Week of November 5, 2012
Open House for Prospective Concentrators
The Department of Linguistics will hold an Open House for prospective concentrators to meet members of the department and learn more about the program, including information about the various tracks within it and linguistics in non-academic careers. Refreshments will be provided.
Wednesday, November 7 | 5-6:30pm* | Department of Linguistics, Boylston Hall, 3rd Floor
5:00 | Meet & Greet |
5:20 | Welcome |
5:30 | Dave Sawicki ’12: How I use linguistics in my non-academic career |
5:45 | Professor Jay Jasanoff ’63 & members of the classes of ’13 and ’14: Why I chose to concentrate in linguistics |
6:00 | Different concentration tracks in linguistics |
6:15 | Open Q & A |
*Feel free to drop in at any point or stay for the whole event.
Polinsky Lab Meeting
Nina Radkevich, Allison Ray & Greg Scontras
Number vs. Gender: Investigating Agreement Errors in Spanish
Wednesday, November 7 | 5:15-7pm | Polinsky Lab Room 420 (Conference Room)
Language Universals Workshop
Morgan Sonderegger (McGill University)
The diachronic dynamics of English noun/verb pair stress
Thursday, November 8 | 3:30-5pm | Boylston 105
Indo-European Workshop
Moreno Mitrović (University of Cambridge)
Coordinate construction in Indo-European
Friday, November 9 | 4-6pm | Boylston 104