HARVARD LINGUISTICS THEORY GROUP

FALL 2008 SCHEDULE

October 14th 6:00pm Andrew Nevins, Harvard University, Title: "Unpacking Mordvin Portmanteaus"

November 18th 6:00pm Ken Wexler, MIT, Title: "Clefts, Inverse Copulas, and Passives: Understanding Their Delayed Acquisition as Phasal Difficulties"

November 25th 6:00pm Maria Polinsky, Harvard University, Title: "Covert A-movement"

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December 2nd 6:00pm Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT, Title: "Why Agree? Why Move? Unifying Agreement-based and Discourse-Configurational Languages"

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December 9th 6:00pm Kensuke Takita, Nanzan University/University of Connecticut, Title: "Concealed Argument Ellipsis in Japanese Right Dislocation"

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May 8th 2pm Boylston Hall 303 Nomi Erteschik-Shir, Ben Gurion University, visiting at Harvard University,

Title: "Canonical Information Structures"

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All the talks are at Boylston Hall 303 and start at 6 p.m. unless noted otherwise.