The McGill Linguistics Department Newsletter
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WORDS Group meeting, 9/1
The first meeting of the Word Research Group will take place on Tuesday, January 9th, 12-2pm, in DS-3470 at UQAM (http://carte.uqam.ca/pavillon-ds).
The topic for this term is clitics and agreement, although from time to time group members will present on other topics related to words. We’ll be hoping to finalize a good chunk of the schedule for readings during this first meeting.
Everyone is welcome to attend!
McGill at the 21st Amsterdam Colloquium
The bi-annual Amsterdam Colloquium (http://events.illc.uva.nl/AC/AC2017/) brings together linguists, philosophers, logicians, cognitive scientists and computer scientists who share an interest in the formal study of the semantics and pragmatics of natural and formal languages. The 2017 edition, which took place December 20-22, featured four presentations by current and former Department members:
- Brian Buccola (PhD 2015, http://brianbuccola.com/) (with Andreas Haida): “Expressing agent indifference in German”
- Mitcho Erlewine (Postdoc 2014-15; https://mitcho.com/) (with Hadas Kotek, Postdoc 2014-15, http://hkotek.com/): “Intervention tracks scope-rigidity in Japanese”
- Bernhard Schwarz: “On question exhaustivity and NPI licensing”
- Alexandra (Sasha) Simonenko (PhD 2014, http://people.linguistics.mcgill.ca/~alexandra.simonenko/): “Towards a semantic typology of specifi city markers”
