Syntax Semantics Group 14/09: Austin Kraft “Partitives in Javanese.”
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…
September 13, 2026
P* Group, 14/09 — Semester kickoff and planning
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!
September 13, 2026
Summer Fieldwork in Northern Senegal
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...
September 13, 2026
Summer Fieldwork in Teslin, Yukon Territory
Professor James Crippen, PhD students Laurestine Bradford and David Avellan-Hultman, and UBC PhD student Aaní Perkins traveled to Teslin, YT for three weeks...
September 13, 2026
Summer fieldwork
Myriam Lapierre and UW graduate students Sunny Ananthanarayan and Jessa Jeter spent four weeks conducting fieldwork with the Panãra community in Brazil this...
September 6, 2026
Fall 2026 MULL meetings
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...
September 6, 2026
Welcome new GRT Cinthia de Oliveira Ishida
Cinthia de Oliveira Ishida is a PhD student at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil, whose research focuses on the phonetic and...
September 6, 2026
Tewarihwí:saks workshops
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...
August 30, 2026
Welcome incoming graduate students!
Ziru Chen (she/her) is interested in phonetics and laboratory phonology, particularly topics in speech production and perception. She is from Zhejiang, China. She...
August 30, 2026
Myers and Chaperon in ACAL conference volume
Willie Myers and Brandon Chaperon (MA '25) both have papers published in the new volume 'Pamoja tena' Together again: African linguistics after COVID, a...
August 30, 2026
2026/2027 Linguistics Colloquium Schedule
This year's colloquium speaker line-up is... October 2nd – Lefteris Paparounas (UQAM) November 6th – Maria Gouskova (NYU) January 15th – Jason Shaw...
August 30, 2026