#  Week of March 18 

 





March 18, 2024

 

 

##  **LangCog**

 The next LangCog meeting of the semester will be on **Tuesday, March 19th** from **5:30-7:00pm**! It will take place in **William James Hall, Room #1550**. Our speaker next week is [Yuhan Zhang](https://sites.google.com/view/yhzhang) (Harvard), and the title and abstract of her talk can be found below. Food will be available at the meeting, and you can find the schedule for the remainder of the semester on the LangCog [website](https://sites.harvard.edu/langcog/).

 **Title**: *Understanding language illusions*

 **Abstract**: [here](https://sites.harvard.edu/langcog/calendar_event/yuhan-zhang/)

##  **WOLF lab in the The Harvard Crimson**

 The Harvard Crimson published an article about the Alabama language project in the WOLF lab, which aims to study the grammar and lexicon of Alabama, and produce educational resources for the Alabama-Coushatta community. Check it out [here](https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/2/alabama-language-project/).

##  **Owusu's Talk** 

 [Augustina Owusu](https://www.augustinaowusu.com/) (Boston College) gave a wonderful talk entitled *Clausal determiner = propositional determiner?* at the Harvard Linguistics Colloquium on Friday, March 8. Thanks so much, Augustina!

   ![augustina_talk](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/linguistics/files/augustina.jpg?itok=tPI_e2SB) 

 

##  **Wilcox heading to Georgetown** 

 [Ethan Wilcox](https://wilcoxeg.github.io/) (PhD '22) accepted an offer to join the [Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University](https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/) as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) this fall 2024 in computational linguistics - huge congratulations to Ethan and to Georgetown!

##  **Wu receiving Merit/Graduate Society Term-Time Fellowships**

 Fourth-year graduate student Yvette Wu was awarded a Merit/Graduate Society Term-Time Research Fellowship that will allow her a release from a semester of teaching next year to conduct fieldwork on the Seediq language in Taiwan. Huge congrats to Yvette!



 

 

 



 

 

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