#  Week of April 8 

 





April 08, 2024

 

 

##  **LangCog** 

 The next LangCog meeting of the semester will be on **Tuesday, April 9th from 5:30-7:00pm**! It will take place in **William James Hall, Room #1550**. The speaker next week is Hallie Olson (MIT), and the title and abstract of her talk can be found below. Food will be available at the meeting, and you can find the schedule for the remainder of the semester on their [website](https://sites.harvard.edu/langcog/).

 **Title**: Language in the developing mind and brain

 **Abstract**: [here](https://sites.harvard.edu/langcog/calendar_event/halie-olson/)

##  **Bondarenko's new publication**

 Our faculty Tanya Bondarenko published a new paper on Balker scrambling with Colin Davis in *Syntax* on March 29! The title of the paper is *'*[Cross-clausal scrambling and subject case in Balkar: On multiple specifiers and the locality of overt and covert movement](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/synt.12286)'. Congrats, Tanya!

##  **Sağ-Parvardeh accepted by NLLT**

 Our College Fellow Yağmur Sağ-Parvardeh's paper 'On the (non-)optionality of the Turkish classifier *tane*' is recently accepted for publication in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory! If you are curious about what Turkish reveals about counting constructions and (in)definiteness across languages, check out the pre-print version [here](https://www.yagmursag.com/PDF/Sag_NLLT_manuscript__13_March_2024.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0eVmxAL5tOOc-jnxP-2iip8JhqQ--Lq8al10kJ3uzuksg_I_GwYEmBAog_aem_Aa3QUiVDUojyoq_QA38K7zecKii5N_5Ja-T40zFQVuwbUT4hxAGeWbh5REyIRB1eNOqGLCKdv9MFJ2kTZTRodiQ8). Big congrats, Yağmur!

##  **Harvard-Yenching Institute Visting Scholar Talk**

 A current visiting scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute [Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs](https://www.harvard-yenching.org/person/yeshes-vodgsal-atshogs/), who will be visiting our department next year, is giving a talk on **Wednesday April 10th at 11:30 am – 1:00 pm**. The chair of the session will be our own Kevin Ryan. Details of the talk are as follows:

 **Title**: Does the Sino-Tibetan Language Family Exist? — A Fresh Exploration of the Historical Relationship Between Tibetan, Chinese, and Surrounding Languages

 **Abstract**: [here](https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/does-the-sino-tibetan-language-family-exist-a-fresh-exploration-of-the-historical-relationship-between-tibetan-chinese-and-surrounding-languages/)

 **Location**: Common Room (#136), 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

 **Time**: Wednesday April 10 @ 11:30 am – 1:00 pm

 It would be lovely to see you there!

##  **Baptista's Talk** 

 Marlyse Baptista gave a talk at Harvard Linguistics Colloquium last Friday April 5 titled 'An empirical, experimental and morphosyntactic approach to the hybridity of functional categories in Creole emergence'. Thanks so much, Marlyse!



 

 

 



 

 

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