November 2015

Week of November 30, 2015

Last week of class

Fall term Reading Period begins this Friday, December 4. Fall examinations begin next Friday, December 11 and ends on Monday, December 21. For more information, please check the  2015-2016 Academic Calendar.

Harvard Ling Lunch

Monday, November 30 | 1-2pm | Boylston 335

  • 1-1:30pm Jelena Borise: Disyllabic Stress Domain in a Belarusian Dialect
  • 1:30-2pm Pooja Paul: Towards a Parallel Analysis for 'only' and 'even'

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

Alexander Forte (Classics Department, Harvard)
A Neglected Verb of Vision in Ancient Greek
Thursday, December 3 | 5pm | Boylston 335

Linguistics Circle/Universals Workshop 

Claire Bowern (Yale University)
Pama-Nyungan Phylogenetics and Beyond
Friday, December 4 | 4:30pm | Boylston 103

Davidson in Linguistics and Philosophy

Assistant Professor Kathryn Davidson's article entitled "Quotation, demonstration, and iconicity" has been published in Linguistics and Philosophy Vol. 38, Issue 6.

Majer's article appears in Scando-Slavica

Marek Majer's article entitled "Russian kotóryj, Czech který, Slovene katę́ri: Vowel Variation in the Reflexes of Proto-Slavic *koterъ(jь) ‘which (of the two)" has been published in Scando-Slavica Vol. 61, Issue 2.

Week of November 16, 2015

SNEWS @ Harvard

Saturday, November 21 | Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard

This year's Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS) is taking place at Harvard this Saturday, November 21. For more information, please check the workshop program.

Welcome, Class of 2018!

The Department is delighted to welcome the following Class of '18 members as the new concentrators in Linguistics: 

  • Anna Alsop
  • Timothy Doner
  • Maya Grimes
  • Jennifer Hu
  • Ryan Lawton
  • Beckett Mullen
  • Jerry Nelluvelil
  • Brian Rolincik
  • Rachel Silverstein

Week of November 9, 2015

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

José Luis García Ramón (Universität zu Köln)
Seminar: A Linguistic Continuum in Post-Mycenaean Central Greece: Dialects in Contact and Phylogeny
Monday, November 9 | 5-7pm | Boylston 237

Lecture: Greek Onomastics, Phraseology and Indo-European Poetic Language: From the Files of a New Edition of Bechtel's Die historischen Personennamen des Griechischen
Tuesday, November 10 | 6-8pm | Barker 114

Language Universals Workshop 

Colin Wilson (Johns Hopkins)
An articulatory-phonetic account of vowel epenthesis into nonnative consonant clusters
Friday, November 13 | 4:00pm | Boylston 335

SNEWS @ Harvard

This year's Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS), an annual graduate student conference that brings together presenters from Harvard, MIT, Brown, Yale, UMass and UConn, will take place at Harvard on Saturday, November 21. The program of the workshop can be found below. Please RSVP by filling out this form.

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