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Week of August 10
We're pleased to announce the Ph.D. defenses of: Jack Rabinovitch "The Speech Report: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation into the Compositional Semantics of Reported Speech" Tuesday, August 11, 2026 1:00-3:30pm 1st Floor Boylston Hall - Fong Auditorium...

Week of Apr 27
Hande Sevgi Thesis Defence Hande Sevgi is defending her thesis ' Manner Modification Across Modalities: Insights from Gesture, Sign, and Spoken Language' this Thursday, April 30 at 10:00–12:30 in Boylston 105. Refreshments immediately following the...

Week of Apr 20
Daria Bikina Thesis Defence Daria Bikina is defending her thesis ' Fine-tuning (in)definiteness in the absence of articles: Experimental investigation of Russian' this Wednesday, April 22 at 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm in Sever 202. A hybrid option is available...

Week of Apr 13
19th Annual Joshua and Verona Taylor Whatmough Lecture The Department of Linguistics is proud to present the 19th Annual Joshua and Verona Taylor Whatmough Lecture. This year, our speaker is Diane Lillo-Martin, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of...

Week of Apr 6
Bondarenko at UMass Amherst On Friday March 27, our faculty Tanya Bondarenko gave a colloquium talk at UMass Amherst titled 'In favor of Equality Semantics: an argument from Russian polarity subjunctives'. Congrats, Tanya! GSAS Indo-European & Historical...

Week of Mar 30
4th Annual Graduate Student Workshop The Department of Linguistics hosted its 4th Annual Graduate Student Workshop last Friday, March 27, 2026. The workshop brought together graduate students and faculties for a day of short talks, discussion, and...

Week of Mar 23
Julie Anne Legate at the Harvard Linguistics Colloquium Talk Series Many thanks to Julie Anne Legate for a brilliant Harvard Linguistics Colloquium talk on 13 March! In her talk ‘Bridge Verbs within a Null Theory of Movement’, she drew on corpus and...

Week of Mar 9
ECO-5 at Harvard The Department of Linguistics at Harvard held this year's ECO-5 conference on Saturday, March 7. Three students from our department gave wonderful presentations: Nofar Rimon (G3): Understanding Kazakh '-men': Comitatives revisited Jane...

Week of Mar 2
Beguš visiting LING 10/HUM 16 Gašper Beguš (faculty at Berkeley, Harvard PhD 2018) visited the department to talk about "Language, AI, and non-Humans" in Professor Davidson's LING 10/HUM 16: Language course. Students learned many ways in which scientific...

Week of Feb 16
BASL talk Discover the rich culture and history of the Black Deaf community and Black American Sign Language (BASL) with Professor Franklin Jones, Jr. from Boston University, who will be delivering a lecture followed by a Q&A session on Monday, February...

Week of Feb 2
Welcome! Claire Rong , a Ph.D. student at l'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, is joining us this semester as a Fellow. Welcome to the Department of Linguistics at Harvard! LangCog The first LangCog meeting of the semester will be Tuesday, February 3rd...

Week of Jan 26
PhonLab in Gazette Harvard Gazette featured Assistant Professor Kathryn Franich and members of the PhonLab, including Xiaotian (Alice) Wang (PhD student), Lexi Williams (’26), Sam Lyczkowski (’26), in an article on language loss and displacement in...