# Week of March 31, 2014 March 30, 2014 ### ![logo_ie.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/linguistics/files/logo_ie.png?itok=bWXE-Qs1) GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop: **Alexander Forte** & **Caley Smith** (Harvard University) *[The Parallel Reception of Traditional Poetry in Early Philosophy](/event/indo-european-alexander-sw-forte-caley-smith-harvard-university)* Monday, March 31 | 5:15pm | Boylston 303 ### Linguistics Department Spring Open House The [Linguistics Department Spring Open House](/event/linguistics-department-open-house-0) for prospective concentrators will take place on Tuesday, April 1 from 4:00 to 6:00pm in the department lounge. Refreshments will be provided. Everyone is very much welcome to attend and mingle! ![2014_spring_open_house_flyer.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/linguistics/files/2014_spring_open_house_flyer.jpg?itok=k43iZlbp) ### Harvard at PLC 38 **[Jenny Lee](/people/so-yeon-jenny-lee)** presented her work ["Constructed dual in Hopi: A cyclic insertion approach"](http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc38/schedule.html) at the 38th [Penn Linguistics Colloquium](http://www.ling.upenn.edu/Events/PLC/plc38/) (PLC) on Saturday, March 29. ### MIT Colloquium The referenced media source is missing and needs to be re-embedded. **[Adamantios Gafos](http://www.haskins.yale.edu/staff/gafos.html)** (Haskins Laboratories, Universität Potsdam) Friday, April 4 | 3:30-5pm | [32-141](http://web.mit.edu/philos/www/32-141.html) ### Thesis Defense **[Chi-Ming (Louis) Liu](http://cmluyiliu.wordpress.com/)[ ](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~nicolae/Andreea_Nicolae/Home.html)**[*A Modular Theory of Radical Pro Drop* ](/file_url/221)Tuesday, April 8 | 3pm-5:30pm | Boylston 303 **[Laura Grestenberger](http://scholar.harvard.edu/grestenberger/)** [*Feature Mismatch: Deponency in Indo-European Languages* ](/file_url/220)Wednesday, April 23 | 2pm-5pm | Sever 213 **[Lauren Eby Clemens](http://people.fas.harvard.edu/~lreby/)**[ ](/file_url/221)Wednesday, April 30 | 11am-2pm | Boylston 303 Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)