IX Whatmough Lecture

Barbara Partee (UMass-Amherst)
The History of Formal Semantics: Changing Notions of Semantic Competence
Monday, April 28, 2014 | 4:00pm to 6:00pm | Sever Hall 113

This year's Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Lecture will feature Barbara Partee, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy at UMass-Amherst. Please find the abstract here.

Thesis Defense

Lauren Eby Clemens
Prosodic noun incorporation and verb-initial syntax
Wednesday, April 30 | 11am-2pm | Boylston 303

Language Universals/Polinsky Lab Meeting 

Tyler Lau (Harvard University)
The Interaction of Vowel Devoicing and Pitch Accent in Shiraho Yaeyaman
Wednesday, April 30 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)

Harvard at PhoNE

Yujing Huang presented her work "Tone Sandhi Variation in Mandarin: a non-cyclic analysis" at the Phonology in the Northeast Conference (PhoNE), which took place at MIT on April 26.

Next week at Harvard

Senior Thesis Colloquium
Tuesday, May 6 | 2:15pm-4:30pm | Sever 102

Department Spring Reception
Tuesday, May 6 | 5:15pm | Boylston

Congratulations, Dr. Grestenberger!

Congratulations to Laura Grestenberger who has successfully defended her dissertation, "Feature Mismatch: Deponency in Indo-European Languages."

Left to right: Laura Grestenberger, Jay Jasanoff, and Marek Majer

Congratulations, Laura!

[Photos by Pooja Paul]