Week of October 17 (NELS, WeCIEC, events at Harvard and around town)

Hello Again! 

The NELS42 preliminary program is now available. Congratulations to Harvard’s Nina Radkevich who will present “On locality in contextual allomorphy: Evidence from Mayan” and to Lauren Eby Clemens who will present with Michael Becker (University of Massachusetts) and Andrew Nevins (University College London) “A richer model is not always more accurate: The case of French and Portuguese plurals.” Congratulations also to Alexander (Sasha) Nikolaev who will be giving a talk at the 23rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference (WeCIEC). For a sneak peak of Sasha's talk, come to Friday's meeting of the Indo-European Workshop (see below).

Below you will find a list of this week's linguistics events at Harvard and around town. Don't forget to write us here or here if you would like to see something posted to our blog.

All the best,

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This week at Harvard…

On Monday, October 17, 4:00 p.m. in Boylston 303, Gerardo Fernandez-Salgueiro will present “Null subjects in syntactic theory: On the interaction between tense, agreement, and movement,” as part of Professor Jim Huang’s syntax seminar.

On Wednesday, October 19, 5:00 p.m. in Boylston 303, Greg Scontras will lead the Polinsky Lab meeting in a discussion of existentials in Austronesian with implications for Mayan.   

On Friday, October 21, 4:00 p.m. in Boylston 103, Alexander Nikolaev will present “Indogermanische Dikter-sprache”: Showing Praise in Greek and Indo-European,” as part of the Indo-European Workshop.

Around town...

At MIT, Monday, October 17, 5:00 p.m. in 32D-831 "The phonetic specification of contour tones: The rising tone in Mandarin" Edward Flemming, MIT

At BU, Tuesday, October 18, 5:00 p.m. in CAS 224 "Human and Linguistic Diversity: Number and Geometry in Mundurukú" Pierre Pica, CNRS Paris