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46 results for "Whatmough Lecture"

46 results for "Whatmough Lecture"

Whatmough Lecture Overview

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The department hosts the Annual Joshua and Verona Taylor Whatmough Lecture in an area of linguistics that varies from year to year. Joshua Whatmough (1897–1964) was the founder of the Department of Linguistics at Harvard. We are pleased to present as...

Whatmough X Lecture

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X Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Guest Lecturer: Jonathan D. Bobaljik, Professor of Linguistics, University of Connecticut Title: Morphological Universals: Comparatives and Beyond

XI Annual Whatmough Lecture

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XI Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Guest Lecturer: Alec Marantz, Silver Professor of Linguistics and Psychology, New York University Title: Linguistics as Cognitive Science: Back to our Roots Abstract Flier:

IX Whatmough Lecture

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IX Annual Joshua and Verona Whatmough Guest Lecturer: Barbara Partee,Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy at UMass-Amherst. She is one of the founders of contemporary formal semantics. Title: The History of Formal...

XIV Annual Whatmough Lecture: Larry Hyman, UC Berkeley

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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...

Week of May 1

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Ian Lewis Kirby Thesis Defense "Wide meanings across narrow contexts: Sakha particles and the grammar of alternatives" Thursday, May 4, 2023 9:30 am – 11:30 am Boylston 105 Refreshments immediately following the defense in the Department of Linguistics...

XV Annual Whatmough Lecture: Caroline Heycock

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Title: The unbearable lightness of be: Some of the strange and illimunating things that happen when we use nouns as predicates Abstract ASL Interpretation will be provided Please check your email for the Zoom link. If you would like to receive a Zoom link...