February 2016

Week of February 29, 2016

ESSL/LacqLab at MIT

Zuzanna Fuchs
The Structure of Number and Gender in Native and Heritage Grammars of Spanish
Monday, February 29 | 1pm | 32-D831

LFRG at MIT

Aurore Gonzalez & Sophie Moracchini (MIT)
Discussion of Guerzoni (2003)’s dissertation: Even across languages and the scope theory
Wednesday, March 2 | 1pm | 32-D831

LingedIn

Gunnar Lund
Object Markers in Northwest Caucasian: Agreement or Clitic Doubling?
Wednesday, March 2 | 5pm | Boylston 303

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

Carlo Vessella (Harvard University)
The Conservatism of Attic and the Atticist Lexica
Friday, March 4 | 5pm | Boylston 103

Harvard at AAFS 68

Cristina Aggazzotti presented her collaboration work with Elizabeth Allyn Smith (Université du Québec à Montréal) and Carole Chaski (George Washington University) titled "Confirmation Bias and Metalinguistic Awareness" at the 68th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, February 22-27.

Week of February 22, 2016

Meaning and Modality Lab Meeting

Discussion of Goldin-Meadow and Brentari (forthcoming)
Wednesday, February 24 | 4pm | 2 Arrow St Rm 408

Linguistics Circle Workshop 

Dominique Sportiche (UCLA)
Neglect: Benign in Relative Clauses
Thursday, February 25 | 5:15pm | Sever Hall 306

Harvard at Spanish as a Heritage Language Symposium

Zuzanna Fuchs presented her work (collaboration with Greg Scontras (PhD 2014) and Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)) titled "Explaining Heritage Spanish Transfer attrition or universal principles?" at the 3rd National Symposium on Spanish as a Heritage Language, which took place at the University of Oregon, February 18-20.

This Semester's Visitor

The Department would like to welcome the new visiting fellow Carina Kauf from University of Gottingen, who just arrived and joined us last week. Welcome, Carina!

Week of February 15, 2016

LingedIn

Zuzanna Fuchs
Number, gender, and principles of economy in Heritage Spanish
(with Gregory Scontras and Masha Polinsky)
Wednesday, February 17 | 5pm | Boylston 303

LingedIn Schedule for Spring 2016

Ling-Lunch 2/17 - Yimei Xiang 

Week of February 8, 2016

Meaning and Modality Lab Meeting

Meaning and Modality (M&M) First Lab Meeting
Wednesday, February 10 | 4pm | 2 Arrow St Rm 420

The new "Meaning and Modality" Linguistics Laboratory is opening this semester. This first meeting is for anyone who is interested in getting involved in research in the lab, or simply participating in regular discussions about semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, sign language, gesture, and acquisition research. The lab meetings will be held on Wednesdays at 4pm. The meetings will be every other week, alternating with LingedIn (5pm in Boylston 303). For more information about getting involved, please contact Assistant Professor Kathryn Davidson.

Linguistics Circle Workshop 

Magdalena Kaufmann (UConn)
Free choice and other reasons for disjunctions
Friday, February 12 | 4:30pm | Boylston 103

Harvard Linguistics Circle: Spring 2016

  • February 12: Magdalena Kaufmann (UConn)

  • February 25: Dominique Sportiche (UCLA)

Harvard at BLS42

The following presentations featured Harvard presenters at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society that took place in Berkeley, California, February 5-7.

  • Gašper Beguš: Voice system of Austronesian and its origins
  • Isabelle Charnavel & Dominique Sportiche (UCLA): Icelandic reflexive sig: Clause-bounded, or logophoric