Hi everyone,
This is a reminder that the 4th Annual Harvard Undergraduate Linguistics
Colloquium will be held this weekend, April 22-23, in Harvard Hall 104. This
year we have six Harvard presenters and thirteen others from across the U.S.
and Canada. Our keynote speaker is Prof. Marc Hauser from Harvard's Department
of Psychology.
We hope you'll come and show your support for LinG! There will be something for
everyone, with a variety of talks on acquisition, phonology, semantics,
sociolinguistics, syntax, and historical topics. A schedule and registration
information can be found at
http://hcs.harvard.edu/ling/conference-schedule-2006.pdf. Here's a list of the
Harvard presenters:
Saturday, April 22
11:00am Inna Livitz - What's in a nominative? Implications of Russian
non-nominative subjects for a cross-linguistic approach to subjecthood
12:15am Robyn Orfitelli - Raising with & without an experiencer phrase: evidence
for late acquisition
3:30pm Caroline Jackson - Verbs in space: the development of cognition & the
acquisition of morphosyntax in children learning sign languages
Sunday, April 23
10:30am Bridget Samuels - Problems in Attic phonology
1:45pm Marina Fisher - Competing theories & conflicting evidence: the role of UG
in second language acquisition
2:15pm Jeremy Hartman - A focus account of 'swiping'
3:30pm Marc Hauser - The mind of a linguistic creature
Additionally, there will be a reception at my house after the conclusion of the
conference on Saturday evening, to which all are invited.
Hope to see you this weekend!
Bridget
on behalf of the LinG board
Dear all,
This is a reminder that there will be a anti-locality workshop this
coming Saturday at Harvard.
Date: Saturday, April 22nd
Time: 1 pm
Location: Harvard, Boylston 303
Talks will include:
a keynote by Kleanthes Grohmann (University of Cyprus) addressing the
key issues of anti-locality
Zejlko Boskovic (University of Connecticut)
Andrew Nevins (Harvard) on the OCP
Cedric Boeckx (Harvard)
and students from both Harvard and UConn.
For further information see also: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/
~lingdept/events.html
We are looking forward to seeing you.
Best wishes,
Cedric & Clemens
