Syntax Semantics Group 09/28: Yosef Grodzinsky “How Deeply Human is Language? Chomsky, the Brain and the AI Fantasy.”

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Monday, September28th, at 1-2pm in Room 002 of the McGill linguistics department, 1085 Dr. Penfield. Online participants can join with this zoom link.  Yosef Grodzinsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ELSC) will be presenting “How Deeply Human is Language? Chomsky, the Brain and the AI Fantasy.” Here is the…
September 28, 2026

Colloquium 10/2 – Lefteris Paparounas

The first talk in our McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by Lefteris Paparounas (UQAM), next Friday, October 2nd, at 3:30pm in Arts Building, room 150. The details of the talk are given below.  Building verbal reflexives in Turkish and beyond Many languages derive reflexive interpretations from ostensibly intransitive verbal forms (e.g. English ‘John…
September 27, 2026