Week of March 26, 2012

Hello Linguists,

Notice any new faces around the department recently? In the next few
weeks we will be visiting with prospective graduate students, so make
sure to introduce yourself! This is a busy week at Harvard Linguistics
so the rest of this entry will be devoted to keeping you on top of
what is going on.

All the best,
Your Bloglings,

This week at Harvard...

On Tuesday, March 27, 5:00 at the Polinsky Lab (2 Arrow St), the Mayan
Reading Group will meet to continue the discussion of existential
constructions in Mayan.

On Thursday, March 29, 5:00 at the Polinsky Lab (2 Arrow St), Gillian
Gallagher (New York University) will present "Speaker awareness of
non-local phonotactics in Quechua" as part of the GSAS Workshop
Language Universals and Linguistic Fieldwork.

On Friday, March 30, 3:00 in Boylston 103, Anna Maria Di Sciullo
(University of Montreal) will present the next talk in the GSAS
Workshop Linguistics Circle.

On Friday, March 30, 4:30 in Boylston 103, recent graduate of Harvard
Linguistics, Sverre Stausland Johnsen (University of Oslo) will
present "Vowel weakening in Old West Saxon" as part of the GSAS
Workshop Indo-European and Historical Linguistics.