As the academic year wraps up, Jeanne and Morgan are stepping down as co-editors of McLing — thank you for your service! We’re happy to share that Sama’a will be joining as student co-editor in the fall, alongside Jessica, who will be returning as faculty editor. McLing will be on summer break starting this week. […]

Recent PhD graduate Irene Smith has accepted a one-year teaching position at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Department of Linguistics. Congratulations, Irene!

Jessica Coon’s paper “Invisible inanimates and the syntax of pronominal prefixes in Northern Iroquoian” was just accepted for publication in Language. A pre-print PDF is available here. Congratulations, Jessica!

McGillians attended the 18th Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop on May 22nd at l’Université de Montréal. Talks included:

McGill linguists of past and present attended the special joint meeting of SULA (Semantics of Underdocumented Languages of the Americas) and Triple-A (Semantics of Languages of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania), held at the University of British Columbia. The conference included plenary talks by two McGill alums, Terrance Gatchalian (“Split tenselessness: tense, aspect, and counterfactuality in Kanien’kéha”) and Justin Royer (“Wh-predicates, […]

Laurestine Bradford presented a talk about Tlingit progressive aspect at the conference on Neglected Aspects of Motion Event Descriptions (NAMED) at the Université du Québec Trois-Rivières on May 21st. Her talk was titled “Motion Verbs Without Fact of Motion”.

Jeanne Brown gave an invited talk at the 190th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), held May 11–15 in Philadelphia. Her talk was titled, “Rethinking ‘young women’s creak’: Piecing together production, perception, and social evidence.” The talk received media coverage in the ASA 190th press release, Ars Technica and New Scientist! Abstract: Since […]

McGill linguistics was well represented at the 44th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 44), which took place May 6–8 at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. Presentations by current affiliates included: The full program is available here: https://wccfl44.github.io/WCCFL44/program.html

Current and former McGillians were well represented at the 18th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference which took place at the University of Cambridge, April 16-18 2026. Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) & Lydia White presented a paper on Relativized Minimality and Featural Mismatches in L2: Is There an Age Advantage? Yanran Mou (BA 2024) & Heather […]

Xuanda Chen’s (PhD 2025) paper, co-authored with Heather Goad, David Shanks (MA 2023) & Donghyun Kim (PhD 2015), “The role of L1 feature specification in naive L2 vowel perception: Evidence from feature fission and fusion” has been accepted for publication in Second Language Research. Congratulations!

Jessica Coon has been awarded a prestigious James McGill Professorship. Congratulations to Jessica for this well-deserved recognition of her exceptional work and outstanding achievements!