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Week of January 28

Spring 2019 semester begins

The Spring 2019 semester begins on January 28.  The course registration deadline is Friday, February 1st by 11:59pm.

 

 

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

Vagheesh Narasimhan (Harvard Medical School)

"Understanding the movement of people through ancient DNA and the implications for linguistic change in a time before written records"

Friday, February 1st | 5:30 pm | Boylston 335

 

 

Language Universals Workshop 

John Hale (University of Georgia)

"Modeling fMRI time courses with linguistic structure"

Friday, February 1st | 3:30-5pm | Boylston 105

 

Harvard at LSA 2019

The following members of our department presented at the Linguistic Society of America's 93rd Annual Meeting, January 3-6 in New York City.

  • Giuseppe Ricciardi: "Experiment on epistemic must."  Joint work with Edward Gibson (MIT)
  • Dorothy Ahn: "Acquisition of anaphoric that." Joint work with Sudha Arunachalam (New York University).
  • Gunnar Lund: "Complementizers in matrix contexts: reporting attitudes without attitude verbs." Joint work with Carolyn Spadine (MIT).
  • Taylor Joyce (Harvard College): "A unified contrastive analysis of lateral shift in ASL."
  • Christina Zlogar, Kate Henninger (Harvard College), Kathryn Davidson: "Negating depictive modifiers in sign language and in co-speech gesture."
  • Rebecca Jarvis (Harvard College): "Endorsement of inconsistent imperatives." Joint work with Cleo Condoravdi (Stanford University), Sunwoo Jeong (Stanford University).
  • Mirac Suzgun, Yonatan Belinkov, and Stuart Shieber: "On evaluating the generalization of LSTM models in formal languages."
  • Diti Bhadra: "Domain restrictions in Bangla concealed questions."  Joint work with Jon Ander Mendia (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf).

 

Welcome to visitors 

Welcome to the following visitors to our department for the Spring semester