Working on Language in the Field
(WOLF) Lab 🐺

Welcome to the fieldwork lab at the Harvard Department of Linguistics! We are a group of faculty members and graduate students who conduct linguistic fieldwork on understudied and underdocumented languages across the world. Our work involves applying tools of formal linguistics to different languages, as well as typological work. Some of our current projects work on questions concerning clausal complementation, argument and event strucuture, word order, and many others. Our members have been engaged in active research on Austronesian, Algonquian, Kartvelian, Turkic, and Muskogean languages.

News

• September 2023

The Alabama language documentation project resumed meeting on Thursdays at 4:30-6:00PM.

• September 2024

Our weekly lab meetings resume on Fridays starting at 10:30AM

• June 2024

A team from our lab traveled to the Alabama-Coushatta reservation to conduct fieldwork on the Alabama language.

• March 2024

The Harvard Crimson published an article about the WOLF lab Alabama language documentation project in collaboration with the Alabama- Coushatta tribe! You can read all about it here.