Monday, November 4 | 5:15-6:30pm | Boylston Hall 3rd floor
The Department of Linguistics Open House is today. We hope to see you there!
Universals Reading Group/Polinsky Lab Meeting
Norbert Corver (UiL-OTS, Utrecht university) Small but Intense Wednesday, November 6 | 5:15-7pm | Boylston 303
Please go to the Universals Workshop page for the abstract and possible updates on the location.
Language Universals and Linguistic Diversity Colloquium
Paul de Lacy (Rutgers) What counts as evidence for universals? Thursday, November 7 | 5:00pm | Boylston 303
My talk is about Generative theories of the phonological module (PhM). I will identify some core requirements that such theories impose on evidence for the PhM, then discuss several cases where these evidential requirements are not met. I will then argue that these cases are fairly representative of work in phonological theory, with the consequence that an unknown (but presumably large) number of claims about PhM universals have an uncertain status.
GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop
P. Oktor Skjaervo (Harvard University, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) Unveiling the Past: The Decipherment of the Old and Middle Persian Scripts Friday, November 8 | 4:30pm | Boylston 103
