#  June Update 

 





June 03, 2017

 

 

###  Rothstein-Dowden Wins Bowdoin Greek Prize

 Congratulations to [Zach Rothstein-Dowden](/people/zachary-rothstein-dowden), who has won the Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essay in Greek, with his work entitled "Encomium of Ludwig van Beethoven".

###  Fellner Wins START Prize

 Congratulations to [Hannes Fellner](https://hannesafellner.academia.edu), an alumnus of this department (PhD 2013), who has recently been awarded the START Prize, the most prestigious and highest-endowed grant for young researchers in Austria. The title of his project is "The Characters that Shaped the Silk Road: A Database and Digital Paleography of Tarim Brahmi".

###  Harvard at TEAL-11

 The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the [International Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics](http://conf.ling.sinica.edu.tw/TEAL11/en/Home), which took place at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 3-4:

 [Yuyin He](/people/yuying-he): A Glimpse of Mandarin Obligatory Control.

 Professor [C.-T. James Huang](https://scholar.harvard.edu/ctjhuang): On Finiteness and the Architecture of Complements in Verbal and Nominal Domains.

###  Harvard at CLS 53

 [Gašper Beguš](https://scholar.harvard.edu/begus) presented his work titled "Historical Probabilities of Alternations" at the 53rd meeting of the [Chicago Linguistic Society](http://chicagolinguisticsociety.org), which took place in Chicago from May 25th-27th.

###  Harvard at ECIEC 36

 The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the [36th East Coast Indo-European Conference](http://linguistics.cornell.edu/content/cornell-host-east-coast-indo-european-conference), which took place at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, from June 2-4:

 [Julia Sturm](/people/julia-sturm): \*w > h in Attic Greek.

 Professor [Jay Jasanoff](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~jasanoff/index.html): Palatable Thorns.

###  Ahn's Article in The Linguistic Review

 [Dorothy Ahn](/people/dorothy-ahn)'s article "[Measure constructions with relative measures: Towards a syntax of non-conservative construals](https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/tlir.ahead-of-print/tlr-2017-0001/tlr-2017-0001.xml)" (written with Uli Sauerland) has been published in The Linguistic Review.



 

 

 



 

 

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