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October 2014

Week of October 27, 2014

Harvard at WeCIEC 2014

Gašper Beguš presented his work "Independent Svarita in External Sandhi" at the 26th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, which took place at the University of California, Los Angeles, Oct 24-25.

NELS at MIT this week 

The 45th annual meeting of the North East Linguistic Society will be held at the MIT on October 31 - November 2, 2014. Invited speakers are:

Please visit the conference website for more information.

Ling-Lunch 10/30 - Andreea Nicolae 

Speaker: Andreea Nicolae (Harvard PhD 2013; ZAS Berlin)
Title: Positive polarity and strength of scalar implicatures
Date/Time:Thursday, October 30, 12:30-1:45pm
Location: 32-D461

Linguistics Department Fall Open House

The Linguistics Department Fall Open House for prospective concentrators will take place on Tuesday, November 4 from 5:15 to 7:00pm (Please note the change of date). Please check the poster for more information.

Assistant Professor Position Announcement

For more information, please visit the academic positions website.

Week of October 20, 2014

Polinsky Lab Meeting 

Iris Berent (Northeastern University)
The phonological mind
Wednesday, October 22 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)

Linguistics Circle Workshop 

Howard Lasnik (University of Maryland)
Family of Questions: Nuclear or Extended?
Friday, October 24 | 4:30pm | Boylston 104

HGSL Photo Contest

HGSL (Harvard Graduate Students in Linguistics, the graduate student organization of the department) is delighted to announce a photo contest in the Department of Linguistics. Open to undergraduate concentrators, graduate students, visitors, faculty and staff of the Department of Linguistics, this year's contest features the theme of "Summer 2014: Where did the summer take you?". Two winning pictures will be printed as posters, framed and displayed in the department. For detailed submission instructions, please see the Facebook announcement.

Linguistics Department Fall Open House

The Linguistics Department Fall Open House for prospective concentrators will take place on Tuesday, November 4 from 5:15 to 7:00pm (Please note the change of date). Please check the poster for more information.

Assistant Professor Position Announcement

For more information, please visit the academic positions website.

Week of October 13, 2014

Language and Cognition

Aydoğan Yanılmaz (Stony Brook University)
On-line processing of grammatical illusions: Evidence from Turkish NPI licensing
Tuesday, October 14 | 5:00pm | William James Hall 1050

Polinsky Lab Meeting 

Reading Group 2: Discussion led by Lena Borise and Dora Mihoc
Wednesday, October 15 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)

Linguistics Department Fall Open House

The Linguistics Department Fall Open House for prospective concentrators will take place on Thursday, October 30 from 5:15 to 7:00pm. Please check the poster for more information.

Assistant Professor Position Announcement

For more information, please visit the academic positions website.

Week of October 6, 2014

Polinsky Lab Meeting 

Byron Ahn (Boston University)
Understanding Variation in the Reflexes of Reflexivity
Wednesday, October 8 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)

Language Universals Workshop 

Dan Lassiter (Stanford University)
Epistemic adjectives: Lexical semantics meets the psychology of reasoning
Thursday, Oct. 9 | 5:30pm | Boylston 335

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

Angelo Mercado (Grinnell College)
Complicating the Reconstruction of the Indo-European Metrical System
Friday, October 10 | 4:00pm | Boylston 104

Linguistics Department Fall Open House

The Linguistics Department Fall Open House for prospective concentrators will take place on Thursday, October 30 from 5:15 to 7:00pm. Please check the poster for more information.

Assistant Professor Position Announcement

For more information, please visit the academic positions website.