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McGill @ MOTH 2022
McGill linguists of past and present gathered at UQAM last Friday and Saturday for the 10th annual edition of the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton (MOTH) Syntax Workshop. Justin Royer gave an invited...
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McGill at Ba-TOM 1
Students from the Winter 2022 Linguistic Field Methods class will be traveling to Toronto later this week to present their work on Kirundi at the first Toronto–Montreal Bantu Colloquium, Ba-TOM 1,...
View ArticleLaurestine Bradford at Cogsci 2022
PhD student Laurestine Bradford will present her Master’s project work as a flash talk at the 44th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci 2022), taking place on July 27th-30th in...
View ArticleMathieu Paillé at Workshop on Part-Whole Structures
PhD student Mathieu Paillé gave a talk entitled “Inclusion of parts, or exclusion of predicates: Comparing two exhaustivity accounts of homogeneity” at the Workshop on Part-Whole Structures in Natural...
View ArticleMathieu Paillé to U Calgary
Congratulations to Mathieu Paillé, who will start a position as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Calgary in fall 2022. He will work with Elizabeth Ritter, Dimitrios Skordos, and Martina...
View ArticleIncoming graduate cohort for fall 2022
McLing is pleased to announce the incoming McGill graduate cohort! The following PhD, MA, and QY students will be joining McGill in Fall 2022. Welcome new students! – Cheman Baira A Sangma – Jeanne...
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final presentations for first LING 483/683 “Linguistic elicitation for...
The first “Linguistic elicitation for language revitalization”, co-taught by Meghan Clayards and Jessica Coon in the condensed May summer term, together with course advisors James Crippen, Luis...
View ArticleMcGill @ CLA 2022
McGill linguists presented at this year’s Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA) annual meeting, held virtually June 1st–4th. Presenters included: Terrance Gatchalian – The composition of Ktunaxa...
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Masashi Harada’s PhD defence and job news
Congratulations to Masashi Harada, who successfully defended his dissertation “Locality effects in composition with plurals and conjunctions” in July, supervised by Bernhard Schwarz and Michael Wagner....
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Justin Royer’s PhD defence
Congratulations to Justin Royer, who successfully defended his dissertation, “Elements of (in)definteness and binding: A Mayan perspective”, supervised by Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Jessica Coon, and Aron...
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Mathieu Paillé’s PhD defence
Congratulations to Mathieu Paillé, who successfully defended his dissertation, “Strengthening Predicates” August 3rd, supervised by Bernhard Schwarz and Luis Alonso-Ovalle. Mathieu will be heading to...
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David Shanks to Whitehorse
MA student David Shanks traveled to Whitehorse, Yukon to conduct fieldwork with speakers of Dän k’è’ (Southern Tutchone, Dene/Athabaskan) in June. Over two weeks, David worked with Dan Tlen, a linguist...
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Welcome incoming grad students!
McLing is happy to welcome our new incoming cohort of graduate students! Jeanne Brown: Jeanne Brown is interested in language variation and change, especially sociophonetic variation in Canadian...
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Gouming Martens’ PhD defence
Congratulations to Gouming Martens, who defended his dissertation “What about those B-accents and hat patterns? Form and meaning of contrastive topics in English, Dutch, and German”, supervised by...
View ArticleAFLA 28 proceedings
The proceedings of the 28th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 28), co-hosted by McGill University and National University of Singapore, were published in June and...
View ArticleMCQLL Summer News
Former MCQLL MA student (2021), Emily Goodwin traveled to ACL 2022 in Dublin, Ireland to present her paper Compositional Generalization in Dependency Parsing, which is joint work with Siva Reddy, Tim...
View ArticleMcGill at LabPhon 18
LabPhon 18 was held virtually June 22-25. There were several presentations by department members: Gwen Brekelmans, Nadine Lavan, Haruka Saito, Meghan Clayards and Elizabeth Wonnacott — “Is there a...
View ArticleTanner, Sonderegger, & Stuart-Smith “Best Paper” at NAACL 2022
James Tanner (PhD ’20), Morgan Sonderegger and Jane Stuart-Smith presented “Multidimensional acoustic variation in vowels across English dialects” at the SIGMORPHON 2022 workshop at NAACL 2022, which...
View ArticleStudent grant news
Six current McGill Linguistics students received prestigious SSHRC and FRQSC fellowship this summer, lasting 1-3 years: Canada Graduate Scholarship — Doctoral: Terrance Gatchalian FRQSC Bourse de...
View ArticleMULL Lab, 10/18 – Bernardas Jurevičius
MULL Lab will meet in its regular time this coming week — Oct. 18 at 3:30PM in room 002. Additionally, we will be having an in-person meetup after at 4:30PM at Thomson House, on rue McTavish. All are...
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