Week of September 23, 2013
GSAS Indo-European Workshop:
Timothy Barnes (Department of the Classics, Harvard University)
The genesis of the hexameter reconsidered
Friday, September 27 | 4pm | Boylston 103
Certain peculiarities of the Greek hexameter suggest that this verse is the outcome of an earlier verse form which has undergone various modifications. Several suggestions have been made regarding possible prototypes. The most popular current theory, that of Berg, as modified by Tichy, is inadequate. In my talk I propose a further modification to the Berg-Tichy model. My model accounts for the characteristic internal articulations of the hexameter in a much more straightforward way.
See the full schedule on the IE Workshop webpage.
Universals Reading Group/Polinsky Lab Meeting:
Wednesday, September 25 | 5:15-7pm | Boylston 303
Lewis & Phillips (2013) Aligning grammatical theories and language processing models
Discussion led by Bradley Larson
See the full schedule on the Universals Workshop webpage.
Lauren Eby Clemens Wins Teaching Award
Lauren Eby Clemens has won a Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning for her Spring 2013 course Ling 241r, "Practicum in Linguistics." Congratulations, Lauren!
Memorial for Calvert Watkins,Victor H. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus
There will be a memorial observance for Calvert Watkins, Victor H. Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus, on Friday, October 4, at 2:00 PM in Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street. Professor Watkins, a giant figure in Indo-European linguistics and poetics, was a past president of the Linguistic Society of America and for many years chair of the Department of Linguistics.
- Harvard Gazette Obituary
- Inaugural Whatmough Lecture on April 19, 2006
Calvert Watkins: "The Golden Bowl. Thoughts on the new Sappho and its Asianic Background"
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