November 2016

Week of November 28, 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.

Welcome Concentrators!

The linguistics department is happy to welcome the following thirteen new concentrators to the department.

Samantha Berman
Anand Bradley
Athena Braun
Gabriel Coonce
Kayla Evans
Patricia Marie Guzman
Rebecca Jarvis
Aidan Langston
Amy Morrisett
Sharanya Pulapura
Christian Savarese
Jad Wehbe
Brian Yu

 Linguistics Circle Workshop 

Alan Yu (University of Chicago)
Reconceptualizing phonologization
Thursday, December 1 | 5:45pm | Sever 106

 LingedIn

Yuyin He
A glimpse of Mandarin Control
Friday, December 2 | 12pm | Boylston 303

Language and Cognition

Dora Mihoc
More evidence of heterogeneity in the class of comparative and superlative numeral modifiers
Tuesday, November 29 | 5:30pm | William James Hall 1305

Week of November 21, 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

Rafael Pascual (Harvard University)
Old English Dithematic Names and the Reliability of Sieversian Metrics
Monday, November 21 | 5pm | Boylston 335

Harvard at the Word Order Variation at the Interfaces workshop

Lena Borise presented her work titled "Word Order and Prosody: What Can We Learn from Georgian Focus?" with Maria Polinsky at Word Order Variation at the Interfaces, a workshop that took place at Ben Gurion University in Be'er Sheba, Israel, November 13-15.

Isabelle at Rutgers Colloquium

Isabelle Charnavel  presented her work titled "Perspectival Effects in Circumstantial Subordinates" at an invited colloquium talk at Rutgers University on November 18

Jenneke at University of Minnesota

Jenneke van der Wal presented her work titled "The need for an alternative system of Case licensing in Bantu" at an invited talk at The University of Minnesota on November 18.

Week of November 14, 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

Sarah Murray (Cornell)
The Semantics of Evidentials
Friday, November 18 | 3:30pm | Boylston 105

 LingedIn

Lukas Kahl
The Insular Celtic Equative
Friday, November 18 | 12pm | Boylston 303

Harvard at SNEWS

Giuseppe Ricciardi presented his work "The epistemic use of the Italian future morphology" and Laine Stranahan presented her work " Effects of working memory load on contrastive inference" at the 2016 Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS) at Brown University on Saturday, November 12.

Week of November 7, 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.

 Linguistics Circle Workshop 

Lucas Champollion (NYU)
Two switches in the theory of counterfactuals: A study of truth conditionality and minimal change
Friday, November 11 | 3:30pm | Boylston 105

Begus at MIT Phonology Circle

Gašper Beguš
Unnatural Trends in the Lexicon: Diachrony and Synchrony 
Monday, November 7 | 5pm | MIT 32-D83

Harvard-MIT Fieldwork Group Meeting

Jenneke van der Wal will be talking about eliciting focus and information-structural phenomena, based on her work on Bantu languages. 
Thursday, November 10 | 5pm | Boylston 303