Our next meeting will be Tuesday March 25th at 10am in room 117. Ray will be presenting his thesis research titled “Moving from Compensatory Lengthening to Partial Assimilation in Chilean Spanish.” This is in part in preparation for his talk at CLA, so there will be a discussion afterwards about the research. Here is the abstract: […]

At this week’s MCQLL meeting, Laurestine Bradford will present a talk titled “Do aspectual classes show up in corpus distribution patterns?”. We will be meeting this Wednesday, March 19, at 10 AM. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on zoom at https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/89609376104. Verbs fall into distinct aspectual classes, […]

Jessica Coon’s paper, “Embedding, extraction, and clausal pied-piping in Ch’ol”, with collaborator Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez (CIMSUR-UNAM) was just published in Glossa, available here: https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/17171/. Congrats! Abstract: This paper examines clausal embedding and long-distance wh-dependencies in Ch’ol, a Mayan language of southern Mexico. We demonstrate that when it comes to finite embedded clauses, two options […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, March 17 at 3pm in Room 117 of the McGill linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. The meeting will feature two presenters, who are both talking about relative clauses. Clara Tran (McGill) will be discussing “Relative Clause Attachment by L1 Vietnamese-L2 English Bilinguals: Effects of Prosody.” Austin […]

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, March 18th at 10am in room 117. Heather will be presenting the paper “High Vowel Deletion in Quebec French.” There will also be a Zoom link open for this meeting at the following link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84127437214?pwd=3U6LIdUJyJi6TnacFR1OwPRetKNAAN.1 Meeting ID: 841 2743 7214 Passcode: 674595