Title: Clouds and other weater in Indo-European: Historical linguistics, culture and the natural world

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Title: Where do tones come from?

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Title: Where do tones come from?

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Title: Reanalysis and lexical innovation in the Dakkhini Urdu pronominal paradigm

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Title: The Revitalization, Maintenance and Linguistic Development Project

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Title: Revisiting universals of prosodic structure

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Title: Chukotko-Kamchatkan Inflection: Ergativity and the Putative Inverse

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Title: On Conservativity and Other Crosslinguistic Generalizations

 A reception immediately following the talk will be held at the Harvard Faculty Club.

ASL interpretation will be provided.

Title:  Linguistics and the Voynich Manuscript

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The Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS) is an annual graduate  student conference that brings together presenters from six universities: Harvard, MIT, Brown, Yale, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and University of Connecticut.

Title: Explaining the preference for nonconcatenative morphology in Dinka

2nd of 2 mini-lectures, with talk to follow on Friday, November 17.

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Title: Explaining the preference for nonconcatenative morphology in Dinka

First  of 2 mini-lectures, with a talk following Friday, November 17

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Title: Capèsset? Understanding Morphomes and Analogy across Romance

Abstract: The concept of morphomes (Aronoff 1994), patterns of paradigmatic coherence, has predominated much of the scholarship on the Romance verbal system (e.g., Maiden 2003, 2005, etc). While originally conceived of as a synchronic phenomenon that is 'uniquely morphological', much of the evidence for the existence of morphomes comes from their diachronic persistence and analogical attractiveness. This talk explores the intersection between...