October 2015

Week of October 26, 2015

Linguistics Department Fall Open House
(Photo by Edwin Tsai)

Linguistics Circle Workshop 

Juliette Blevins (CUNY)
Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction and The Proto-Indo-European-Euskara Hypothesis
Friday, October 30 | 4:30pm | Boylston 103

Harvard at WeCIEC27

The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters at the 27th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC) that took place at UCLA, October 23-24.

Week of October 19, 2015

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

Alexander Nikolaev (Boston University)
Studies in Anatolian Etymology
Monday, October 19 | 5:30pm | Boylston 103

Linguistics Department Open House

The Linguistics Department Fall Open House for prospective concentrators will take place this Wednesday, October 21, in Boylston 3rd floor lounge, at 5:15pm. Please check the poster for more information:

Harvard at NELS46

The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters at the 46th annual meeting of the North East Linguistics Society which took place at Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, October 16-18:

SNEWS 2015 @ Harvard

Saturday, November 21 | Boylston Hall 105

Harvard will be hosting this year's meeting of SNEWS (Southern New England Workshop in Semantics)SNEWS is a graduate student workshop having as its focus research in the field of semantics. It brings together graduate students in Linguistics from 6 schools - Brown, MIT, UConn, UMass, Yale, and Harvard. Its main desiderata are: (i) to give graduate students in Linguistics an opportunity to get feedback and gain presentation experience in an informal way before they are accepted at strong peer-reviewed conferences; and (ii) to give participants an opportunity to meet their peers from other universities, both personally and professionally - something that has led to lasting friendships and fruitful collaborations in the past.

Week of October 12, 2015

Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 13

The Department is excited to announce that the 13th volume of Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics (HWPL), edited by Andreea Nicolae (PhD 2013) and Gregory Scontras (PhD 2014), has now been published. The new issue is available here. Congratulations to all the contributors!

Scontras, Fuchs, and Polinsky appear in Frontiers in Psychology

The paper "Heritage Language and Linguistic Theory" co-authored by Greg Scontras (PhD 2014), Zuzanna Fuchsand Professor Maria Polinsky has been published in Volume 6 of Frontiers in Psychology.

Polyglot Hour

Wednesday, October 14 | 6:30 -8:30pm | Queen’s Head Pub (underneath Annenberg)

Harvard Linguistic Department is hosting its second annual undergraduate Polyglot Hour! Polyglot Hour will be time for anyone to come and meet other people who speak the language(s) they do in a casual setting. Please check the Facebook Event Page for more information.

Linguistics Department Fall Open House

The Linguistics Department Fall Open House for prospective concentrators will take place on Wednesday, October 21 from 5:15 to 7:00pm. Please check the event poster for more information.

Week of October 5, 2015

Linguistics Circle Workshop 

Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) 
A Parameter Hierarchy for Passives
Joint work with Michelle Sheehan
Friday, October 9 | 4pm | Boylston 103

Polyglot Hour

Wednesday, October 14 | 6:30 -8:30pm | Queen’s Head Pub (underneath Annenberg)

Harvard Linguistic Department is hosting its second annual undergraduate Polyglot Hour! Polyglot Hour will be time for anyone to come and meet other people who speak the language(s) they do in a casual setting. Please check the Harvard Linguistics Facebook page for updates.

Linguistics Department Fall Open House

The Linguistics Department Fall Open House for prospective concentrators will take place on Wednesday, October 21 from 5:15 to 7:00pm. Please check the event poster for more information.