Bondarenko at NYI
Tanya Bondarenko gave a lecture at the virtual school NYI over the winter break. The title of the lecture was ‘Getting by without movement: cross-clausal dependencies in Georgian’. Well done, Tanya!
Harvard at NELS 54
The 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 54) was hosted by MIT from January 26th – 27th, 2024. A group of Harvard linguists presented marvellous work, including:
- Tanya Bondarenko (faculty, with Patrick Elliott): On the monotonicity of attitudes: NPIs and clausal embedding
- Yağmur Sağ (faculty): Fake mass nouns and associative plurality
- Yiyang Guo (visitor, with Shumian Ye): Considering an issue: The doubt-suspect ambiguity of Mandarin huaiyi
- Shannon Bryant (PhD '22): Close vs. Cloze: The role(s) of contact and expectancy in English pronoun preferences
- Jad Wehbe (BA '19): Covert reciprocals
- Johanna Alstott (BA '22): Before and after decomposing first and last
Congrats, everyone!
Photo: A subset of the Harvard Linguists at NELS 54 (and Uli Sauerland!)
Harvard Linguistics Colloquium
The first Harvard Linguistics Colloquium is taking place this Friday (Feb 2). Details below:
Title: Where do new phonemes come from? Explaining the Pama-Nyungan (lack of) sound change
Speaker: Claire Bowern (Yale)
Time: Friday Feb 2 @ 12pm
Location: Emerson 305
Abstract: here
Hope to see lots of you there!