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Wed, 3/27 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Temporal Coordination as a Hallmark of Metrical Prominence Across Languages

Kathryn Franich, Harvard University

Wed, 3/20 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Operational opacity at the clausal middlefield

Asia Pietraszko, University of Rochester

Thu, 2/8 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · Louis A. Simpson International Building room A71

Computational sociolinguistics: How lexical meaning is dynamically constructed across partners and communities

Robert D. Hawkins, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thu, 2/1 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Locality and linguistic theory: The crucial role of African tone languages

Nicholas Rolle, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS)

Wed, 1/31 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Is prediction multilevel grammatical inference?

Dave Kush, University of Toronto

December 6, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Information structure insights from sign language anaphora

Kathryn Davidson, Harvard University

November 29, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Ticha: archival texts, linguistic analysis, and language activism

Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Haverford College

November 15, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · A71 Louis A. Simpson Building

What is the Value of Literature in the Internet Age? Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium as a Guide to Meaningful Digital Communication

Luca Cottini, Villanova University

November 13, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Sociolinguistic Challenges for Emerging Speech Technology

Nicole Holliday, Pomona College

October 25, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

CANCELLED – Introducing Grapholinguistics: Why and How a Linguist Studies Writing Systems

Amalia Gnanadesikan '90, University of Maryland

October 25, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Were the Ancient Greeks Responsible for Antisemitism?

Erich Gruen, University of California, Berkeley

September 29, 2023 · 1:30 pm—3:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Structuring Itelmen Word Order

Jonathan David Bobaljik, Harvard University

April 19, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · Zoom

Documenting the ASL communities: MoLo and O5S5 projects

Julie A. Hochgesang, Gallaudet University

April 18, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

Roman Citizenship and its Value in the Roman Empire until and after the Constitutio Antoniniana

Kostas Buraselis, University of Athens

April 12, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Bua Comparative Project: Documentation and history of a language family of southern Chad

Pascal Boyeldieu, LLACAN-CNRS; Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer, German Universities of Frankfurt, Bayreuth and Mainz; Florian Lionnet, Linguistics

April 11, 2023 · 6:00 pm—7:30 pm · Labyrinth Books and Livestream

LLL Presents | Reading Shakespeare Reading Me

Leonard Barkan, Department of Comparative Literature, Emeritus; Leah Whittington, Harvard University

March 23, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

On the Edge of the World: Rome’s Fluid Frontier in Northern Britain

Manuel Fernández-Götz, University of Edinburgh

March 9, 2023 · 6:00 pm—7:30 pm · Labyrinth Books and Livestream

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