Thanks to all who responded to the poll. This semester, the P* Reading group will meet Mondays 15:30-16:30 in room 002 (and on Zoom, at the following link). Our first meeting will be this coming Monday, 15 January, where we’ll determine the presentation schedule. As always, all docs will be available in the Google Drive, including the schedule (which is also […]

The Syntax-Semantics reading group will be meeting on Thursday, January 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, Jonny will be giving a practice talk for NELS. The abstract is below: Quantifier Raising (QR) is a standard tool for […]

McGill linguists were present at the 100th Annual Meeting the Linguistics Society of America, which took place in New York City January 4–7th. Current PhD student Irene Smith presented “PIN/PEN in Raleigh: Socially conditioned unmerger,” collaborative work with Morgan Sonderegger, Robin Dodsworth (North Carolina State). Jessica Coon was this year’s recipient of the C.L. Baker […]

The Syntax-Semantics reading group and MULL-lab will be meeting on Thursday, January 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, Austin will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled: ‘Numerals and relativization in Javanese DPs’. I present an in-progress account for […]