Week of Sept 8

WOLF lab summer trips 

Members of the WOLF lab went on two field trips over the summer. In the first two weeks of June, Tanya Bondarenko (director of WOLF lab), Ava Silva ('27), Jackson Herrera ('27), Jacob Fernandes (BA '24, now PhD at NYU), Madeleine Riskin-Kutz (BA '25, now MPhil at Oxford), Romi Hill (PhD student at BU) went to the Alabama-Coushatta reservation. They documented various aspects of the Alabama grammar (including tone, vowel quality, morphophonological processes, agreement in transitive and ditransitive verbs, argument structure), organised workshops teaching children (middle school & high school) some basics of Alabama verb agreement, and had discussion with the elders about agreeing on the orthographic system. The lab would particularly like to thank Ava Silva who made the trip possible! 

Alabama 1
Alabama 2
Alabama 3

Four lab members also went to Tbilisi, Georgia for three weeks in July. Kaden Holladay (lecturer), Jacob Fernandes (BA '24, now PhD at NYU), Richard Luo (BA '23, now PhD at Yale) investigated clausal embedding in Georgian, selective opacity of different kinds of movement (relativization, scrambling, wh-movement), case-matching effects in wh-dependencies, and indexical shifting. 

Georgia 1
In the Georgian mountains.
Georgia 2
The farewell party in Georgia. 
Georgia 3
All photos credits to Tanya Bondarenko. 

Congrats for such a wonderful summer! 

 

Linguistics Department Fall Reception

The Department of Linguistics will hold its Fall Reception to welcome new and returning students, visitors, faculty and staff on September 11th, 5-7pm. Light refreshments will be provided on Boylston Hall, 3rd floor. See you all then! 

Linguistics Fall reception details

 

Harvard Linguistics Colloquium 2025-26

We are excited to announce the speaker line-up for the Harvard Linguistics Colloquium for the 2025-2026 academic year! Below are the speakers and talk logistics:

Talk Dates:

Venue: Fong Auditorium (= 1st floor of Boylston Hall, Room 110)

Time: 12:00-1:30PM

  • 12:00-1:00 - Talk
  • 1:00-1:30 - Q&A
  • Small cheese & cracker reception afterwards (details TBA)

See you all at the talks soon!

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