McGill @ ACAL 56
The 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) was held at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, from May 15-17, 2025. Presentations by McGill-affiliated students included: Ina Zeng — "Morphological Realization of Presuppositionality in Igala" Jasper Jian — "The long and short of subject focus…
June 9, 2025
Austin Kraft at AFLA 32
PhD student Austin Kraft was the invited student speaker at this year's 32nd Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association annual meeting (AFLA 32), which took place June 2–4 at the Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia. The title of Austin's talk was "Pseudoclefts in Land Dayak Questions", and the full program is…
June 9, 2025
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...
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,...
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