Week of November 5, 2012

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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 RadkevichAllison 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