#  Week of February 12 

 





February 11, 2024

 

 

##  **Harvard Linguistics Colloquium**

 The second Harvard Linguistics Colloquium this semester is taking place on Friday Feb 16. Details below:

 **Title: Toward a Discovery Procedure

 **Speaker:** [Charles Yang](https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/) (University of Pennsylvania)

 **Time:** Friday Feb 16 @ 12pm

 **Location:** Emerson 305

 **Abstract**: [here](/file_url/975)

 Hope to see lots of you there!

##  **Department of Linguistics Spring Open House**

 The Linguistics Department Spring Open House will be held on **Monday Feb 26, 2024 at 5PM** in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall. You are all cordially invited! This event is an opportunity for prospective concentrators to learn more about the Linguistics concentration and meet professors, current concentrators, graduate students, and the rest of the department, and for everyone to connect.

 We hope to see you all there!

   ![spring_open_house_poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/linguistics/files/spring_open_house_poster.png?itok=OJAcHt6q) 

 

##  **SNEWS at Harvard** 

 Harvard hosted this year's The Southern New England Workshop in Semantics ([SNEWS](https://snewsling.wordpress.com/workshop-program-snews-2022-yale-2/)) on Saturday Feb 10. Many excellent semanticists from MIT, UMass, UConn, Yale and Brown presented their work, as well as the following from our own department:

- Jacob Kodner: *Interpreting Fragment Answers at the vP Level*
- Nofar Rimon: *Coordination puzzles*
- James Lee: *Epistemic directness and commitment in Korean evidentials*
- Richard Luo (BA '23): *Probing the existence of degree abstraction in Mandarin BI-comparatives*

 Congratulations to all the presenters and the organising committee (Hayley, Natasha, and James) for their wonderful job!

   ![snews_23-24_group_photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/linguistics/files/snews_2023-2034_group_photo.jpg?itok=N7BpFN-z) 

 

##  **Welcome message**

 Professor Gong Cheng from the School of International Studies at Zhejiang University is visiting our department this semester. Welcome to Harvard!



 

 

 



 

 

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