#  Week of October 31, 2016 

 





October 30, 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.

###  GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop

**Benjamin W. Fortson IV (Michigan University)  
"An Image of the Evening Star in Darkness" (on Latin nouns with nominative singular in *-gō* and genitive singular in *-ginis*)  
Friday, November 4 | 3:30pm | Boylston 105

###  LingedIn

**[Lena Borise](/people/lena-borise)**  
Word order and prosody: What can we learn from Georgian focus?  
Friday, November 4 | 12pm | Boylston 303

### Beatbox Phonetics

Harry Yeff, an award-winning beatboxer who spoke recently in Lecturer Aleksei Nazarov's "Sounds of Language" (Linguistics 105) course, discusses the value linguistic phonetics has for the art of beatboxing [in the Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/10/a-beat-all-his-own/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10.28.2016%20(1)).

### Charnavel at Stony Brook

Assistant Professor **[Isabelle Charnavel](https://sites.google.com/site/isabellecharnavel/)** gave two invited talks at Stony Brook University on October 25th and 26th. The first, "[Causes for Judges](https://linguistics.stonybrook.edu/events/frontiers.talk.series/2016/10/25/isabelle.charnavel)", was given as part of the Frontiers talk series. The second, "[Dance your Mind: steps toward a generative theory of dance cognition](https://linguistics.stonybrook.edu/events/lamerg.distinguished.lecture.series/2016/10/26/isabelle.charnavel)", was given as part of Stony Brook University's Language, Music and Emotion Research Group's Distinguished Lecture Series*.*



 

 

 



 

 

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