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Week of March 20, 2017

Department Talk

Jonathan Bobaljik (University of Connecticut)
"On Some Universals? of Case and Agreement" (Abstract)
Friday, March 24 | 4:00pm | Location: Boylston Hall 105 
There will a be reception following the talk.

Upcoming Department Talks, Spring 2017

Hamida Demirdache (University of Nantes, France)
March 31 @ 4:00
Title and location tba

Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut)
April 7 @ 4:00
Title and location tba

 GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

Andrew Ollett (Harvard Society of Fellows)
Clausal Complements in Middle Indic
Wednesday, March 22 | 5pm | Boylston 105

Cristina, Lena, and Laine Win Teaching Award

Cristina Aggazzotti, Lena Borise, and Laine Stranahan have won Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

  • Cristina Aggazzotti: Ling 83 "Language, Structure & Cognition" (TF)
  • Lena Borise: Ling 102 "Sentence Structure" (TF)
  • Laine Stranahan: Ling 241r "Practicum in Linguistics" (TF)

Congratulations!

Harvard at GLOW 40

The following talks featured Harvard presenters at Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) 40 that took place at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, March 14-18.

  • Zuzanna Fuchs, with Greg Scontras (PhD 2013) and Maria Polinsky (UMD): "Restructuring in heritage grammars"

  • Yimei Xiang: "Composing questions: A hybrid categorial approach"

Yimei at ILLC

Yimei Xiang gave two invited talks at the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC) in Amsterdam on March 17.  The first, titled "Sensitivity to false answers in interpreting questions under attitudes" was at the Inquisitive Semantics seminar. The second, "Composing complex questions: Multi-wh quesitons and questions with quantifiers", was at the Discourse in Philosophy (DIP) Colloquim.

Linguistics Spring Open House

The Spring Open House for potential concentrators is taking place on Wednesday, March 29, from 5pm to 7pm in Boylston Hall (3rd floor). This is a great opportunity to talk to current concentrators, grad students, and faculty, and learn about linguistics. Everyone is welcome!