Harvard Linguistics Circle

2020 Sep 25

Circle: Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute)

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

via Zoom link

Title: Ambiguity avoidance vs. expectation sensitivity in ditransitive differential argument marking

2019 Nov 22

Circle: Paula Fenger (UConn/Harvard)

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Boylston Hall Room 105

Title: Words within words: A cross-linguistic look at auxiliary formation Read more about Circle: Paula Fenger (UConn/Harvard)

2020 Feb 21

Circle: Vera Gribanova (Stanford)

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Sever 102

Title: Head movement, ellipsis, and identity: the view from Uzbek

2019 Feb 21

Linguistics Circle: Vera Gribanova (Stanford)

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

TBA

2019 Oct 18

Linguistics Circle: Samuel Jay Keyser (MIT)

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Boylston Hall Room 105

Title: The Mental Life of Modernism

Abstract

2019 Sep 27

Linguistics Circle: Uli Sauerland (ZAS/Harvard)

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Boylston 105

2019 Sep 20

Linguistics Circle: Gunnar Lund

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Boylston Hall Room 303

Title: Pluractionality and progressive aspect

Abstract

2019 May 03

Circle: Masoud Jasbi (Harvard)

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Sever 106

Title: openlinguistics.org : a platform for recording and sharing informal judgment data

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

2019 Mar 07

Circle: Ashwini Deo (Ohio State)

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location:

Boylston Hall Room 103

Title: Marathi temporal marking: A window into the lexical encoding of tense meanings

Abstract

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

2018 Nov 16

Circle and Universals: Sam Tilsen (Cornell)

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Boylston Hall 105

Title: Speech rhythm is an epiphenomenon of gestural selection

Abstract

2018 Nov 02

Circle/MIT Colloquium at MIT: Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Location:

MIT 32-155

Talk co-hosted with MIT, see also 11/1/18 mini-course at Harvard

Title: Micro-variation in discourse particles: From St’át’imcets to German (joint work with Henry Davis)

Abstract

2018 Nov 01

Circle: Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

2 Arrow Street, Room 420

Mini-course co-hosted with MIT, see also 1/2/18 (talk at MIT)

Title: Finding semantic building blocks: Tense, aspect and evidentials

Abstract

2018 Oct 05

Circle: Isabelle Charnavel (Harvard)

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Emerson Hall 108 *see special Yard entry procedure below

Title: Title: Being a judge in your own c(l)ause: Perspectival effects in causal clauses

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Abstract

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Harvard Linguistics Circle

Circle: Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute)

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Circle: Paula Fenger (UConn/Harvard)

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Circle: Vera Gribanova (Stanford)

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Linguistics Circle: Vera Gribanova (Stanford)

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Linguistics Circle: Samuel Jay Keyser (MIT)

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Linguistics Circle: Uli Sauerland (ZAS/Harvard)

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Linguistics Circle: Gunnar Lund

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Circle: Masoud Jasbi (Harvard)

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Circle: Ljljiana Progovac (Wayne State University)

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Circle: Ashwini Deo (Ohio State)

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Circle: Diti Bhadra (Harvard)

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Circle and Universals: Sam Tilsen (Cornell)

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Circle/MIT Colloquium at MIT: Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)

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Circle: Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia)

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Circle: Isabelle Charnavel (Harvard)

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