Title: On Conservativity and Other Crosslinguistic Generalizations

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

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Title: The unbearable lightness of be: Some of the strange and illimunating things that happen when we use nouns as predicates

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Please join us for the 14th Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Lecture given by Professor Larry Hyman of the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Reception at the Harvard Faculty Club immediately following.

Title: The Fall and Rise of Vowel Length in Bantu

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XII Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Guest Lecturer: Philippe Schlenker,  Research Director, Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS and Global Distinguished Professor, Department of Linguistics, New York University

Title:  Meaning in Sign, in Speech and in Gestures

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XI Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Guest Lecturer: Alec Marantz, Silver Professor of Linguistics and Psychology, New York University

Title: Linguistics as Cognitive Science: Back to our Roots

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X Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Guest Lecturer: Jonathan D. Bobaljik,  Professor of Linguistics, University of Connecticut

Title:  Morphological Universals: Comparatives and Beyond