#  Week of May 1, 2017 

 





April 30, 2017

 

 

### Whatmough Lecture: Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS and NYU)

[Meaning in Sign, in Speech and in Gestures](/event/whatmough-lecture-xii-philippe-schlenker-nyu)  
Monday, May 1 | 4:00pm-6:00pm | Fong Auditorium, 110 Boylston Hall  
An informal reception will follow in the Harvard faculty club.

###  LingedIn

**The Students of Field Methods (117r)**  
Topics in Lugwere Linguistics: A Poster Session  
Friday, May 5 | 12pm | Boylston 303

### Harvard at WCCFL 35

The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the [35th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics](https://sites.google.com/site/wccfl35yyc/home) that took place at the University of Calgary, April 28-30.

- **[Gašper Beguš](http://scholar.harvard.edu/begus)**: A formal model of phonological typology
- **[Isabelle Charnavel](https://sites.google.com/site/isabellecharnavel/)** and **[Yujing Huang](/people/yujing-huang)**: Inanimate *ziji* and Condition A in Mandarin
- **[Isabelle Charnavel](https://sites.google.com/site/isabellecharnavel/)**: Deictic perspective and logophoric exemption from Condition A

### Congratulations, Dr. Majer!

Congratulations to **[Marek Majer](/people/marek-majer)** who has successfully defended his dissertation, "The Caland System in the North: Archaism and Innovation in Property-Concept/State Morphology in Balto-Slavic" on Friday, May 28, 2017.

   ![marek1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/linguistics/files/marek1.jpg?itok=TFcAxw9u) 

 

   ![Marek's defense](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/linguistics/files/marek2.jpg?itok=d1gqXasI) 

 



 

 

 



 

 

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