On September 18th, the Graduate Linguistic Association of McGill (GLAM) hosted a beginning-of-year picnic in Parc Jeanne-Mance. Good food and company abounded. Thanks to Ilya for documenting the event with some photos:

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Monday, September28th, at 1-2pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department, 1085 Dr. Penfield. Online participants can join with this zoom link.  Yosef Grodzinsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ELSC) will be presenting “How Deeply Human is Language? Chomsky, the Brain and the AI Fantasy.” Here is the abstract: The appearance of Deep […]

The first talk in our McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by Lefteris Paparounas (UQAM), next Friday, October 2nd, at 3:30pm in Arts Building, room 150. The details of the talk are given below.  Building verbal reflexives in Turkish and beyond Many languages derive reflexive interpretations from ostensibly intransitive verbal forms (e.g. English ‘John bathed’; compare ‘John bathed himself’). […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Monday, September21st, at 1-2pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department, 1085 Dr. Penfield. Online participants can join with this zoom link.  Emma Custer (McGill) will be presenting “Long-distance allomorphy in Pulaar is locally conditioned.” Here is the abstract: A question actively debated within the Distributed Morphology framework (Halle & Marantz 1993) […]

The first Montréal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) meeting of the semester will be held on Friday, September 25th, from 4–5PM in Room 404 of Thomson House (3650 Rue McTavish) on the McGill campus. After the meeting, we’ll have a social hour at Brass Door Pub (2171 Rue Crescent). If you plan to join us […]

Alessio Tosolini conducted fieldwork this summer on Ese Ejja in Portachuelo Alto, Bolivia.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Monday, September14th, at 1-2pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department, 1085 Dr. Penfield. Online participants can join with this zoom link.  Austin Kraft (McGill) will be presenting “Partitives in Javanese.” Here is the abstract: I present a new account for why partitives in Javanese (Austronesian) yield a different interpretation than partitive counterparts in languages like English. Constructions such as the English three of Mary’s […]

McGill’s P* Group will have its first meeting on Monday, September 14th, at 12PM in Room 117. They will be creating this semester’s schedule so come prepared with presentation ideas!

Martina Martinović accompanied by Emma Custer (M2), Kento Tanaka (PhD2), and Sama’a Salama (PhD3) spent 6 weeks in the Saint-Louis region of Senegal conducting fieldwork on Wolof and Pulaar.

Professor James Crippen, PhD students Laurestine Bradford and David Avellan-Hultman, and UBC PhD student Aaní Perkins traveled to Teslin, YT for three weeks in August to do fieldwork on Tlingit (Lingít [ɬìn’kít]). They had elicitation sessions almost every day, covering subordinate clauses, question and focus particles, and progressive aspect with elders Anaalahaash Sam Johnston, Shuwuteen Margaret […]

The Montréal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) is happy to announce meetings for this term​. MULL-Lab is a group of linguists at universities in Montréal who work on underdocumented languages. We convene once a month, and meetings are open to anyone interested. The scheduled dates and locations for this semester’s meetings are: Meetings are at 4–5pm, followed […]

Myriam Lapierre and UW graduate students Sunny Ananthanarayan and Jessa Jeter spent four weeks conducting fieldwork with the Panãra community in Brazil this summer. Working with their friend and collaborator Tepakriti, they recorded numerous traditional narratives told by Panãra elders, transcribed several of these stories, recorded daylong recordings of infant language environments, conducted elicitation sessions, […]

Cinthia de Oliveira Ishida is a PhD student at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil, whose research focuses on the phonetic and phonological aspects of Apurinã, an Arawakan language spoken in Brazil. Her work involves collaborative language research and documentation, developed through nearly a decade of collaboration with the Apurinã community. During the Fall […]

Ziru Chen (she/her) is interested in phonetics and laboratory phonology, particularly topics in speech production and perception. She is from Zhejiang, China. She received her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Peking University and her MSc in Phonetics from the University of Edinburgh. Her research has been focused on the variation and change in […]

This year’s colloquium speaker line-up is… We may have one addition in the fall, to be confirmed. As always, talks will take place Fridays from 3:30–5:00, with talk details announced before the talk. If you have any questions, you can reach out to this year’s new colloquium team: Hannah and Tony (student organizers) and Jessica […]

McGill Linguistics affiliates partnered with the grassroots Kanien’kéha language group Ionkwahrhonkha’onhátie’ to present three workshops in Akwesasne this summer. The first was on how to use linguistic elicitation as a second-language learner, the second was on transcribing language recordings with ELAN, and the third was on practices of archiving and Indigenous knowledge management. This workshop […]

Willie Myers and Brandon Chaperon (MA ’25) both have papers published in the new volume ‘Pamoja tena’ Together again: African linguistics after COVID, a volume including select presentations from the 54th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at University of Connecticut in June 2024. Congrats both!

June 24-29, LabPhon 20 was held in Montreal for the conference’s 40th anniversary, organized by McGill Linguistics members and colleagues in Ottawa. More than 300 people from around the world attended, including many current and former McGillians.

Edward Flemming (MIT) and Michael Wagner co-taught a class on Prosody at the The 7th Crete Summer School of Linguistics in Rethymno, Crete, July 18–31. Jessica Coon taught a class on Hierarchy Effects at the DGfS Summer School in Bielefeld, Germany, August 10–14th.

McLing is happy to welcome Samantha Prins, who is joining us for a two-year Canada Impact+ Research Training Award (CIRTA) postdoctoral fellowship, working with Jessica Coon. Sam’s research combines morphosyntactic theory, documentation, and (re)vitalization. Her theoretical work centers on formal models of inflection, agreement, and reference-tracking in Algonquian languages, particularly Blackfoot. Her documentary work focuses […]