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Week of March 18

LangCog

The next LangCog meeting of the semester will be on Tuesday, March 19th from 5:30-7:00pm! It will take place in William James Hall, Room #1550. Our speaker next week is Yuhan Zhang (Harvard), and the title and abstract of her talk can be found below. Food will be available at the meeting, and you can find the schedule for the remainder of the semester on the LangCog ...

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Week of March 4

Spring Open House 

The Linguistics Department held its Spring Open House last Monday in Boylston Hall. Many undergraduates came in to learn more about concentrating in linguistics. It would be great to see them join our department this coming Fall! 

Thanks so much to all the faculty and graduate students who came to the event to answer questions, and a special thanks to our DUS Katie and Assistant Head Tutor Ankana who made this happen! 

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Week of February 26

Fun pic of the week -- Remy! 

At the end of the last semester, Remy the Humanities cat visited (the outer edge of) Boylston Hall.

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Hope Remy brightens up your week! 

Week of February 12

Harvard Linguistics Colloquium

The second Harvard Linguistics Colloquium this semester is taking place on Friday Feb 16. Details below: 

Title: Toward a Discovery Procedure

Speaker: Charles Yang (University of Pennsylvania)

Time: Friday Feb 16 @ 12pm

Location: Emerson 305

Abstract: ...

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Week of January 29

Bondarenko at NYI

Tanya Bondarenko gave a lecture at the virtual school NYI over the winter break. The title of the lecture was Getting by without movement: cross-clausal dependencies in Georgian’. Well done, Tanya!

 

Harvard at NELS 54

The 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 54) was hosted by MIT from January 26th – 27th, 2024. A group of Harvard linguists presented marvellous work, including: 

  • Tanya...
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Week of December 4

WOLF-lab social 

The WOLF-lab is holding an end-of-semester social event on Dec 6th @ 5 PM at 90 Mt Auburn St on the 2nd floor. Pizzas and drinks will be provided. Faculty, grad students, visitors and undergraduates are welcome! Hope to see lots of you there!

 

Talk at Harvard-Yenching Institute

Xiaoyan Xiao (Xiamen University), a visiting scholar in the M&M lab, is giving a talk at the Harvard-Yenching...

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