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 Bradford (Cumulative Closure vs. Iterativity in Tinglit) and Austin Kraft (Accounting for Javanese Numerals' Dual Roles), MA student Sama’a Salama (Decomposing the Definite Article) and alumni Zahur…
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 Pragmatics, 18 (4).
May 7, 2025
Welcome incoming new faculty member Myriam Lapierre
McLing is very happy to welcome Myriam Lapierre as an incoming faculty member in the McGill Linguistics Department. Myriam will be officially joining...
May 6, 2025
Austin Kraft wins Best Student/Junior Scholar Abstract award at AFLA 32
PhD student Austin Kraft’s abstract, “Pseudoclefts in Land Dayak questions,” has been selected as the best abstract by a student or junior scholar...
May 5, 2025
Monthly MULL: 5/8
The Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) is meeting Thursday, May 8 at 4PM in Rm 404 of Thomson House on the McGill Downtown campus. We will have...
May 5, 2025
McGill @ WCCFL 43
McGill linguists presented work at the 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43), held last weekend at the University of Washington....
April 28, 2025
Sonderegger & Sóskuthy in Journal of Phonetics
A new paper by Morgan Sonderegger and Márton Sóskuthy (UBC) titled "Advancements of Phonetics in the 21st century: Quantitative data analysis" has just...
April 21, 2025
Tur, Kamath, & Reddy selected to win a SAC award at NAACL 2025
Congratulations to Ada Tur, Gaurav Kamath and Siva Reddy! Their paper, ‘Language models largely exhibit human-like constituent ordering preferences’, was selected to win a...
April 21, 2025
Wei Zhang to School of Foreign Studies
Wei Zhang (PhD, 2024) has received an Assistant Professor position at the School of Foreign Studies at Nanjing University. Congratulations, Wei!
April 18, 2025
Jessica and Morgan at CRBLM movie night
Jessica Coon and Morgan Sonderegger participated as discussants in a Q&A after a showing of the film Arrival organized by the Centre for...
April 16, 2025
James Crippen interview with KSTK
An interview with James Crippen on his work with the Tlingit language was just published on the Stikine River Radio –– listen here!
April 15, 2025