Week of October 24, 2011 (Welcome back Dr. Ott, at Harvard and around town)

Greetings! We're glad to welcome back recent Harvard graduate Dennis Ott, a postdoc at the Center for Language and Cognition at the University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen). He will be giving a Ling-Lunch at MIT this week (see below for details). 

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 Tuesday, October 25, 4:00 p.m. at the Polinsky Language Science Lab (2 Arrow Street), the Mayan Meeting will discuss intonation. For more information email Pedro Mateo Pedro here. 

On Wednesday, October 26, 5:00 p.m. in Boylston 303, I-Ta "Chris" Hsieh will present "On the Non-Licensing of NPIs in the Only-FocusOn the Non-Licensing of NPIs in the Only-Focus,” as part of the GSAS workshop: Language Universals and Linguistic Fieldwork.

Around town...

At MIT, Monday, October 24, 5:00 p.m. in 32D-831 "Morphological distance and optional harmony in Tommo So" Laura McPherson, UCLA

At MIT, Thursday, October 27, 12:30-1:45 p.m. in 32-D461 "Peripheral fragments: an ellipsis approach to dislocation" Dennis Ott, University of Groningen