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Week of April 2 (This week at Harvard, around town, and ECO5)

April 3, 2012

Dear Linguists,

Another busy week is in store for us. There are a lot of linguistics events happening at Harvard and around town. More information below. This Saturday, ECO5 (a graduate student workshop in syntax that rotates between 5 East Coast schools) will be held at the University of Massachusetts. Two students will represent our department at this workshop for which more information can be found here.

All the Best,

Your Bloglings

This week at Harvard...

Week of March 26

March 11, 2012

Hello Linguists,

Notice any new faces around the department recently? In the next few
weeks we will be visiting with prospective graduate students, so make
sure to introduce yourself! This is a busy week at Harvard Linguistics
so the rest of this entry will be devoted to keeping you on top of
what is going on.

All the best,
Your Bloglings,

This week at Harvard...

On Tuesday, March 27, 5:00 at the Polinsky Lab (2 Arrow St), the Mayan
Reading Group will meet to continue the discussion of existential
constructions in Mayan.

Week of February 27 (This week at Harvard)

February 27, 2012

Hello Linguists,

This week on Tuesday we will wrap up our series of job talks with Isabelle Charnavel (UCLA/ENS-Institut Jean Nicod, Paris). We are also pleased to announce the spring semester's first Linguistics Circle Colloquium, which will take place this Friday. For more information on both of these events, please see below.

All the best,

Your Bloglings

This week at Harvard... 

Week of February 6 (This week at Harvard and around town)

February 6, 2012

Hello Linguists,

We only have a couple of announcements this week, but we hope to see you at a linguistics event soon!

All the best,

Your Bloglings

This week at Harvard... 

On Tuesday, February 7, 5:30 in William James Hall 475, Lauren Eby Clemens will present "The protection of initial syllables in novel items" at Harvard's Language and Cognition Workshop.

Around town...

At MIT: On Friday, February 10, 3:30 in 32-141, David Beaver (University if Texas, Austin) will present "IT-constructions" at the MIT Linguistics Colloquium.

Week of January 30 (Johnsen in Press, Mateo Pedro wins award, Bjorkman on campus)

February 1, 2012

Hello Linguists,

We hope your semester is off to a great start! We have some exciting news and events to report, but first, a little housekeeping. Our apologies for the late post, we encountered some technical difficulties earlier in the week. Second, a number of people have requested that we allow people to subscribe to our blog. We think this is a great idea, but at this time, its unfortunately not possible. So thanks for continuing to check back! On with it then... 

Spring 2012 Begins! (Johnsen to Oslo, Pearson Job-talk, Scontras in Press)

January 23, 2012

Happy Lunar New Year Linguists!

Today marks the beginning of the Spring Semester and already there is quite a lot of activity to report.

Thank you to Li Julie Jiang for her role in the Bok Center Winter Teaching Conference.

Congratulations to Sverre Strausland Johnsen who is beginning postdoctoral work in the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at UiO: University of Oslo.

Post-Thanksgiving Post (Events at Harvard and Around Town)

November 27, 2011

Welcome Back to Campus Linguists!

Congratulations to Conor Walsh, undergraduate linguistics concentrator, who has been selected for a Mitchell Scholarship to study language planning through the Irish Language.

On the afternoon of Saturday, November 19th, we held our first Graduate Student Workshop. In case you missed it, here is a list of the talks. Please email the presenter directly if you would like a copy of the handout.

Week of November 14 (Student Workshop, Events at Harvard and Around Town)

November 14, 2011

Hello Linguists,

Congratulations to Siena Leslie, undergraduate linguistics concentrator, who has been elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Chapter at Harvard College!

Week of November 7 (Pearson in press and Events at Harvard)

November 7, 2011

It's a beautiful day in Cambridge!

Congratulations to Hazel Pearson whose paper, 'A Judge-Free Semantics for Predicates of Personal Taste,' will appear in Journal of Semantics.

Congratulations also to Jacopo Romoli, who will present "Variation of Presupposition Projection in Quantified Sentences" with Yasutada Sudo, Danny Fox and Martin Hackl (MIT) at the 18th Amsterdam Colloquium.  

We hope to see you at this week's linguistics events (more below).

Week of October 31 (Events at Harvard and Deadlines)

October 31, 2011

Happy Halloween Linguists!!

We have a lot going on this week including something a little out of the ordinary.... Tomorrow, November 1st, the Department of Linguistics (via the GSAS Workshop Language Universals and Linguistic Fieldwork) will be co-sponsoring a screening of Anne Makepeace’s “We Still Live Here,” a documentary about  the revitalization of Wampanoag  (Algonquian) of Southeast Massachusetts. More information below in This week at Harvard...