Linguistics Circle Workshop Masoud Jasbi Title: "openlinguistics.org : a platform for recording and sharing informal judgment data" Friday, May 3, 2019 | 3:30-5pm | Boylston 105

Fuchs Thesis Defense Zuzanna Fuchs "Gender in the Nominal Domain: Evidence from Bilingualism and Eye-tracking" Friday, May 3, 2019 | 10am-12pm | Boylston 105

Borise Thesis Defense Lena Borise "Phrasing is Key: The Syntax and Prosody of Focus in Georgian" Thursday, May 2, 2019 | 2-4pm | Boylston 105

XIV Annual Whatmough Lecture: Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley) "The Fall and Rise of Vowel Length in Bantu" Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley) Monday, April 29, 2019 | 4pm | Sever 113

XIV Annual Whatmough Lecture: Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley) "The Fall and Rise of Vowel Length in Bantu" Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley) Monday, April 29, 2019 | 4pm | Sever 113

Chierchia receives Guggenheim Fellowship for 2019 Haas Foundation Professor in linguistics Gennaro Chierchia has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2019, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's 95th... facebook.com/harvardlinguist…

Senior Thesis Colloquium We are delighted to announce the Senior Thesis Colloquium this year. Ten thesis writers will present their work to the audience. Everybody is welcome to join! Our thesis writers have... facebook.com/harvardlinguist…

Spring Reception Friday, April 26 The Department of Linguistics cordially invites its undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, visitors, and staff to the 2019 Spring Reception. Friday, April 26 | 5:30pm | Boylston Hall, Third Floor

Aggazzotti Thesis Defense Cristina Aggazzotti "A unified analysis of reflexives and reciprocals in synchronous tree adjoining grammar" Tuesday, April 23 | 2-5pm | CGIS South S020, the Belfer Case Study Room

Bobaljik Presenting at MIT Phonology Circle Jonathan Bobaljik "Text setting in an Itelman khodila (song)," joint work with David Koester (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Chikako Ono (Chiba University), and G.D. Zaporotskij Wednesday, April 24 | 5:30-6:30pm | MIT 32-D831

Language Universals Workshop Ellie Pavlick (Brown University) "What should constitute natural language "understanding"?" Friday, April 19 | 3:30-5pm | Boylston 105

XIV Annual Whatmough Lecture: Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley) "The Fall and Rise of Vowel Length in Bantu" Larry Hyman (UC Berkeley) Monday, April 29, 2019 | 4pm | Sever 113

LingedIn Ethan Wilcox "Structural Supervision Improves Learning of Non-Local Grammatical Dependencies " Tuesday, April 8 | 12-1pm | Boylston 303

GSAS Indo-European and Historical Linguistics Workshop Alexander (Sasha) Nikolaev (Boston University) "Hesiodea: 1. ἅρπαξ ‘plundering’ (Op. 356); 2. ἐπᾱλής ‘warm’ (Op. 493)" Friday, April 12 | 5pm | Boylston 335

Liu presented at 8th Annual Boston Area Psychology Symposium Yingtong Liu gave a talk titled "Frequency effects in filler-gap constructions: Factive and manner-of-speaking island" at the 8th Annual Boston... facebook.com/harvardlinguist…

Bhadra and Bottoms awarded Bok Center Certificate of Excellence in Teaching Lecturer Diti Bhadra and Preceptor Andrew Bottoms have been awarded Harvard Excellence Teaching Awards from The Derek Bok Center... facebook.com/harvardlinguist…

Bryant and Yang awarded Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Graduate students Shannon Bryant and Tsai-Heng (Tiffany) Yang have been awarded Harvard Distinction Teaching Awards from The Derek Bok... facebook.com/harvardlinguist…

Bhadra to the University of Minnesota Our College Fellow, Diti Bhadra has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Minnesota Department of Linguistics. Congratulations, Diti!

Fuchs to the University of Iowa Zuzanna Fuchs (PhD 2019) has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Iowa Department of Linguistics. Congratulations, Zuzanna!

Harvard at CUNY 2019 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing Ethan Wilcox, Yingtong Liu, and Yuhan Zhang presented the following talks at the 32nd Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence... facebook.com/harvardlinguist…