Week of October 24, 2016

Senior Faculty Syntax Opening

The Department of Linguistics at Harvard University seeks to make a tenured appointment at the rank of Professor in the area of syntax. Details may be found here. Please contact Cheryl Murphy for more details.

 Language Universals Workshop 

Byron Ahn (Princeton)
Deep Universals in Reflexive Syntax
Friday, October 28 | 3:30pm | Boylston 105

 LingedIn

Giuseppe Ricciardi
The non-temporal use of the Italian future morphology
Friday, October 28 | 12pm | Boylston 303

Harvard at AMP

The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters at the 2016 Annual Meeting of Phonology that took place at USC in Los Angeles, October 21 - 23.

  • Gašper Beguš - "Inherently weighted constraints" (poster)
  • Associate Professor Kevin Ryan - "Stress-modulated quantitative meter" (talk) and "Grammatical factors in Tommo So tone-tune mapping" (talk with Laura McPherson)
  • Lecturer Aleksei Nazarov - "Learning parametric stress without domain-specific mechanisms" (talk with Gaja Jarosz)

Harvard at JK24

Dorothy Ahn presented her poster titled "Demonstratives: Anaphoric or Deictic? Evidence from Japanese and Korean" at The 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK24), which took place at National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, in Tokyo, Japan, October 14-16.

Davidson Presents at Toronto

Assistant Professor Kathryn Davidson gave an invited talk titled "Quotation, Classifier Predicates, and a Formal Semantics for Event Demonstrations" at the University of Toronto on October 21.