Colloquium, 9/13 — Georgia Zellou (UC Davis)
This coming week, we are starting off the McGill Linguistics Colloquium series for the 2024-2025 academic year! Our first talk will be given by Dr. Georgia Zellou (UC Davis) on Friday, September 13th at 3:30PM. Details on the location will be announced shortly. The details of the talk are given…
September 9, 2024
Syntax-Semantics/MULL group, 9/09 — Richard Compton
This week, Richard Compton (UQAM) will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled "Collaborating on a Kangiryuarmiutun dictionary & Research Ethics and REB Approval for Linguistic Fieldwork" at 3pm in room 002 of the Linguistics department. The abstract is below: In the first half hour I’ll present an overview of a collaboration with Inuvialuit community…
September 9, 2024
Brandon Chaperon @ SNAG 2024
Last week, Brandon Chaperon presented work-in-progress titled "Irrealis mood enclosed negation in Igala" at the SNAG 2024 workshop, held September 5-6 by the Laboratoire de linguistique formelle...
September 9, 2024
Obituary of Linguistics Department co-founder Douglas Ellis
Douglas Ellis, December 6, 1923 — May 31, 2024 It is with sadness that McGill’s Department of Linguistics announces the death of Dr....
September 6, 2024
Syntax – Semantics /MULL group, 09/03 — Planning Meeting + Social
The Syntax-Semantics/MULL group will hold its first meeting on Tuesday September 3rd at 3pm in room 002 of the linguistics building. After introductions and...
September 1, 2024
Summer fieldwork travel news
PhD student Laurestine Bradford and Dzéiwsh James Crippen travelled to Teslin, Yukon (Tlingit: Deisleen [tèːslìːn]) for two weeks in July. They worked with fluent...
September 1, 2024
Welcome new graduate students!
McLing is happy to welcome three new graduate students to the Linguistics program, and one to the Ad Hoc MA in Indigenous Language...
August 30, 2024
Henrison Hsieh to National Tsing Hua University
Congratulations to Henrison Hsieh (PhD 2020, Beyond Nominative: A broader view of Tagalog A-bar-dependencies), who has recently started as an Assistant Professor at National...
August 25, 2024
Eva Portelance to HEC Montréal and Mila
As of June, Eva Portelance started a position as Assistant Professor of machine learning in the Decision Sciences department at HEC Montréal and...
August 25, 2024
Martinović in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
A new article by Martina Martinović was published online in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11049-023-09605-1) Title: Exhaustive control as movement: The case...
August 25, 2024
2024–2025 Linguistics Colloquium Series
The 2024–2025 Linguistics Colloquium Schedule is now available on the departmental page: https://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/events/colloquium-series. September 13: Georgia Zellou (UC Davis) November 8: Linnaea Stockall...
August 25, 2024