cleft explanation for scope rigidity in Mandarin 
(20 + 10 mins discussion)


~ 15 minute break ~


4:05-4:35
Louis Liu
A non-unified analysis for Mandarin comparative constructions
(20 + 10 mins discussion)

4:35-5:00
Lauren Eby Clemens
What can prosody tell us about syntactic derivations? 
(15 + 10 mins discussion)




Dinner
5:30pm