#  Week of January 8th 

 





January 08, 2018

 

 

###  Harvard at LSA

 The following Harvard students and faculty presented their work at the [Linguistic Society of America's annual meeting](https://www.linguisticsociety.org/node/8208/schedule), held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from January 4th-7th:

- [Gunnar Lund](/people/gunnar-lund): Concessive adverbial clauses and *even*
- Jennifer Hu: A graph-theoretic approach to comparing typologies in Parallel OT and Harmonic Serialism
- [Gašper Beguš](https://scholar.harvard.edu/begus): Disambiguating analytic and channel bias with unnatural alternations
- Anna Alsop, [Elaine Stranahan](https://scholar.harvard.edu/stranahan), and [Kathryn Davidson](https://scholar.harvard.edu/kathryndavidson): Testing contrastive inferences from suprasegmental features using offline measures
- [Zuzanna Fuchs](https://scholar.harvard.edu/zzfuchs) (with [Jenneke van der Wal](http://www.jennekevanderwal.nl)): Bantu DP structure: A little n analysis of gender

   ![harvard at lsa](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/linguistics/files/rsz_20180106_195757.jpg?itok=2X5X35sL) 

 

 Left to right: Brian Joseph, Alice Harris, Gašper Beguš, Aleksei Nazarov, Anna Alsop, Jennifer Hu, Ellen Kaisse, Corinna Kauf, and Zuzanna Fuchs. Not pictured: Gunnar Lund, Gregory Scontras.

###  Fuchs, Scontras & Polinsky's article appears in Glossa

 [Gregory Scontras](http://socsci.uci.edu/~gscontra/), [Maria Polinsky](http://ling.umd.edu/people/person/maria-polinsky/), and [Zuzanna Fuchs](https://scholar.harvard.edu/zzfuchs/home)'s article [In support of representational economy: Agreement in heritage Spanish](https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/10.5334/gjgl.164/) has been published in Glossa 3(1), 1.

###  Harvard Welcomes Dr. Diti Bhadra

 We are delighted to announce that [Dr. Diti Bhadra](http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~db621/) will join the department in the spring 2018 term as a Lecturer.

 Diti is a recent Ph.D. from Rutgers University and currently a Lecturer at Princeton and Rutgers. She works primarily on questions and evidentials, with emphasis on South Asian languages. She will be teaching Linguistics 101 (The Science of Language: An Introduction) and Linguistics 117r (Field Methods). We very much look forward to Diti’s contributions to the department’s life.



 

 

 



 

 

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