#  Week of October 24, 2016 

 





October 23, 2016

 

 

### Senior Faculty Syntax Opening

The Department of Linguistics at Harvard University seeks to make a tenured appointment at the rank of Professor in the area of syntax. Details may be found [here](https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/7102). Please contact [Cheryl Murphy](mailto:Clmurphy@fas.harvard.edu) for more details.

###  Language Universals Workshop 

**Byron Ahn** (Princeton)  
[Deep Universals in Reflexive Syntax](/event/unilab-byron-ahn-princeton)  
Friday, October 28 | 3:30pm | Boylston 105

###  LingedIn

**[Giuseppe Ricciardi](/people/giuseppe-ricciardi)**  
The non-temporal use of the Italian future morphology  
Friday, October 28 | 12pm | Boylston 303

### Harvard at AMP

The following talks and posters featured Harvard presenters at the [2016 Annual Meeting of Phonology](https://amp2016usc.wordpress.com/) that took place at USC in Los Angeles, October 21 - 23.

- **[Gašper Beguš](http://scholar.harvard.edu/begus) - "**Inherently weighted constraints" (poster)
- Associate Professor **[Kevin Ryan](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kevinryan/) - "**Stress-modulated quantitative meter" (talk) and "Grammatical factors in Tommo So tone-tune mapping" (talk with Laura McPherson)
- Lecturer **[Aleksei Nazarov](/people/aleksei-nazarov)** - "Learning parametric stress without domain-specific mechanisms" (talk with Gaja Jarosz)

### Harvard at JK24

**[Dorothy Ahn](http://scholar.harvard.edu/dorothyahn)** presented her poster titled "Demonstratives: Anaphoric or Deictic? Evidence from Japanese and Korean" at [The 24th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK24)](http://pj.ninjal.ac.jp/jk2016/), which took place at National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, in Tokyo, Japan, October 14-16.

### Davidson Presents at Toronto

Assistant Professor **[Kathryn Davidson](https://sites.google.com/site/kathryndavidson/)** gave an invited talk titled "Quotation, Classifier Predicates, and a Formal Semantics for Event Demonstrations" at the University of Toronto on October 21.



 

 

 



 

 

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