Week of April 29 -- Happy summer!

17th Annual Whatmough Lecture

The 17th Annual Whatmough Lecture took place on April 29th. The speaker this year is Maribel Romero from University of Konstanz and the talk was titled "On Conservativity and other Crosslinguistic Generalizations". Many faculties and students in our department and even guests from outside the department attended the talk. A reception followed at the Harvard Faculty Club. Thanks so much for the wonderful talk, Maribel! 

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Harvard at CLS

Three members of the Harvard Linguistics Department presented at the Chicago Linguistic Society this weekend: 

  • Tanya Bondarenko (faculty): Building the meaning of a long-distance question via prolepsis: the case of Georgian
  • Jacob Kodner (G1): Interpreting Fragment Answers at the vP Level
  • Hande Sevgi (G5): Two-handed classifiers in sign languages: an investigation in Turkish Sign Language

Well done and congratulations to them all! 

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End-of-semester Celebrations

Starting from last Wednesday, a series of celebration events have been held to celebrate the end of this semester and the academic year. We sent our best wishes to 

  • Jim, who is retiring after 45 years of teaching;
  • Yağmur, who is moving to Rutgers University this Fall; and 
  • all the seniors who are graduating this year!

Thank you all so much for the great semester! See you all back in the Fall. 

 

This is the last issue of Spell-Out Blog this semester. 

Have a wonderful summer! 

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