Alumni news
Parameters Workshop
The Parameters Workshop in Honour of Lisa Travis took place Friday and Saturday last week at Thomson House, and included a number of...
May 21, 2019
McGill at SALT 29
McGill linguists traveled to California last week for the 29th meeting of SALT (Semantics and Linguistic Theory), held May 17th–19th at UCLA. Talks...
May 21, 2019
McGill at GLOW 42
GLOW 42 was hosted at the University of Oslo between 7-11 May. McGill linguists gave presentations at the conference, and McGill alumnus Jozina...
May 13, 2019
McGill at MOTH
The 2019 Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton (MOTH) Syntax Workshop took place this past weekend at Carleton University in Ottawa. Lisa Travis gave an invited talk, and Mathieu Paillé presented...
April 29, 2019
Semantics Group, 4/26 – Bernhard Schwarz (joint work with Alexandra Simonenko and David Oshima)
This week, Bernhard Schwarz will present his joint work with Alexandra Simonenko and David Oshima. Title: Factive islands from necessary blocking Abstract: Szabolcsi...
April 23, 2019
Kim and Clayards in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
This week a new article was published online in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience with co-authors Donghyun Kim (recent PhD graduate) and Meghan Clayards. Donghyun Kim...
February 25, 2019
Michael at UofT
Michael Wagner presented a keynote talk titled "Toward a Bestiary of the Intonational Tunes of English" at the 4th Intonation Workshop at University of...
February 18, 2019
Knowles, Clayards, and Sonderegger in Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
McGill Linguistics alum and current PhD candidate at Western, Thea Knowles, was the lead author on a paper published in the Journal of...
January 7, 2019
M. Schwarz, Sonderegger, and Goad to appear in Journal of Phonetics
An article by Martha Schwarz (MA alum 2017), Morgan Sonderegger, and Heather Goad has just been accepted to Journal of Phonetics: "Realization and representation...
January 7, 2019
Michael Wagner in France
Michael is back from at talk at LINGUAE at ENS in Paris, and presenting a joint keynote at the Workshop on Prosody & Meaning and SemDial in Aix en...
November 19, 2018
Congratulations Lisa Travis!
Congratulations to Lisa Travis, who will be retiring at the end of this year. Last week, current and former students and colleagues gathered...
November 12, 2018
Junko Shimoyama at WAFL
Junko Shimoyama gave an invited talk at the 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) at MIT last week (Oct. 19-21), which was preceded by a...
October 29, 2018