#  Week of February 6 

 





February 05, 2023

 

 

##  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.](https://nels53.uni-goettingen.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/44a.pdf)"

 Aljosa Milenkovic presented a posted titled "[Towards a less restrictive theory of tone-stress interaction](https://nels53.uni-goettingen.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/p07b.pdf)"

   ![Harvard at NELS](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/linguistics/files/nels_2023.jpg?itok=66lFRgs9) 

 

##  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](https://eejpl.vnu.edu.ua/index.php/eejpl/article/view/656). East European Journal of Psycholinguistics 9(2).

 The paper is a research of user experience in two ongoing volunteer-based initiatives, [COMMON](https://cmoncmon.co/en/) and [Speak Up for Peace](https://speakupforpeace.taplink.ws/), providing free online foreign language instruction to people in crisis (predominantly Ukrainian refugees).



 

 

 



 

 

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