Week of December 16, 2013 Happy Holidays! A photo from the graduate students' Holiday party last year. Plaster and Polinsky's new publication Keith Plaster, Professor Maria Polinsky and Boris Harizanov (UCSC) have published their new paper Noun classes grow on trees: Noun classification in the North-East Caucasus in Language Typology and Historical Contingency edited by Balthasar Bickel, Lenore A. Grenoble, David A. Peterson and Alan Timberlake. Spring 2014 Courses Class Instructor Day & Time Location Ling 101: Science of Language I. Charnavel M/W 11–12 Boylston 105 Ling 106: Knowledge of Meaning A. Nicolae T/Th 11–12 Boylston 203 Ling 118: Historical & Comparative Linguistics I. Charnavel M 3–5 Boylston 303 Ling 176: History & Prehistory of Japanese Language W. Jacobsen M 3–5 NW Labs B105 Ling 185r: Issues in Austronesian Linguistics M. Polinsky M 1–3 Boylston 303 Ling 204r: Topics in Syntax B. Larson T 11–1 Boylston 303 Ling 205r: Syntax-Semantics Interface A. Nicolae Th 3–5 Boylston 105 Ling 212: Syntactic Theory II M. Polinsky Th 1–3 Boylston 303 Ling 215: Phonological Theory II K. Ryan T 1–3 Boylston 303 Ling 216: Semantic Theory II G. Chierchia W 1–3 Boylston 303 Ling 221ar: Workshop in Indo-European J. Rau Th 3–5 Boylston 303 Ling 241r: Practicum in Linguistics K. Ryan W 3–5 Boylston 303 Freshman Seminar 30i: Noam Chomsky and the Science of Linguistics B. Larson Th 2–5 FSP Rm 21 Psy 1605: Psychology of Language G. Chierchia &J. Snedeker T/Th 1–2:30 WJH B1