2019 Apr 29 XIV Annual Whatmough Lecture: Larry Hyman, UC Berkeley 4:00pm to 5:45pm Location: Sever Hall Room 113 Please join us for the 14th Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Lecture given by Professor Larry Hyman of the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Reception at the Harvard Faculty Club immediately following. Title: The Fall and Rise of Vowel Length in Bantu Abstract ... Read more about XIV Annual Whatmough Lecture: Larry Hyman, UC Berkeley
2019 Apr 26 Linguistics Senior Thesis Colloquium 12:00pm to 5:30pm Location: Emerson Hall Room 105All are invited to attend. Here is the program. Read more about Linguistics Senior Thesis Colloquium
2019 Apr 23 Cristina Aggazzotti, Thesis Defense 2:00pm to 4:00pm Location: CGIS South S020 - Belfer Case Study Room Title: A unified analysis of reflexives and reciprocals in synchronous tree adjoining grammar Refreshments immediately following in CGIS South S020
2019 Apr 16 Dorothy Ahn, Thesis Defense 10:00am to 12:00pm Location: Boylston Hall Room 105 Title: The determinacy scale: a competition mechanism for anaphoric expressions Refreshments immediately following at the Department of Linguistics Lounge, 3rd Floor Boylston Hall
2019 Apr 12 Indo-European: Alexander (Sasha) Nikolaev (Boston University) 5:00pm to 6:30pm Location: Boylston Hall Room 335Title: Hesiodea: 1. ἅρπαξ ‘plundering’ (Op. 356); 2. ἐπᾱλής ‘warm’ (Op. 493)
2019 Apr 05 Indo-European: Francesco Burroni, Cornell University 5:00pm to 6:30pm Location: Boylston Hall Room 335 Title: Evolutionary and Phonetic Approaches to Prominence and Rhythm: two case studies from Italian and Romance Abstract Read more about Indo-European: Francesco Burroni, Cornell University
2019 Mar 29 Universals: Charles Chang (BU) 3:30pm to 5:00pm Location: Emerson Hall Room 104 Title: Crosslinguistic overlap in bilingualism: the view from speech perception Abstract Read more about Universals: Charles Chang (BU)