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Past Lecture Events

Thu, 4/18 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · A17 Julis Romo Rabinowitz

Rewriting the history of Greek slave systems

Kostas Vlassopoulos, University of Crete


Wed, 3/27 · 4:30 pm6:00 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 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Operational opacity at the clausal middlefield

Asia Pietraszko, University of Rochester


Thu, 2/15 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

On two types of resumptive Ā-dependencies and feature-driven syntax

Georgetown University


Thu, 2/8 · 4:30 pm6:00 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 pm6:00 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 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Is prediction multilevel grammatical inference?

Dave Kush, University of Toronto


December 6, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Information structure insights from sign language anaphora

Kathryn Davidson, Harvard University


November 29, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture

Sinews of the Soul: Comparing Christian Baptism and Indigenous Adoption

Emma Anderson, Pathy Visiting Professor in Canadian Studies


November 29, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Ticha: archival texts, linguistic analysis, and language activism

Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Haverford College


November 15, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 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 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Sociolinguistic Challenges for Emerging Speech Technology

Nicole Holliday, Pomona College


October 25, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

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

Amalia Gnanadesikan '90, University of Maryland


September 29, 2023 · 1:30 pm3:00 pm · 1-S-5 Green Hall

Structuring Itelmen Word Order

Jonathan David Bobaljik, Harvard University


April 19, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Zoom

Documenting the ASL communities: MoLo and O5S5 projects

Julie A. Hochgesang, Gallaudet University


April 12, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 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 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · East Pyne 010

The Rise of the Christian Economy in the post-Christian West

Ian Wood, University of Leeds


March 23, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · 010 East Pyne

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

Manuel Fernández-Götz, University of Edinburgh


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