2019 Mar 01 Indo-European: Justin Miller (Harvard Department of the Classics) 5:00pm to 6:30pm Location: Boylston Hall Room 335Title: Why was six afraid of seven? Numeral reconstruction in Proto-Akkadian and its implications for the Affricate Hypothesis
2019 Mar 01 Circle: Ljljiana Progovac (Wayne State University) 3:30pm to 5:00pm Location: Boylston Hall Room 105 Title: Gradual evolution of some key postulates of syntax: Making sense of small clauses, middles, islands, exocentrics, and other syntactic shortcomings Abstract Read more about Circle: Ljljiana Progovac (Wayne State University)
2019 Feb 22 Circle: Diti Bhadra (Harvard) 3:30pm to 5:00pm Location: Boylston Hall Room 105 Title: Questions are multidimensional: evidence from perspective-sensitivity Abstract Read more about Circle: Diti Bhadra (Harvard)
2019 Feb 15 Universals: Alexander Sasha Rush (Harvard) 3:30pm to 5:00pm Location: Sever Hall Room 206 Title: Controllable Text Generation Abstract Read more about Universals: Alexander Sasha Rush (Harvard)
2019 Feb 08 Indo-European: Nadav Asraf, Harvard University 5:00pm to 6:30pm Location: Boylston Hall Room 335 Title: Noun Incorporation in Ancient Greek?
2019 Feb 01 Indo-European: Vagheesh Narasimhan (Reich Laboratory, Harvard Medical School) 5:30pm to 7:00pm Location: Boylston Hall Room 335 Title: Understanding the movement of people through ancient DNA and the implications for linguistic change in a time before written records
2019 Feb 01 Universals: John Hale (University of Georgia) 3:00pm to 5:30pm Location: Boylston Hall Room 105Title: Modeling fMRI time courses with linguistic structure