Thank you 2025-2026 McLing editors & summer hiatus
As the academic year wraps up, Jeanne and Morgan are stepping down as co-editors of McLing — thank you for your service! We're happy to share that Sama'a will be joining as student co-editor in the fall, alongside Jessica, who will be returning as faculty editor. McLing will be on…
May 31, 2026
Irene Smith teaching position at UMass Amherst
Recent PhD graduate Irene Smith has accepted a one-year teaching position at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Department of Linguistics. Congratulations, Irene!
May 31, 2026
Jessica Coon accepted in Language
Jessica Coon’s paper “Invisible inanimates and the syntax of pronominal prefixes in Northern Iroquoian” was just accepted for publication in Language. A pre-print PDF is available...
May 31, 2026
McGillians at TOM 18
McGillians attended the 18th Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop on May 22nd at l'Université de Montréal. Talks included: Derived Object Predication: A new Type-Shifting Operation for...
May 31, 2026
McGillians at SULA-Triple A
McGill linguists of past and present attended the special joint meeting of SULA (Semantics of Underdocumented Languages of the Americas) and Triple-A (Semantics of Languages...
May 31, 2026
Laurestine Bradford at NAMED 2026 in Trois-Rivières
Laurestine Bradford presented a talk about Tlingit progressive aspect at the conference on Neglected Aspects of Motion Event Descriptions (NAMED) at the Université...
May 31, 2026
Jeanne Brown at ASA 2026 in Philadelphia
Jeanne Brown gave an invited talk at the 190th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), held May 11–15 in Philadelphia. Her...
May 17, 2026
McGillians at WCCFL 44
McGill linguistics was well represented at the 44th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 44), which took place May 6–8 at the...
May 10, 2026
McGillians at GASLA 18
Current and former McGillians were well represented at the 18th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference which took place at the University...
May 3, 2026
Chen, Goad, Shanks & Kim paper accepted in Second Language Research
Xuanda Chen's (PhD 2025) paper, co-authored with Heather Goad, David Shanks (MA 2023) & Donghyun Kim (PhD 2015), "The role of L1 feature...
May 3, 2026
James McGill Professorship awarded to Jessica Coon
Jessica Coon has been awarded a prestigious James McGill Professorship. Congratulations to Jessica for this well-deserved recognition of her exceptional work and outstanding achievements!
May 3, 2026