Week of February 25

Linguistics Circle Workshop

Ljiljana Progovac (Wayne State University)

"Gradual evolution of some key postulates of syntax: Making sense of small clauses, middles, islands, exocentrics, and other syntactic shortcomings"

Friday, March 1 | 3:30-5pm | Boylston 104

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

Justin Miller (Harvard University Department of the Classics)

"Why was six afraid of seven? Numeral reconstruction in Proto-Akkadian and its implications for the Affricate Hypothesis"

Friday, March 1 | 5pm | Boylston 335

LingedIn

Tamisha Tan

"Title: Identity Avoidance in Malay Imitative Reduplication"

Tuesday, February 26 | 12-1pm | Boylston 303

Spring Open House

The Spring Open House of the Linguistics department will be on Wednesday, March 6 from 5:15-6:30pm on the third floor of Boylston Hall. This is open to undergraduate students who are interested in linguistics and want to meet with the department members (faculty, graduate students and concentrators). Refreshments will be provided.

Linguistics Industry Panel

The Linguistics Industry Panel will take place on Feb 28, Thursday, 5:15pm-7:15pm in Boylston 103. This event is a panel discussion on linguistics in industry, open to both undergraduates and graduates. We will invite speakers with a linguistics background who are now working in industry to share their experience and opinions on linguistics in non-academic careers.