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Week of October 28, 2013
Department of Linguistics Open House Monday, November 4 | 5:15-6:30pm | Boylston Hall 3rd floor The Department of Linguistics Open House will take place next Monday. If you are interested in concentrating in linguistics or simply curious about the field...

Week of October 21, 2013
Harvard at WeCIEC 2013 Laura Grestenberger will be presenting her work "‘Split deponency’ in Proto-Indo-European" at the 25th annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, October 25–26. Harvard at NELS 44 The following talks featured Harvard presenters at the...

Week of October 14, 2013
Linguistics Circle Workshop Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini (University of Arizona) Steps to the Physics of Language Thursday, October 17 | 5:30-7pm | Boylston 303 (Please note the different date and location) The study of complex systems seems to affirm the...

Week of October 7, 2013
Linguistics Circle Workshop Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS; NYU) Insights from Sign Language (ASL and LSF) Friday, October 11 | 4-5:30pm | Boylston 103 We argue that sign language data (here: ASL and LSF) can bring crucial insights into...

Week of September 30, 2013
Harvard at CSSP 2013 Edwin Tsai and Ken Mai presented "Prohibiting Inverse Scope: An Experimental Study of Chinese vs. English" ( Gregory Scontras, Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai, Kenneth Mai and Maria Polinsky) at the Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris, or...

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...

Week of September 16, 2013
MIT to Hold M@90 to celebrate Morris Halle's 90th birthday The MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy will hold M@90, a 2-day workshop on Friday, September 20 and Saturday, September 21, on the topic of Metrical Structure: Stress, Meter and...

Week of September 9, 2013
Linguists celebrate Chierchia's 60th Birthday On Friday, September 6, linguists from various parts of the country gathered in Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall to celebrate the 60th birthday of Professor Gennaro Chierchia. The surprise event, hosted by Ivano...

Week of September 2, 2013
Welcome to the Fall 2013 semester! Classes began this Tuesday, September 3. Please remember that Study Card Day is Tuesday, September 10. Additionally, mark your calendars for the Department of Linguistics' annual Fall Reception on Thursday, September 19...

Week of August 26, 2013
Welcome G1s! The Department of Linguistics would like to give a warm welcome to this year's incoming PhD students: Farewell to Departing Visitors The Department of Linguistics has been fortunate to have the following scholars with us during the 2012-2013...

Week of August 5, 2013
Polinsky in Moorea As part of a research project with Eric Potsdam (University of Florida) investigating the structure of wh-questions, Professor Maria Polinsky and graduate student Lauren Clemens recently visited the Richard B. Gump South Pacific...

Week of July 15, 2013
Congratulations to the Class of 2013! Four doctoral students and twelve undergraduates received degrees from the Department of Linguistics this year. Congratulations, grads! Hannes Fellner, Ph.D., is a post-doc researcher in the Department of Linguistics...