Week of April 6, 2015

Department of Linguistics Spring Open House

The Department of Linguistics Spring Open House for prospective concentrators will take place this Thursday, April 9, 5:00-7:00 pm. Please check the poster for more information.

Polinsky Lab Meeting 

Ava Berinstein (Cultural Vitality) & Erin Olson (MIT)

Prosody Lab Aligner Demo in Q’eqchi’, Mayan
Wednesday, April 4 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor)

Polyglot Hour

Wednesday, April 8 | 6:30 -8:30pm | Queen’s Head Pub (underneath Annenberg)

Harvard Linguistic Department is hosting its first ever undergraduate Polyglot Hour! Polyglot Hour will be time for anyone to come and meet other people who speak the language(s) they do in a casual setting. Please check the Facebook event page for more information.

Linguistics Circle Workshop 

Satoshi Tomioka (University of Delaware)
(Non)-Exhaustivity of "Only"
Friday, April 10 | 4:30pm | Boylston 104

ECO5

Saturday, April 11 | Boylston 335

Harvard will host this year's ECO-5, a graduate student conference bringing together presenters from Harvard, MIT, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Maryland. The program can be found here.

Harvard at Indogermanistisches Forschungskolloquium

Julia Sturm presented her work titled "Preverb + Verb Compounds in the Rg Veda: A Construction-Based Approach" at Erstes Indogermanistisches Forschungskolloquium (First Indo-European Research Colloquium), which took place at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, March 26-27.

Beguš's paper appears in Zeitschrift für Slawistik

Congratulations to third year Gašper Beguš, whose article titled "The Circumflex Advancement in Prekmurje Slovenian and Bednja Kajkavian" has appeared in Zeitschrift für Slawistik 60(1).