Faculty news

Several current and former McGill affiliates travelled to Argentina for Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 36, held July 29-31 at the University of...

Edward Flemming (MIT) and Michael Wagner co-taught a class on Prosody at the The 7th Crete Summer School of Linguistics in Rethymno, Crete, July 18–31. Jessica Coon taught a...

Jessica Coon’s paper “Invisible inanimates and the syntax of pronominal prefixes in Northern Iroquoian” was just accepted for publication in Language. A pre-print PDF is available...

Jessica Coon has been awarded a prestigious James McGill Professorship. Congratulations to Jessica for this well-deserved recognition of her exceptional work and outstanding achievements!

Luis Alonso-Ovalle presented (virtually) `"Hidden Structure in the Composition of Degree DPs'', (joint work with Bernhard Schwarz) at the UConn Department of Linguistics...

Congratulations to Siva Reddy who has won a prestigious 2026 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship for early-career researchers! You can read all about it here.

Congratulations to Siva Reddy who received a CS-Can Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Researcher award! CS-Can is Canada's national organization for advancing computer science research...

On Wednesday Oct 29th Michael Wagner gave a colloquium talk at the University of Ottawa, titled Prosodic focus and syntactic alternative projection. Abstract:...

Morgan Sonderegger presented a tutorial, "PolyglotDB: a library for representing and analyzing speech data" at the University of Zurich, as well as a...

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:...

Two new articles by McGill linguists have been published in Language and Linguistics Compass! Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan, by Justin Royer (PhD...

Jessica Coon spent the first few weeks of the semester in Chiapas, Mexico working with Ch’ol speakers and local collaborators on a project on...