#  Summer 2018 

 





September 03, 2018

 

 

###  Fall Semester Begins Tuesday

 The Fall semester begins on Tuesday, September 4th, 2018.

###  Department of Linguistics Fall Reception

 The Department of Linguistics Fall Reception is Thursday, September 13 at 5:00 PM, 3rd floor Boylston Hall. All students, staff, visitors to the department, and faculty are invited!

###  Harvard Welcomes Dr. Jonathan Bobaljik as Professor

 We are happy to announce that [Dr. Jonathan Bobaljik](/people/jonathan-bobaljik) has joined the department as a Professor starting this Fall. Professor Bobaljik's main research areas are morphology and syntax. He will be teaching Linguistics 104 (Word Structure) and Linguistics 114 (Morphological Theory I) in the Fall semester. Welcome!

###  Welcome Dr. Masoud Jasbi as College Fellow

 We are excited to announce that [Masoud Jasbi](/people/masoud-jasbi) as the 2018-2019 College Fellow. Jasbi received his PhD in linguistics from Stanford University in 2018. Jasbi's main research is in semantics and language acquisition. He will be teaching Linguistics 83 (Language, Structure & Cognition) and Linguistics 111 (Language Acquisition) in the Fall semester. Welcome!

###  Welcome Visiting Scholars

 [Huanhai Fang](/people/huanhai-fang), visiting scholar, from Xiamen University

 [Richard Faure](/people/richard-faure), visiting scholar, from Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis

 [Helene Guerre Vicente](/people/helena-da-silva-guerra-vicente), visiting scholar, from University of Brasilia

 [Xiaojun Eddy Wang](/people/xiaojun-wang), visiting scholar, from Tianjin Foreign Studies University

 [Futong Zhang](/people/futong-zhang), visiting scholar, from Xianlu Campus

 [Qi Hao,](/people/qi-hao) fellow, from Peking University

 [Chantale Yunt](https://chantaleyunt.weebly.com/), fellow, from University of Connecticut

 Christos Christopoulos, fellow, from University of Connecticut

 Welcome!

###  Borise Wins 2017-18 Distinguished Teaching Award in Linguistics

 [Lena Borise](/people/lena-borise) won the 2017-18 Distinguished Teaching Award in Linguistics for her tutorial "Prosody and the Syntax-Prosody Interface." Congratulations, Lena!

###  Harvard at ThEGen 2018

 [Zuzanna Fuchs](/people/zuzanna-fuchs) presented "Bantu DP Structure: An extension of the n analysis of gender," co-authored with Jenneke van der Wal, at [Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Gender](https://sites.google.com/site/thegen2018/talks-and-program) (ThEGen), June 14-15, 2018.

###  Harvard at TAL 2018

 [Lena Borise](/people/lena-borise) presented the poster "Word Stress and Phrase Accent in Georgian" (coauthored with Xavier Zientarski, University of Maryland) at [TAL (Tonal Aspect of Languages)](http://public.beuth-hochschule.de/~mixdorff/tal2018/), held in Berlin on June 18-20, 2018.

###  Harvard at Linguistic Explorations Beyond Language 

 Professor [Isabelle Charnavel](/people/isabelle-charnavel) was invited to present on the syntax of dance at [Linguistic Explorations Beyond Language: Music, Dance and Visual Narrative](http://www.phl.uoc.gr/confs/cssl18/workshopEvents.php) on July 18, 2018.

###  Zlogar and Davidson in Glossa

 [Christina Zlogar](/people/christina-chrissy-zlogar) and Professor [Kathryn Davidson](/people/kathryn-davidson)'s article ["Effects of linguistic context on the acceptability of co-speech gestures"](https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/10.5334/gjgl.438/) appeared in Glossa.

###  Meaning and Modality Lab Meetings

 [Giuseppe Ricciardi](/people/giuseppe-ricciardi) "Testing experimentally the truth-conditions of epistemic *must.*" June 12, 2018.

 [Dorothy Ahn](/people/dorothy-ahn) "Bare nouns in anaphoric contexts." July 17, 2018.

 Taylor Joyce "Quantification in Nicaraguan sign language." July 31, 2018.

 Sadie Patie and Michelle Min "Grammatical gender: an analysis from the perspective of heritage linguistics." August 7, 2018.

 [Masoud Jasbi ](/people/masoud-jasbi)"Conceptual and prosodic cues can help the acquisition of disjunction." August 12, 2018.

 [Gunnar Lund](/people/gunnar-lund), Rebecca Jarvis, and Greg Scontras "The pragmatics of semantic change: Modelling the progressive-to-imperative shift." August 28, 2018.



 

 

 



 

 

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