Week of April 20, 2015

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

Craig Melchert (UCLA)
More on Ablaut Patterns in the ḫi-Conjugation
Monday, April 20 | 5:00pm | Boylston 335

Language Universals Workshop 

Patrick Jones (Harvard)
Tone Shift is Phonological, and Phonology is not Emergent: Linguistic knowledge and the acquisition of tone in Kinande
Wednesday, April 22 | 5:15pm | Boylston 303

Charnavel at BU

Assistant Professor Isabelle Charnavel presented her work titled “Auxiliary alternations in French passé surcomposé” as an invited talk at the BU Linguistics Program (Department of Romance Studies, CAS) on Thursday, April 16.

Harvard at GLOW38

Dorothy Ahn and Uli Sauerland (ZAS, visiting professor 2013) presented their work titled "Relative Measures: Implications for the Semantics and Syntax of Pseudo-Partitives" at the 38th Generative Linguistics in the Old World colloquium (GLOW 38), which took place in Paris, April 15-18, 2015.

Whatmough X Lecture

Jonathan D. Bobaljik (University of Connecticut)
Morphological Universals: Comparatives and Beyond 
Monday, April 27 | 4:00-6:00pm | Sever Hall 113

2015 Linguistics Department Spring Reception

Wednesday, April 29 | 5:15pm to 7:15pm | 3rd floor Boylston
*Please note that the reception is now on Wednesday, April 29.