The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, September 16, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Sama’a Salama (McGill) will be presenting “Severing maximality from the definite article.” Here is the abstract: In this paper I argue for the decomposition of the widely adopted […]

The first P* Group presentation will take place on Tuesday, September 9, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom. Alessio Tosolini will be presenting his work, “Comparing Phonological Feature Sets for Low-Resource ASR”. The abstract is attached below.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, September 9, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Austin Kraft (McGill) will be presenting “Two lives for numerals: Evidence from Javanese.” Here is the abstract: A prominent treatment of numerals is that they lead multiple semantic […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group is holding its first meeting of Fall 2025 on Tuesday, September 2, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department (1085 Av Docteur-Penfield). Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ In the meeting, there will be informal group introductions, and the group will create a presentation schedule for the semester. All interested […]

This summer, several McGill students and professors organized workshops in collaboration with Kanien’kehá:ka organizations Ionkwahronka’onhátie and the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC). On June 12th, 19th, and 26th, Simon LiVolsi, Akwiratékha’ Martin, and Heather Goad led Praat workshops in Kahnawà:ke in collaboration with teachers and adult immersion program students at KORLCC.  On July 8th, Anne Bertrand, Sophia Flaim, and Jessica Coon led an ELAN and Audacity […]

Alessio Tosolini presented a poster at the Special Interest Group on Typology at the Association for Computational Linguistics in Vienna titled “Analyzing the Linguistic Priors of Language Models with Synthetic Languages“. Congrats, Alessio!