McLing is happy to report that Clint Parker (PhD ’23) has recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Literatures at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan.  He will begin his position in August and looks forward to continuing his research with the languages of Central Asia while living in the heart of […]

The Syntax-Semantics reading group will be meeting for the last time this semester on Thursday, April 18th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Luis and Bernhard will be presenting a talk entitled: ‘Quantity DPs: Decoupling quantities from entities’. The abstract is below: In […]

Congratulations to Yanran Mou who was awarded Most Outstanding Departmental President at the 2024 McGill Arts Undergraduate Society Awards.

The P* reading group will be meeting for the final time this semester this Monday, 15 April from 10:00 to 12:00 in room 117 (and on Zoom, at the following link). Please note the change in time/location. This week, students will be giving practice talks in preparation for [moth]. Relevant documents will be available on the Google Drive. The full schedule for the […]

McGill linguists of past and present attended the 42nd annual West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 42), held April 12–14th at UC Berkeley. McGill presentations included:

The Syntax-Semantics reading group and MULL-lab will be meeting on Thursday, April 11th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Chase will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled: ‘Stowaway nominals: Incorporation and nPs in Kanien’kéha’. The abstract is below: Northern Iroquoian languages […]

The Syntax-Semantics reading group and MULL-lab will be meeting on Thursday, April 4th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Martin will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled: ‘Discourse and Prosody in Kanien’kéha’. The abstract is below: Like many other Indigenous languages […]

The P* reading group will be meeting again this Monday, 25 March at 15:30 in room 002 (and on Zoom, at the following link). This week, Jeanne will be leading discussion on Claudia Duarte-Borquez, Maxine Van Doren and Marc Garellek’s 2024 paper Utterance-Final Voice Quality in American English and Mexican Spanish Bilinguals. Below is the abstract: We investigate utterance-final voice quality […]

The Syntax-Semantics reading group and MULL-lab will be meeting on Thursday, March 28th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Willie will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled: ‘The Repetitive Prefix and Presupposition in Kanien’kéha’. The abstract is below: In this talk, […]

Over March 15 – 17th, participants of Tuesday and Thursday evening Ktunaxa language classes gathered for a Language Learners Gathering in ʔa·k̓isqakⱡiʔit (Cranbrook), BC. Pictured here is the teaching team of the Thursday night Ktunaxa langauge classes: Elise McClay (McGill BA’ 12), PhD student Terrance Gatchalian, Violet Birdstone, and Mara Nelson.

The P* reading group will be meeting again this Monday, 18 March at 15:30 in room 002 (and on Zoom, at the following link). This week, Simon will be presenting original research in a talk titled Consonant-glide onsets do not exist in Kanien’kéha. Here’s the link to the Google Drive, and the full schedule for the semester is available here.

Last week PhD student Will Johnston presented a poster at GLOW in Asia XIV, held March 6–8 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His poster draws on his dissertation work and was titled “Diagnosing Prepositions: Decomposing Path in White Hmong”. 

Please join us for a special talk by Lefteris Paparounas (UQAM) in connection with this semester’s Syntax 4 seminar. The talk will take place Friday March 22nd at 3:30pm in Education room 433. All are welcome! Clitic doubling as Agree: Evidence from first conjunct clitic doubling in Greek Lefteris Paparounas (joint work with Martin Salzmann) […]

Congratulations to BA students Natalia Feu and Sophia Flaim, who have each received Arts Undergraduate Research Internship Awards for Summer 2024. Natalia’s project is “Phonological Analysis of Lushootseed Syllable Structure”, supervised by Heather Goad, and Sophia’s is titled “Examining word order variation in Kanien’kéha”, supervised by Jessica Coon. Congrats both!

Next Friday, we are having the last talk of the McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series of this semester! The talk will be given by Dr. Paul H. Portner (Georgetown University) on Friday, March 15th at 3:30PM at Sherbrooke 680, room 1041 (10th floor). The details of the talk are given below: Title: Social relations and scalar implicature Abstract:  Psychologists and philosophers have […]

The P* reading group will be meeting again this Monday, 11 March at 15:30 in room 002 (and on Zoom, at the following link). This week, Meghan will be leading discussion on Georgia Zellou’s 2022 monograph Coarticulation in Phonology. Below is the abstract: There is debate about how coarticulation is represented in speakers’ mental grammar, as well as the […]

At this week’s MCQLL meeting, Jeanne Brownwill be presenting “Creaky voice across language, gender and age in Canadian English-French bilinguals’ speech”. Abstract below. We will be meeting this Tuesday, March 12th at 3:00PM. Meetings are held both in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on zoom. Abstract: Creaky voice (a.k.a vocal fry) is a particular […]

The Syntax-Semantics reading group and MULL-lab will be meeting on Thursday, March 14th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Anne will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled: ‘The structure of gradable predicates in Ktunaxa’. The abstract is below: In this presentation, […]

The Syntax-Semantics reading group will be meeting on Thursday, February 29th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Zlata will be presenting a talk entitled: ‘Functions of the Ukrainian –sja suffix’. The abstract is below: In this talk, I will present […]

Jessica Coon presented collaborative work with Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez (CIMSUR-UNAM) at the 7th Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics, which took place February 23–24th at UNAM in Mexico City. The title of their talk was “Long-distance extraction and clause type in Ch’ol”. Recent PhD alum Justin Royer was a co-organizer.