Alumni news
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
Xuanda Chen postdoc at Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xuanda Chen has been awarded a postdoctoral position in the lab of Prof Haizhou Li in the School of Artificial Intelligence at the Chinese...
February 15, 2026
McGillians @ NELS 56
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:...
October 20, 2025
Royer & Coon and Myers in Language and Linguistics Compass
Two new articles by McGill linguists have been published in Language and Linguistics Compass! Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan, by Justin Royer (PhD...
October 15, 2025
McGillians at GALA 17
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...
September 23, 2025
Socolof, O’Donnell & Wagner in Cognitive Science
A paper by Michaela Socolof (PhD '24), Timothy O'Donnell, and Michael Wagner, "The idiom processing advantage is explained by surprisal," recently appeared in...
August 22, 2025
McGill @ ACAL 56
The 56th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) was held at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, from...
June 9, 2025
CLA Early Career Award to Gui Garcia
McLing is happy to congratulate McGill alum Gui Garcia (PhD '17) on receiving the Canadian Linguistics Association's Early Career Researcher Award! This award...
June 6, 2025
McGill at TOM 17
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...
May 12, 2025
Alonso-Ovalle and Moghiseh in Semantics and Pragmatics
Hot from the press: Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Esmail Moghiseh (2025) Existential Free Choice Items: The Case of Farsi Yek -i DPs, Semantics and...
May 7, 2025
McGill @ WCCFL 43
McGill linguists presented work at the 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43), held last weekend at the University of Washington....
April 28, 2025
Wei Zhang to School of Foreign Studies
Wei Zhang (PhD, 2024) has received an Assistant Professor position at the School of Foreign Studies at Nanjing University. Congratulations, Wei!
April 18, 2025
