Alumni news

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...

Several current and former McGill affiliates travelled to Argentina for Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 36, held July 29-31 at the University of...

Recent PhD graduate Irene Smith has accepted a one-year teaching position at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Department of Linguistics. Congratulations, Irene!

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...

Xuanda Chen's (PhD 2025) paper, co-authored with Heather Goad, David Shanks (MA 2023) & Donghyun Kim (PhD 2015), "The role of L1 feature...

Xuanda Chen has been awarded a postdoctoral position in the lab of Prof Haizhou Li in the School of Artificial Intelligence at the Chinese...

McGillians presented at the 56th meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society, NELS 56, held this past weekend at NYU. Presentations by current McGill affiliates included:...

Two new articles by McGill linguists have been published in Language and Linguistics Compass! Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan, by Justin Royer (PhD...

Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) and Lydia White presented a paper at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference (GALA 17), at the Université de...

A paper by Michaela Socolof (PhD '24), Timothy O'Donnell, and Michael Wagner, "The idiom processing advantage is explained by surprisal," recently appeared in...

The 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) was held at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, from...

McLing is happy to congratulate McGill alum Gui Garcia (PhD '17) on receiving the Canadian Linguistics Association's Early Career Researcher Award! This award...