Faculty news

Jonny Palucci and Luis Alonso-Ovalle’s paper “Have causatives always project possibilities from facts” was just accepted for publication in Semantics of Natural Languages.

Martina Martinović accompanied by Emma Custer (M2), Kento Tanaka (PhD2), and Sama'a Salama (PhD3) spent 6 weeks in the Saint-Louis region of Senegal...

Professor James Crippen, PhD students Laurestine Bradford and David Avellan-Hultman, and UBC PhD student Aaní Perkins traveled to Teslin, YT for three weeks...

Myriam Lapierre and UW graduate students Sunny Ananthanarayan and Jessa Jeter spent four weeks conducting fieldwork with the Panãra community in Brazil this...

June 24-29, LabPhon 20 was held in Montreal for the conference's 40th anniversary, organized by McGill Linguistics members and colleagues in Ottawa. More...

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...