Colloquia

We are pleased to announce that the first talk in our 2016-2017 McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by our own Michael...

Below is the finalized colloquium schedule for the upcoming academic year, also available here. As always, colloquia will take place Fridays at 3:30, rooms TBA....

Jessica Coon is returning from Stanford, where she gave a colloquium talk titled "Case Discrimination in Caseless Languages."

Lisa Travis gave a colloquium talk at the University of Ottawa last week, titled: "Determining the position of Out of Control morphemes in...

Speaker: Pat Keating (UCLA) Date & Time: Friday, April 8th at 3:30 pm Place: ARTS Bldg. room 260 Title: Linguistic Voice Quality Abstract: In this talk I will present...

Meghan Clayards returned from University of Maryland last week, where she gave a colloquium talk titled "Modulation of Phonetic Contrasts". The abstract is...

Jessica Coon spent the last few days of break in Minneapolis, where she gave a colloquium talk, "Unergatives, antipassives, and Roots in Chuj"...

Speaker: Stefan Keine (UMass Amherst) When: Monday February 8, 3:30pm Where: Arts Building, 145 Title: Selective Opacity Abstract:  In this talk, I develop a systematic account of...

Speaker: Jim Wood (Yale) When: Monday February 1, 3:30pm Where: Arts 145 Title: What is Case? Abstract: Case marking, in languages that have it, is a...

Speaker: Aron Hirsch (MIT) When: Thursday February 4, 3:30pm Where: MAASS Building, room 217 Title:  A case for conjunction reduction Abstract: And can apparently conjoin constituents of...

Speaker: Timothy J. O'Donnell (MIT) When: Monday January 25th, 3:30pm Where: Arts 145 Title:  Productivity and Reuse in Language Abstract: A much-celebrated aspect of language is the...

Speaker: Claire Halpert (University of Minnesota) When: Thursday January 21st, 3:30pm Where: MAASS 217 (801 Sherbrooke Ouest) Title:  It takes a village to raise a subject Abstract: In this...