#  Week of November 17, 2014 

 





November 16, 2014

 

 

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Polinsky Lab Meeting 

[Reading Group 3](http://pollab.fas.harvard.edu/?q=node/381)**: "Universals in comparative morphology : suppletion, superlatives, and the structure of words"**  
Wednesday, November 19 | 5:15pm | 2 Arrow Street (4th floor conference room)

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GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

**[Andrés Enrique-Arias](http://uib-es.academia.edu/AndresEnriqueArias)** (University of the Balearic Islands)  
[On the Origin of *si* as an Interrogative Particle in Old Spanish](/event/indo%E2%80%93european-andr%C3%A9s-enrique-arias-university-balearic-islandsharvard-university)  
Friday, November 21 | 4:30pm | Boylston 104

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Language Universals Workshop 

**[Andrew Nevins](https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=AINEV65)** (University College London)  
[The Rise and Fall of the L-Shaped Morphome: Diachronic and Experimental Studies](/event/universals-andrew-nevins-uc-london)  
Monday, November 24 | 5:30pm | Boylston 303

### Harvard at SNEWS

Two students gave talks at the [2014 Southern New England Workshop in Semantics](http://people.umass.edu/jmendiaaldam/snews/program.html) (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)  
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- **Carl Rogers**, the author of the picture '**Itchy**' (undergraduate student)  
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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](https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/5716).



 

 

 



 

 

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