Week of Sept 2 - Welcome back!

WOLF summer field trip 

This summer, a team from the WOLF Lab completed a fieldwork expedition at the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe in Texas. They lived on the reservation for 3 weeks, collecting around 150 hours of recordings with native speakers of Alabama that will be used for language documentation and preservation efforts. The team included Tanya Bondarenko, Jacob Kodner (PhD student), Jacob Fernandes (BA '24), as well as Ava Silva, Jackson Herrera, and Madeleine Riskin-Kutz (Harvard College students).

WOLF in Texas

 

 

Kodner at SICOGG26/WAFL18

PhD student Jacob Kodner gave a talk on Korean syntax-prosody at SICOGG26/WAFL18, titled 'Matching Intonational Phrases in Korean: A Flexible Approach' on 8/23 in Jeonju, South Korea. Well done, Jacob! 

Kodner in South Korea

 

 

Rimon at LeiBieCos

PhD student Nofar Rimon presented at LeiBieCos, a comparative syntax conference in Leiden, The Netherlands. The talk was titled 'Subject to Change', looking at the lack of agreement between unaccusative verbs and their internal subjects in VS order. Congrats, Nofar! 

Rimon in Leiden

 

 

Welcome, new lecturers, preceptors and staff!

This year, we have two new lecturers joining our department!!! They are: 

  • Kaden Holladay, who graduated from UMass Amherst and will be teaching LING 112: Syntactic Theory (Fall 24), LING 102: Sentence Structure and LING 106: Knowledge of Meaning (Spring 25). 

kaden_holladay
  • Robert Xu, who recently graduated from Stanford University and will be teaching LING 103: Language and Society (Fall 24), LING 83: Language, Structure and Cognition as well as LING 152: Prosody and Intonation (Spring 25). 

Robert Xu

 

Our ASL team has also expanded, with Frances Conlin being the Senior Preceptor (the department's first), Nora Owen (newly joining us from Cornell) and Dr. Nozomi Tomita (who was already here as a postdoc) being preceptors, as well as Stetson Stanger as the coordinator. Welcome!! 

 

Welcome, new G1s and visitors!

Five PhD students are joining the departments as G1s this year! They are: 

  • Anup Dhamala, historical linguist
  • Hailang Jiang, phonologist
  • Jane Loney, syntactician
  • Hrefna Svavarsdottir, syntactician
  • Yiqian (Alexis) Wang, semanticist 

Also, the department is hosting a visitor: Yixiweisa (Atsok) Acuo from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Nankai University in China will be with us for a year. 

Welcome to Harvard Linguistics, everyone! 

 

 

 

 

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