# Week of October 21 October 20, 2019 ## Tenure-Track Position in Phonology or Phonetics The Department of Linguistics at Harvard University seeks to make a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of phonology or phonetics. Details may be found [here](https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/9274). Please contact [Arlene Navarro](mailto:arlenenavarro@fas.harvard.edu) for more details. ### GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop [Mark Janse](https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/mark.janse) (Department of Linguistics, Ghent University and Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University) will be giving a two part talk series. - The first part, "[From Katpatuka to Ionanistan, The Rise, Demise and Reawakening of Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek),](/file_url/649)" is hosted by the Harvard Classics Department and will be on **Monday, October 21** at **5:30 pm** in **William James Hall 105**. It will be followed by the documentary film *Last Words.* - The second part, "[Linguistics Convergence in Asia Minor, The Internal Development of Agglutinative Inflections in Cappadocian Greek,](/file_url/650)" is hosted by the GSAS Workshop in Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop and will be on **Tuesday, October 22** at **5:30pm** in **Boylston 237**. ### Harvard at NELS 50 The following members of Harvard linguistics will be presenting at [50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 50)](https://nels50.mit.edu/) at MIT, from October 25th - 27th: - [Kathryn Davidson](/people/kathryn-davidson): ["Is "experimental" a gradable predicate?"](https://nels50.mit.edu/sites/default/files/abstracts/Davidson%20Abstract_0.pdf) (invited speaker.) Friday, October 25 - [Teodora Mihoc](https://scholar.harvard.edu/tmihoc/home): "[Ignorance and anti-negativity in the grammar: \[or/some\] and modified numerals](https://nels50.mit.edu/sites/default/files/abstracts/290-Mihoc.pdf)." Friday, October 25 - [Christos Christopolous](/people/christos-christopoulos) and [Stanislao Zompi](http://linguistics.mit.edu/user/zompi/) (MIT): "[Strong Case Containment is too strong: two arguments from defaults](https://nels50.mit.edu/sites/default/files/abstracts/125-ChristopoulosZompi__0.pdf)." Saturday, October 26 - Masakazu Kuno (Harvard linguistics alumnus): "[Minimalism Meets Mathematics: Movement as Factorization](https://nels50.mit.edu/sites/default/files/abstracts/391-Kuno.pdf)" (poster.) Saturday, October 26 - [Dorothy Ahn](/people/dorothy-ahn): "[ASL IX to locus as a modifier](https://nels50.mit.edu/sites/default/files/abstracts/79-Ahn_0.pdf)." Sunday, October 27 ### Department of Linguistics Open House Our Fall open house will be on Wednesday, October 23 from 5-7pm on the 3rd floor of Boylston Hall. This is a chance for prospective concentrators to come talk to current concentrators, graduate students, and faculty in linguistics. ### Ahn at 27th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference College Fellow [Dorothy Ahn](/people/dorothy-ahn) gave a poster presentation titled "Anaphoric bare nouns: Japanese and Korean vs. other languages" at the [27th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference](http://www.mikebarrie.com/JK/jk27.html), held on October 18-19 at [Sogang University](http://wwwe.sogang.ac.kr/) in Seoul, South Korea. --- Attachments- [ description rise\_demise\_and\_reawakening\_of\_cappadocian.docx ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/linguistics/files/rise_demise_and_reawakening_of_cappadocian.docx) - [ description linguistic\_convergence\_in\_asia\_minor.docx ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5001/files/linguistics/files/linguistic_convergence_in_asia_minor.docx) --- Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)