CLA Early Career Award to Gui Garcia
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! Jila Ghomeshi awarding Gui…
June 6, 2025
McGill hosts CLA 2025
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…
June 6, 2025
McGill at Iakwarihwí:saks 2025
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),...
June 6, 2025
McGill presentations at CLA 2025
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...
June 6, 2025
2025 Student Awards
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce this year’s graduation award recipients. Learn more about the awards here and here. Congratulations all! Faculty of Arts AwardsCremona Memorial...
June 3, 2025
Jacobs and Phillips Fund grants awarded for Tlingit research
Zlata Odribets and Laurestine Bradford have been awarded a Jacobs Research Fund grant for Tlingit fieldwork this summer! The grant will fund a...
June 2, 2025
Jacobs and Phillips Fund grants awarded for Kanien’kéha research
PhD students Katya Morgunova and Willie Myers received a Jacobs Research Fund grant to study Kanien'kéha (Mohawk; Iroquoian) for their respective dissertations. The...
May 25, 2025
CLA at McGill
McGill is hosting the 2025 CLA conference, which will take place June 3-6th. In addition to a full program of talks and posters, this year...
May 23, 2025
Jessica Coon at TED AI
Jessica gave a talk at TED AI in San Francisco in the fall, "Lessons from linguistics for the future of AI", which was...
May 20, 2025
McGill at TOM 17
The 17th Toronto-Ottawa-Montréal Semantics Conference took place on May 10 at the University of Ottawa. McGill was well represented by PhD students Laurestine...
May 12, 2025
Alonso-Ovalle and Moghiseh in Semantics and Pragmatics
Hot from the press: Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Esmail Moghiseh (2025) Existential Free Choice Items: The Case of Farsi Yek -i DPs, Semantics and...
May 7, 2025