Linguistics Spring Open House
Monday, April 4 | 5:15pm-7:00pm | Boylston Hall, 3rd Floor
This year's Spring Open House will take place on Monday, April 4, in the department lounge. Students and faculty will be at the event to answer any questions about concentrations, study abroad opportunities, and other research opportunities. Refreshments will be provided. Everyone is very much welcome to attend and mingle!
LingedIn
Yuyin He
The Controlled PRO in Mandarin
Wednesday, April 6 | 5pm | Boylston 303
GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop
Stefan Höfler (University of Vienna)
“The Mighty Ox” and other Tales from the Land of Indo-European Word Formation
Thursday, April 7 | 5pm | Boylston 237
Davidson at UMass Amherst Colloquium
Kathryn Davidson
Combining imagistic and discrete components in a single proposition: The case of sign language classifier predicates
Friday, April 8 | 3:30pm | ILC N400 (UMass Amherst)
13th Annual Harvard Undergraduate Colloquium
Saturday, April 9 - Sunday, April 10 | Science Center 309
Please find the program here.
XI Annual Whatmough Lecture: Alec Marantz
Linguistics as Cognitive Science: Back to our Roots
Monday, April 11 | 4:00pm-6:00pm | Fong Auditorium, 110 Boylston Hall
The guest lecturer for the XI Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Lecture will be Alec Marantz, Silver Professor of Linguistics and Psychology, New York University.
Harvard at LSRL46
The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 46) that took place at Stony Brook University, New York, March 31-April 3.
- Isabelle Charnavel: Long-distance binding of French reflexive soi (≈‘one(self)’): First-person oriented empathy
- Aurore Gonzalez & Sophie Moracchini (MIT): A morpho-semantic decomposition of French le moindre into even + superlative