Alumni news

The 17th Toronto-Ottawa-Montréal Semantics Conference took place on May 10 at the University of Ottawa. McGill was well represented by PhD students Laurestine...

Hot from the press: Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Esmail Moghiseh (2025) Existential Free Choice Items: The Case of Farsi Yek -i DPs, Semantics and...

McGill linguists presented work at the 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43), held last weekend at the University of Washington....

Wei Zhang (PhD, 2024) has received an Assistant Professor position at the School of Foreign Studies at Nanjing University.  Congratulations, Wei!

The Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop (MOTH) was be held on April 7 and 8, 2025 at the University of Toronto. Presentations by McGill students,...

The 49th Penn Linguistics Conference took place April 5–6 at the University of Pennsylvania. Jessica Coon gave a keynote titled "Invisible inanimates and...

Semantics 4/Seminar in Semantics on Thursday, January 23, 8:35-9:55 in R. 117, will feature a special presentation by Mathieu Paillé (McGill PhD 2022, currently...

The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55)  took place at Yale University last week. Current McGill PhD student Willie Myers presented...

Lydia White, Heather Goad, Gui Garcia, Natália Guzzo, Liz Smeets and Jiajia Su presented a paper at GALA 16, NOVA University of Lisbon, Sept....

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...

Congratulations to Wei Zhang, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Phonetics and Phonology in the imitation of tone contrasts”, supervised by Meghan Clayards and...

Congratulations to Ben LeBrun and Olivia Oppong, who both successfully defended their MA theses this summer! Ben's thesis was titled "Grounding Language in...