#  Week of January 28 

 





January 28, 2019

 

 

###  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](https://scholar.harvard.edu/vagheesh/home) (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](https://ling.franklin.uga.edu/directory/people/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](https://www.linguisticsociety.org/event/lsa-2019-annual-meeting), January 3-6 in New York City.

- [Giuseppe Ricciardi](/people/giuseppe-ricciardi): "Experiment on epistemic *must.*" Joint work with [Edward Gibson](http://tedlab.mit.edu/) (MIT)
- [Dorothy Ahn](/people/dorothy-ahn): "Acquisition of anaphoric *that.*" Joint work with [Sudha Arunachalam](https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty/Sudha_Arunachalam) (New York University).
- [Gunnar Lund](/people/gunnar-lund): "Complementizers in matrix contexts: reporting attitudes without attitude verbs." Joint work with [Carolyn Spadine](http://linguistics.mit.edu/user/cspadine/) (MIT).
- Taylor Joyce (Harvard College): "A unified contrastive analysis of lateral shift in ASL."
- [Christina Zlogar](/people/christina-chrissy-zlogar), Kate Henninger (Harvard College), [Kathryn Davidson](/people/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](https://crcs.seas.harvard.edu/people/mirac-suzgun), [Yonatan Belinkov](http://people.csail.mit.edu/belinkov/), and [Stuart Shieber](http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~shieber/): "On evaluating the generalization of LSTM models in formal languages."
- [Diti Bhadra](/people/diti-bhadra): "Domain restrictions in Bangla concealed questions." Joint work with [Jon Ander Mendia](https://jamendia.github.io/) (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf).

###  Welcome to visitors 

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

- [Weijuan Chen](/people/weijuan-chen), Fellow from Tsinghua University
- [Yam-Leung Lawrence Cheung](/people/yam-leung-lawrence-cheung), Visiting Scholar from Chinese University of Hong Kong
- [Fuyin Thomas Li](/people/fuyin-thomas-li), Visiting Scholar from Beihang University
- [Kyongjoon Kwon](/people/kyongjoon-kwon?admin_panel=1), Visiting Scholar from Sungkyunkwan University
- [Paula Fenger](/people/paula-fenger), Fellow from University of Connecticut



 

 

 



 

 

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