#  Week of April 20, 2015 

 





April 18, 2015

 

 

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GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

**[Craig Melchert](http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/Melchert/)** (UCLA)  
[More on Ablaut Patterns in the ḫi-Conjugation](/event/indo%E2%80%93european-craig-melchert)  
Monday, April 20 | 5:00pm | Boylston 335

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Language Universals Workshop 

**[Patrick Jones](/people/patrick-jackson-jones)** (Harvard)  
[Tone Shift is Phonological, and Phonology is not Emergent: Linguistic knowledge and the acquisition of tone in Kinande](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=node/423)  
Wednesday, April 22 | 5:15pm | Boylston 303

### Charnavel at BU

Assistant Professor **[Isabelle Charnavel](https://sites.google.com/site/isabellecharnavel/)** presented her work titled [“Auxiliary alternations in French passé surcomposé”](http://www.bu.edu/rs/2015/03/20/auxiliary-alternations-in-french-passe-surcompose-a-talk-by-isabelle-charnavel/) as an invited talk at the BU Linguistics Program (Department of Romance Studies, CAS) on Thursday, April 16.

### Harvard at GLOW38

**[**Dorothy Ahn**](http://scholar.harvard.edu/dorothyahn)** and **[Uli Sauerland](http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarbeiter_sauerland.html)** (ZAS, visiting professor 2013) presented their work titled ["Relative Measures: Implications for the Semantics and Syntax of Pseudo-Partitives"](https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnwyMDE1Z2xvd3xneDo0ZmExYzFlMzMwOGFiODg4) at the [38th Generative Linguistics in the Old World colloquium](https://sites.google.com/site/2015glow/) (GLOW 38), which took place in Paris, April 15-18, 2015.

### Whatmough X Lecture

**[Jonathan D. Bobaljik](http://bobaljik.uconn.edu/JDB/Home.html)** (University of Connecticut)  
[Morphological Universals: Comparatives and Beyond](/event/whatmough-x-lecture)   
Monday, April 27 | 4:00-6:00pm | Sever Hall 113

### 2015 Linguistics Department Spring Reception

Wednesday, April 29 | 5:15pm to 7:15pm | 3rd floor Boylston  
\*Please note that the reception is now on **Wednesday, April 29**.



 

 

 



 

 

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