Week of November 17, 2014
Polinsky Lab Meeting
Reading Group 3: "Universals in comparative morphology : suppletion, superlatives, and the structure of words"
Wednesday, November 19 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)
GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop
Andrés Enrique-Arias (University of the Balearic Islands)
On the Origin of si as an Interrogative Particle in Old Spanish
Friday, November 21 | 4:30pm | Boylston 104
Language Universals Workshop
Andrew Nevins (University College London)
The Rise and Fall of the L-Shaped Morphome: Diachronic and Experimental Studies
Monday, November 24 | 5:30pm | Boylston 303
Harvard at SNEWS
Two students gave talks at the 2014 Southern New England Workshop in Semantics (SNEWS 2014) which was held at UMass Amherst on Saturday, November 15.
- Zuzanna Fuchs: Towards a Focus Analysis of Almost Wackernagel Clitics in Wakhi
- Alex Klapheke: An Alternative Semantics for English Aspectual Particles
Welcome, Class of 2017!
The Department is delighted to welcome the following Class of '17 members as the new concentrators in Linguistics:
- Isabella Chiu
- Gabriela Diaz-Quinones
- Ian Maynor
- Alice Newkirk
- Betty Richardson
- John (Jake) Seaton
- Andrew Sheeler
HGSL Photo Contest Results
HGSL announced the two winners of the departmental Photo Contest:
- Edwin Tsai, the author of the picture 'Paradise' (graduate student)
- Carl Rogers, the author of the picture 'Itchy' (undergraduate student)
The winning pictures will be printed and displayed in the departmental lounge. Congratulations, Edwin and Carl!
Assistant Professor Position Announcement
For more information, please visit the academic positions website.