Ryan Chon at SAALS 7 in Bodø
PhD student Ryan Chon gave a talk entitled "Language contact effects of the northeast spread of reindeer pastoralism and North Saami" with Ante Aikio (University of Oulu) at the 7th Saami Linguistics Symposium (SAALS) at Nord University in Bodø, Norway on November 5. Abstract: This presentation proposes a new theory…
November 8, 2026
Gaurav Kamath defence
On Tuesday November 3rd Gaurav Kamath defended his dissertation titled "Distributional Meaning in and with Language Models". Congratulations Gaurav! Gaurav Kamath (right) moves his picture in the student lounge alongside his supervisor Siva Reddy (left).
November 8, 2026
MULL 11/13
The second Montréal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) meeting of the semester will be held on Friday, November 13th, from 4–5PM in Room...
November 8, 2026
McGill undergraduate student open house
The McGill Open House 2026 took place on October 24, in the Arts & Leacock buildings. We were very lucky to have a...
November 1, 2026
Johnston in Journal of Semantics
William Johnston’s (PhD 2024) “Paths across worlds: the presupposition of 'back' in intensional contexts”, based on one of his McGill PhD Eval papers,...
November 1, 2026
Colloquium 11/6 Maria Gouskova
the next talk in our McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by Maria Gouskova, this Friday, November 6, 2026, at 3:30 p.m....
November 1, 2026
Boberg, Henderson, and Mundie featured in McGill News
McGill News recently featured a piece on Charles Boberg's work on Canadian English, including his recent collaborative publication in the Canadian Journal of...
November 1, 2026
Syntax-Semantics Group 10/26: von Heusinger “Island constraints for conceptual anaphora.”
The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Monday, October26th, at 1-2pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department, 1085 Dr. Penfield. Online participants can join with...
October 25, 2026
First PhD in Indigenous Language Revitalization to Mary McDonald
The McGill Reporter featured an article on Mary Tekahawáhkwen McDonald, known to many as Wá:ri, who graduated Monday with McGill's first PhD in...
October 25, 2026
McGill @ NELS 57
McGill linguists presented their work at this year's meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS 57), which was held at the CUNY...
October 25, 2026
Palucci and Alonso-Ovalle in Semantics of Natural Languages
Jonny Palucci and Luis Alonso-Ovalle’s paper “Have causatives always project possibilities from facts” was just accepted for publication in Semantics of Natural Languages.
October 18, 2026
