#  Week of January 29 

 





January 29, 2024

 

 

##  **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](http:/nels54.mit.edu/sites/default/files/documents/alstott.pdf)*

 Congrats, everyone!

   ![harvard_nels54](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/linguistics/files/harvard_nels54.jpeg?itok=CCJmuWrN) 

 

 *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](https:/linguistics.fas.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/linguistics/files/bowern_talk_abstract.pdf?m=1706540835)

 Hope to see lots of you there!



 

 

 



 

 

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