Spring Term Begins

The Spring term begins on Monday, January 27, 2020.  The course registration deadline is Friday, January 31.  

Farewell to Kwon

Kyongjoon Kwon's (Sungkyunwan University) visiting scholar position in our department has ended.  Please join me in saying farewell!

Greetings to Yuan

Please join me in welcoming visiting scholar Weihua Yuan, an associate professor at the College of Chinese Language and Literature, Guangxi Normal University!

Harvard at LSA Annual Meeting

The following members of our department presented at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 2-5. 

• Yuhan Zhang: "Stress shift is proportional and vowel reduction is not deterministic -- a corpus case study of English -tion nominalization" (poster)
• Julia Sturm: "Ancient Greek Nasal-Suffix Presents in -nnū-mi" (poster)
• Tamisha Lauren Tan: "Three Types of (Mis)matching in Free Relatives" (talk), joint work with Peter Grishin (MIT)
• Tamisha Lauren Tan and Niels Torben Kühlert: "An Impersonal Look at Sakha Passives" (poster)
• Gunnar Lund: "Semantic change without semantic reanalysis"