Week of October 31, 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.

 GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

Benjamin W. Fortson IV (Michigan University)
"An Image of the Evening Star in Darkness" (on Latin nouns with nominative singular in -gō and genitive singular in -ginis)
Friday, November 4 | 3:30pm | Boylston 105

 LingedIn

Lena Borise
Word order and prosody: What can we learn from Georgian focus?
Friday, November 4 | 12pm | Boylston 303 

Beatbox Phonetics

Harry Yeff, an award-winning beatboxer who spoke recently in Lecturer Aleksei Nazarov's "Sounds of Language" (Linguistics 105) course, discusses the value linguistic phonetics has for the art of beatboxing in the Harvard Gazette.

Charnavel at Stony Brook

Assistant Professor Isabelle Charnavel gave two invited talks at Stony Brook University on October 25th and 26th. The first, "Causes for Judges", was given as part of the Frontiers talk series. The second, "Dance your Mind: steps toward a generative theory of dance cognition", was given as part of Stony Brook University's Language, Music and Emotion Research Group's Distinguished Lecture Series.