Week of Dec 2

Harvard GSAS Indo-European & Historical Linguistics Workshop

The final GSAS Indo-European & Historical Linguistics Workshop talk of the Fall 2024 semester will take place this Friday! Greta Galeotti will be presenting research on Friday December 6 @ 5 PM in Boylston 335. The talk will be followed by a small reception. Please find all details below.

Speaker: Greta Galeotti (Harvard University)

Time: Friday December 6 @ 5 PM EST

Location: Boylston 335 (Linguistics department, third floor)

Title: “Sappho, who wrongs you? Epic lengthening in fragment 1”

LangCog

The next LangCog meeting of the semester will be on Tuesday, December 3rd from 5:30-7:00pm. It will take place in William James Hall, Room #1550. The speaker is Patrick Juola (Duquesne University), and the title and abstract of his 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 the LangCog website.

Speaker: Patrick Juola, Joseph A. Lauritis, C.S.Sp Endowed Chair in Teaching and Technology, Duquesne University

Title: Forensic Linguistics: Casework and Empirical Demonstrations

Abstract: Forensic linguistics is a relatively undersubscribed subfield of forensic science, which focuses on developing legal conclusions from linguistic evidence.  In this talk, we discuss the theory and practice of "authorship attribution" (aka "stylometry") and some of its applications (such as identifying the author of a ransom note).  Examples are drawn from actual analyses drawn both from the literature and from the presenter's own casework. 

This is the last issue of this semester's Spell-Out Blog!

See you after the holidays!