# Summer 2021 August 30, 2021 ### Welcome Back! Welcome back for the academic year! The first day of classes is Wednesday, September 1 and **will follow a Monday schedule**. Please refer to the [Harvard Academic Calendar](https://registrar.fas.harvard.edu/harvard-college-academic-calendar) for further important semester dates. Please join me in welcoming to Harvard linguistics the following new people: - Lecturers: [Yağmur Sağ](/people/ya%C4%9Fmur-sa%C4%9F) and [Adam Singerman](/people/adam-singerman) - New graduate students: [Joost Botman](/people/joost-botman), [Aljoša Milenković](/people/aljo%C5%A1a-milenkovi%C4%87), and [Natasha Thalluri](/people/natasha-thalluri) - Visiting scholars [Terue Nakato](/people/terue-nakato) (Associate Professor at Kitasata University in Tokyo) and [Xiaoli Wang](/people/xiaoli-wang) (lecture and graduate student at Renmin University of China in Beijing) - Visiting fellow [Haoyue Hu](/people/haoyue-hu) (graduate students at Tsinghua University in Beijing) I would also like to welcome our current G2s, [Daria Bikina](/people/daria-bikina), [Tess Monks](/people/tess-monks), [Hayley Ross](/people/hayley-ross), and [Yvette Wu](/people/yi-chi-wu) to their first year of in-person classes. ### Summer Conferences The following conference talks or posters, listed in chronological order, were presented by members of the Harvard Department of Linguistics: - [Josh Martin](/people/joshua-martin): "Emergent privativity and constrained modulation in adjective semantics" on May 7 at [CLS 57](http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/) - [Hande Sevgi](/people/hande-sevgi): "Syntax on its own is not enough: Sign language classifiers" on May 7 at [CLS 57](http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org/) - [Ethan Wilcox](/people/ethan-wilcox), Roger Levy, and [Kathryn Davidson](/people/kathryn-davidson): "Which presuppositions are subject to contextual felicity constraints?" poster at [SALT 31](https://saltconf.github.io/salt31/index.html) on May 7. - [Josh Martin](/people/joshua-martin) and [Daria Bikina](/people/daria-bikina): "Intersectivity at the Interface: the syntax and semantics of Russian Adjectives" on May 15 at [FASL 30](https://fasl30.mit.edu/) - [Tamisha Tan](/people/tamisha-tan): "Possession and Passivity in Balinese: *ma-* in the Middle" on May 20 at [ISLOJ 8](https://indoling.com/isloj/) - [Hande Sevgi](/people/hande-sevgi) and [Wei-Fang Hsieh](/people/wei-fang-hsieh): "Verbal Reduplication and its restrictions in Bahasa Balinese" on May 20 at [ISLOJ 8](https://indoling.com/isloj/) - [Shannon Bryant](/people/shannon-bryant) and [Deniz Satik](/people/deniz-satik): "A Minimalist account of Balinese binding" on May 25 at [AFLA 28](https://lingconf.com/afla28/) - [Tamisha Tan](/people/tamisha-tan): "The diachrony of preverbal subject marking across NTT" on May 27 at [AFLA 28](https://lingconf.com/afla28/) - [Ian Kirby](/people/ian-kirby): "Emphasis and (anti-)additivity in polarity particles: Sakha *da(ghany)* and *emie*" on June 24 at [TripleA 8](https://lingconf.com/triplea8/) - [Tamisha Tan](/people/tamisha-tan): "Where Have all the Initial Vowels Gone? Epenthesis and Prothesis in Tetun Terik" on June 28 at [ICAL 15](https://indoling.com/ical15/) - [Zachary Rothstein-Dowden](/people/zachary-rothstein-dowden): "Definite Marking in Balinese" on July 1 at [ICAL 15](https://indoling.com/ical15/) - [Hayley Ross](/people/hayley-ross): "Implications of the Danish definiteness alternation for Nanosyntax" on August 26 at [AIMM 5](https://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/AIMM5/index.html) - [Niels Torben Kuehlert](/people/niels-kuehlert): "The Limits of Root-Controlled Allomorphy" on August 26 at [AIMM 5](https://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/AIMM5/index.html) ### Wurmbrand Honored For her recent birthday, Susi Wurmbrand was honored at [V-NYI #3](https://nyi.spb.ru/) with a two-volume festschrift titled *[The Size of Things](https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/323)*, with papers contributed by 40 current and former students and colleagues, edited by formed students Sabin Laszakovitz and Zheng Shen. ![susi](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/linguistics/files/susi.jpg) ### Itelmen Dictionary Published The Comprehensive Itelmen Dictionary project team (Aleksandr P. Volodin, Chikako Ono, [Jonathan Bobaljik](/people/jonathan-bobaljik), David Koester, and Michael Krauss) recently published the Itelmen-Russian edition of the [Comprehensive Itelmen Dictionary](https://dh-north.org/verlag/studies-in-linguistic-anthropology/de) (Kulturstiftung Sibirien, and Institute of Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Arts and Sciences). ![itlmndictionary](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/linguistics/files/itelmandictionary.jpg?itok=Wi08qV11) --- Attachments- [ image itelmandictionary.jpg ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/linguistics/files/itelmandictionary.jpg) --- Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)