At this week’s MCQLL meeting, Andrei Munteanu will be presenting “Evaluating comparative reconstructions probabilistically”. Abstract below. We will be meeting this Tuesday January 23rd at 3:00PM. Meetings are held both in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on zoom. Abstract:  In this talk, I present Wordlist Distortion Theory, a framework for the probabilistic evaluation of comparative reconstructions […]

The next talk of the McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series is next week. The talk will be given by Dr. Heather Newell (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)) on Friday, January 19th at 3:30PM at Sherbrooke 680, room 1041 (10th floor). Heather is interested in meeting with students and faculty. If you would like to meet with Heather before the talk next Friday, please email […]

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 […]