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. Please contact Cheryl Murphy for more details.

Department Fall Reception

The Linguistics Department welcomes all undergraduates, graduates, faculty and visitors to the Department's fall reception on Thursday, September 8th at 5PM on the third floor of Boylston Hall. 

Welcome G1s!

The Linguistics Department is delighted to welcome this year's incoming students to the PhD program:

	Shannon Bryant graduated with a BA in English from the University of Georgia. As an undergraduate, she centered her studies on stylistics, incorporating linguistic theory into literary analysis. Now, her primary academic interests include semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition, and language processing. In her spare time, Shannon enjoys hiking, aimless wandering, and knitting scarves for winter.
	Yingtong Liu graduated from Utrecht University with a MA degree in linguistics. Before that, she did her BA study in Renmin University of China. Her MA thesis investigates the link between reflexivization and binding in Chinese languages, with a decomposition perspective of Chinese anaphors. Her current research interests lie in syntax, lexicon semantics and formal semantics. In her spare time, she enjoys music, hiking and movies.
	Giuseppe Ricciardi graduated from University of Bari with a BA in Philosophy, from University of Genova with a MA in Philosophy of Language and Mathematical Logic and from University of Toronto with a MA in Linguistics. His MA at University of Toronto investigates into the so-called 'epistemic use' of the Italian future morphology. His academic interests include formal semantics and pragmatics, theory of argumentation, syntax-semantics interface, philosophy of linguistics and any other research area that aims to understand the relationship between language and reasoning. In his spare time, Giuseppe enjoys walking at a fast pace, practicing a light physical activity in the gym and having conversations that help him to regain his mental energies.
	Zachary Rothstein-Dowden holds an MA in medieval history from Central European University and a BA in Classics and Indology from Brown. He is interested in Indo-European historical linguistics and especially historical morphology.  He also plays cello and enjoys going to concerts in the Boston area.