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