McLing is pleased to welcome this year’s incoming group of graduate students! (In no particular order!) Emma Custer Emma Custer (she/her) is passionate about syntax and fieldwork, with a particular interest in argument structure in West African languages. She earned her B.A. in Linguistics from McGill University. Outside of linguistics, she enjoys cooking, playing the flute, […]

Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) and Lydia White presented a paper at the conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 34), at the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, June 25-28th 2025, on Intervention effects in L2 object relative clauses.

The 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) was held at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, from May 15-17, 2025. Presentations by McGill-affiliated students included:

PhD student Austin Kraft was the invited student speaker at this year’s 32nd Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association annual meeting (AFLA 32), which took place June 2–4 at the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. The title of Austin’s talk was “Pseudoclefts in Land Dayak Questions”, and the full program is available here.

McLing is happy to congratulate McGill alum Gui Garcia (PhD ’17) on receiving the Canadian Linguistics Association’s Early Career Researcher Award! This award is presented to “an individual early in their career who has made outstanding and original contributions to the field of linguistics.” Congratulations Gui!

The Department of Linguistics hosted the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, which was held June 2-6. The conference attracted about 250 people, most of them from universities, but also a good number of members of Indigenous communities involved in language documentation and revitalization attended. About 10% travelled from abroad (mostly the US, but including […]

As part of ongoing collaborations with students and teachers in the immersion program at the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC), McGill and KORLCC affiliates organized the second Iakwarihwí:saks mini workshop, showcasing projects that have come from collaborative research with first-language speakers this year. This work has been supported by Jessica Coon’s SSHRC […]

Current McGill affiliates were well represented among the talk and poster presenters at this year’s Canadian Linguistic Association conference, held June 2–6 at McGill. Talks by current McGill linguists included: Posters included: This year’s CLA also included three mini courses, including one led by Austin Kraft and Wishe Mitchell Mittelstaedt titled “Data management, data storage, […]