Week of August 31, 2015

Welcome to the Fall 2015 semester!

Classes begin this Wednesday, September 2. Classes on this day will follow a Monday schedule. Please remember that Thursday, September 10 is Study Card Day. For more information, please check the 2015 Academic Calendar.

Welcome G1s!

The Linguistics Department is delighted to welcome this year's incoming students to the PhD program:

	Lukas Kahl has studied Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, Romance Studies and Classics at the University of Bonn, and Indo-European Studies at the University of Jena. He is interested in the historical linguistics of Indo-European, the areal linguistics of the ancient Near East, and issues in language classification, reconstruction, and typology. He also enjoys music, poetry, and physical exercise.
	Kate Hodges graduated with a BS in neuroscience from King University and spent an additional year studying linguistics at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. Her academic interests include formal semantics, the semantics-pragmatics interface, and psycholinguistics. In her spare time Kate enjoys exploring Boston, reading, cooking, and spending time with her dog, Baylie.
	Gunnar Lund graduated from Boston College with a BA in Linguistics and Philosophy. There, he completed a thesis investigating the context sensitivity of gradable predicates. His main interests are semantics, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language, with further interests in computational linguistics and logic. In his spare time, he enjoys drawing, making experimental music, and watching baseball and weird movies.
	Tsai-Heng (Tiffany) Yang graduated with a MA in Linguistics and a BA in Chinese Literature from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Her MA thesis investigates the distributive readings of Mandarin Chinese. She is interested in syntax, semantics, and syntax-semantics interface. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, discovering new places, and watching NBA games of her favorite team, the San Antonio Spurs.

This Year's Visitors

The Department would like to give a warm welcome to the four visitors who will be joining the department this academic year:

Professor Wei Liu (Beijing Jiaotong University)
Professor Liying Zhou (Jiangnan University)
Jovana Gajic (University of Gottingen)
Fanjun Meng (Tsinghua University)

Thesis Defense

Sun-Hee Bae
The Syntax-Phonology Interface in Native and Near-Native Korean
Wednesday, September 2 | 7pm | Boylston 303

Lunch will be served September 3 at 12:30pm in the Boylston Hall 3rd Floor Lounge.

Fall 2015 Courses

Class	Instructor	Day & Time	Location
Ling 101: Science of Language	K. Ryan	M/W 11-12	Harvard 102
Ling 102: Sentence Structure	C.-Y. Tsai	M/W 10–11	Boylston 105
Ling 105: Sounds of Language	C.-Y Tsai	T/Th 10-11	Sever 302
Ling 108: Intro to Historical Linguistics	J. Rau	T/Th 11-12	Boylston 303
Ling 112: Syntactic Theory I	C.-T. J. Huang	W 3–5	Boylston 303
Ling 115: Phonological Theory I	K. Ryan	Th 1–3	Boylston 303
Ling 116: Semantic Theory I	G. Chierchia	T 1–3	Boylston 303
Ling 130: Psycholinguistics	M. Polinsky	Th 10-12	Barker 211
Ling 149: Languages of the Caucasus	M. Polinsky	F 10:30-12:30	Boylston 303
Ling 200: Second Language Acquisition	S. Clancy	W 2-4	Robinson 107
Ling 207r: Topics in Semantics	G. Chierchia	W 1-3	Boylston 303
Ling 220ar: Advanced Indo-European	J. Jasanoff	Th 3-5	Boylston 303
Ling 250: Old Church Slavonic	M. Flier	T/Th 10-11:30	Barker 373

Ling 98a Junior Tutorials:

Game Theory and Linguistic Meaning - Chrissy Zlogar
Inquisitive Semantics - Dora Mihoc
Experimental Methods in Linguistics Testing Unaccusative Hyphothesis - Yujing Huang
Discourse Analysis - Alex Klapheke
Statistical Methods in Linguistics - Zuzanna Fuchs

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