#  Week of April 14, 2014 

 





April 13, 2014

 

 

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GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop:

[**Gašper Beguš** ](/people/ga%C5%A1per-begu%C5%A1)(Harvard University)  
*[Vedic Metrics and the Restoration of the Lost \*v](/event/indo-european-ga%C5%A1per-begu%C5%A1)*  
Monday, April 14 | 5:15pm | Boylston 303

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Language Universals/Polinsky Lab Meeting 

**[Bronwyn Bjorkman](http://individual.utoronto.ca/bjorkman/)** (University of Toronto)  
*[Ergative as Perfective Oblique](/event/universals-reading-group-bronwyn-bjorkman)*  
Wednesday, April 16 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)

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Linguistics Circle Workshop 

**[Alec Marantz](http://linguistics.as.nyu.edu/object/AlecMarantz.html)** (New York University)  
*[Competition and Prediction in Word Processing: MEG Studies of Visual and Auditory Word Recognition](/event/alec-marantz)* Friday, April 18 | 4:30pm | Boylston 103

### Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium

The [11th Annual Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium at Harvard](/file_url/226), hosted by the Harvard College Linguistics Group and the Harvard Linguistics Department, will take place this Saturday, April 19. The event will feature a keynote speech by Professor **[Wesley Jacobsen](http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/w_jacobsen.php)**, as well as presentations of original research by over 20 undergraduates from universities across the country. More information including the schedule can be found in the [program](/file_url/225).

### Harvard at CLS 50

**[Jenny Lee](/people/so-yeon-jenny-lee)** presented her work ["Root allomorphy in Ranmo (Papuan)"](http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/cls/files/2014/04/cls50schedule.pdf) at the [50th annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society,](http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/cls/) which took place at the University of Chicago, April 10-12.

### Congratulations, Dr. Liu!

Congratulations to **[Chi-Ming (Louis) Liu](http://cmluyiliu.wordpress.com/)** who has successfully defended his dissertation, "A Modular Theory of Radical Pro Drop."

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Left to right: Maria Polinsky, Louis Liu, C.-T. James Huang. ![p1090019.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/linguistics/files/p1090019.jpg)

 

Congratulations, Louis!  
\[Photos by Edwin Tsai\]

### IX Whatmough Lecture

**[Barbara Partee](http://people.umass.edu/partee/)** (UMass-Amherst)

["The History of Formal Semantics: Changing Notions of Semantic Competence"](/file_url/230)  
Monday, April 28, 2014 | 4:00pm to 6:00pm | Sever Hall 113

This year's [Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough](/pages/whatmough-lecture) will feature Barbara Partee, Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy at UMass-Amherst. She is one of the founders of contemporary formal semantics.



 

 

 



 

 

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