Week of March 13, 2017

Spring Break Begins

Harvard's Spring Break begins March 13 and ends March 17. Enjoy the break!

Upcoming Department Talks, Spring 2017

Jonathan Bobaljik (University of Connecticut)
March 24 @ 4:00
Boylston Hall 105

Title: On Some Universals? of Case and Agreement

Hamida Demirdache (University of Nantes, France)
March 31 @ 4:00
Title and location tba

Susi Wurmbrand (University of Connecticut)
April 7 @ 4:00
Title and location tba

Linguistics Department Mind, Brain, Behavior (MBB) award announcements

Kate Davidson has recently been awarded a grant from MBB with Co-PI Jesse Snedeker (Psychology) which will support Annemarie Kocab’s post doctoral research on linguistic complexity  in Nicaraguan Sign Language at the M&M Lab next year.

Gennaro Chierchia has received a “small” MBB grant through which he will sponsor a visiting position in the fall for our own alumnus Greg Scontras (UC Irvine) who will co-teach with Gennaro and Stuart Shieber (Harvard Computer Science) a seminar on the linguistic significance of the probabilistic lambda-calculus. 

Congratulations to both Kate and Gennaro!