Week of November 27
Harvard Linguistics Talk Series
The last colloquium talk of this semester will take place on Friday, Dec 1 at 12pm, and our invited speaker is Lisa Davidson (NYU). Details are as follows:
Title: The phonetic details of word-level prosodic structure: evidence from Hawaiian
Time: Friday, Dec 1 @ 12 - 1:30 pm
Location: Emerson 305
Abstract: here
FoRiM Talk
This year’s last FoRiM meeting will feature a special talk by Yiannis Katochoritis (MIT) & Magdalena Lohninger (University of Vienna) on A/A’ properties of voice in a variety of Austronesian languages. Details are as follows:
Title: Somewhere between topics and subjects: a typology of Austronesian pivots
Time: Friday, Dec 1 @ 3 - 4:30 pm
Location: Boylston 303
Abstract: here
GSAS Workshop in Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Talk
The third and final GSAS Workshop in Indo-European and Historical Linguistics talk of the semester is taking place on Thursday, November 30 @ 5 PM EST. Harvard Linguistics graduate Niels Torben Kuhlert will be presenting. Please note that this talk will be held over zoom, although on-campus attendees are welcome to gather in Boylston Hall 303. Please find all the information below:
Speaker: Niels Torben Kuhlert (Harvard University)
Time: Thursday November 30 @ 5 PM EST
Location: Zoom or Boylston Hall 303
Title: Capèsset? Understanding Morphomes and Analogy across Romance
Abstract: here
Zoom: Please ask the workshop coordinator Anabelle Caso for the Zoom link.
Phi Beta Kappa Senior 48
Two of our concentrators -- Blake Lopez and Danielle Novak -- are elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Senior 48 this year!
Blake has also been awarded this year's Lucy Allen Paton prize, given each year to one student in the senior class "who shall be deemed by [their] instructors to have manifested … the greatest promise in the Humanities or the Fine Arts, or who has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa because of … proficiency in these subjects."
Congratulations, Blake and Danielle!
Franich at TAI 2023
Katie Franich gave a keynote speech at The 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2023) titled ‘Exploring the Relationship Between Gesture and Pitch ‘Prominence’ From the Perspective of African Tonal Languages’ on Nov 19 in Singapore. Congrats, Katie!
Caso and Ó Muirthile winning the LSA Student Abstract Award
The 2024 LSA Annual Meeting awards were announced last week. Our own Anabelle Caso and Oisín Ó Muirthile (Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University) won the 3rd prize for the Student Abstract Award, with their paper titled ‘Secondary Predication in Irish and the syntax-prosody interface’. Instituted in 2010, the Student Abstract Award recognizes the best abstract submitted by a student for a paper or poster presentation at each year’s LSA Annual Meeting. Congrats, Anabelle and Oisín!
