Week of February 6

Linguistics Circle Workshop

Tanya Bondarenko (Harvard University)

Title: Factivity alternations arise at LF: an argument from Azeri

Abstract: Factivity alternations received at least two kinds of explanations in the literature: there are approaches that attribute the two readings to two different LFs (e.g. Özyıldız 2017, 2018) and approaches that derive the presence/absence of a factive inference by appealing to general pragmatic mechanisms (e.g., Beaver 2010, Abrusán 2011, Simons et. al 2017, Jeong 2021). In this talk I investigate verbs displaying two different kinds of factivity alternations in Azeri and argue that they provide evidence in favor of the structural approach to factivity alternations.

Friday February 10 | 12-1:30 PM | Sever Hall 213

  Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop 

Zachary Rothstein-Dowden (Harvard University)

Title: 'Khowar c̣hoi, Pashai c̣ha and the historical phonology of the numeral ‘6’ in Indic'

Friday Feburary 10 | 5:00- 6:30 PM | Boylston Hall 335

Harvard LangCog

Jonathan Bobaljik (Harvard University)

Title: OV and VO order in Itelmen: A preliminary study

Tuesday February 7 | 5:30-7:00 PM | William James Hall #1550

Harvard Linguistics at NELS

53rd Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 53) took place at the University of Göttingen in Germany, January 12-14. The following members of Harvard Linguistics presented their work:

Yağmur Sağ and  Ömer Demirok (Boğaziçi University) presented a talk titled "Getting even without “even” in Turkish."

Aljosa Milenkovic presented a posted titled  "Towards a less restrictive theory of tone-stress interaction"

Bikina in East European Journal of Psycholinguistics

Daria Bikina co-authored  the  following paper in the East European Journal of Psycholinguistics for its special issue called `Language and War'

Chrabaszcz, Anna, Antropova, Julia, Bikina, Daria, Anisimova, Vera, Menukhova, Anna, Mirabo, Sarah, Odnoshivkina, Victoria, Tikhomirova, Anna, Shcherbakova, Anna, and Tatiana Zmiievskaia (2023). Creating communities of practice for fostering second language learning in people in crisis. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 9(2).

 The paper is a research of user experience in two ongoing volunteer-based initiatives, COMMON and Speak Up for Peace, providing free online foreign language instruction to people in crisis (predominantly Ukrainian refugees).