Week of March 30, 2015

Advising Fortnight Kickoff Event

Date: Monday, March 30
Time: 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Location: Annenberg Hall

Professor Polinsky and a few students will be there to tell you more about linguistics. Drop by the Linguistics table to learn more! Our Head Tutor, Professor Polinsky, and the Assistant Head Tutor will be holding office hours during the Advising Fortnight in case you have additional questions.

Office Hours:
Head Tutor and Director of Undergraduate Study:
Dates: Thursdays, April 2 & Tuesday, April 7
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Location: Boylston Hall 314

Assistant Head Tutor: 
Dates: Wednesdays, April 1 & April 8
Time:4:00-5:00 p.m.
Location: Lounge in the Department of Linguistics, Boylston Hall third floor

Polinsky Lab Meeting 

Anita Peti-Stantić (University of Zagreb/Tufts University)
Experimental Morphosyntax of South Slavic Languages - Gender Agreement
Wednesday, April 1 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor)

Language Universals Workshop 

Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University)
The Morphosyntax of Gender and Number: Converging and Crossing
Friday, April 3 | 2pm | Boylston 303

Harvard at WCCFL 33

The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the 33rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 33) which was held at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Mar. 27 – 29.

• Laurence B-Violette: Obviating Obviation in French Ditransitive Clauses
• Isabelle Charnavel: Let You be Bound to Me (and Me to You)
• Bradley Larson (Harvard) and Alexis Wellwood (Northwestern):  A long-distance morphosyntax and semantics for comparative clauses
• Bradley Larson (Harvard), Nicholas Longenbaugh (MIT) and Maria Polinsky (Harvard): Subject/Object Parity in Niuean and the Labeling Algorithm
• Jenny Lee: Verbal morphological syncretism in an ergative language

Department Events: Spring 2015

• Spring Open House
  April 9 | 5:00-7:00pm | Boylston 3rd floor
• ECO5
  April 11
• Senior Thesis Colloquium
  April 30
• Spring Reception
  April 29 | 5:00-7:00pm | Boylston 3rd floor