Alumni news

Bernhard Schwarz was in Paris, presenting collaborative work with Sasha Simonenko (McGill PhD 2014) at CSSP, the Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris. The title...

Here are some photos from Sinn und Bedeutung 20 at the University of Tübingen, Germany, previously announced here. Polina Berezovskaya (Graduate Research Trainee 2010-11) was...

McGill was well-represented at the 2015 LSA Institute.  Grads Hye-Young Bang, Guilherme Garcia, Dan Goodhue, Bing'er Jiang, Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron, Dejan Milacic and alums Elise McClay and Erin Olson (BA '12) were participants; alums Gretchen McCulloch (MA '13)...

Recent PhD graduate Sasha Simonenko, currently a Postdoc at LaTTiCe (CNRS, ENS, Paris 3), just learned that her manuscript "Semantics of DP islands: The case...

McGill linguists presented last week at Université de Montréal's VocUM 2014, a "colloque multidisciplinaire en traduction, linguistique, littératures et langues modernes." Lizzie Carolan (BA '14,...

Congratulations to Heather Newell and Glyne Piggott, whose paper "Interactions at the syntax-phonology interface: Evidence from Ojibwe" was just published by Lingua. You can...

First-year PhD student Dejan Milacic recently returned from Sinn und Bedeutung 19 in Göttingen, Germany. Together with his former supervisors at Carleton University, Raj Singh...

Canada received 3 medals–1 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze–in 2014 International Linguistics Olympiad, held this summer in Beijing, China. The North American...

At least three McGill students who completed BAs in 2012 are off to graduate school this fall. After spending another summer in Listuguj...

Alyona Belikova successfully defended her PhD thesis on Friday, November 1st. Congratulations Dr. Belikova!      

Several current and former McGillians presented posters at Phonology 2013 at UMass Amherst this past weekend. Brian Buccola & Morgan Sonderegger: On the expressivity of Optimality...

Mari Umeda completed her PhD, "Second Language Acquisition of Japanese wh-Constructions" in our department in 2008. Earlier this year, she started in a...