Faculty news

Junko Shimoyama gave a colloquium talk last Thursday at Cornell University virtually, on “Embedded negative polar questions in Japanese: explaining the puzzling distribution...

McGill linguists of past and present gathered at UQAM last Friday and Saturday for the 10th annual edition of the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton (MOTH) Syntax...

Martina Martinović and Michael Wagner will be presenting at the upcoming West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 40), hosted virtually by Stanford...

 James Crippen will be giving an invited talk at UQAM (in English) on Wednesday April 13, 2022 from 12:45 to 1:45 pm in DS-3470 (https://carte.uqam.ca/pavillon-ds). Area linguists are welcome! Title: Space and...

Luis Alonso-Ovalle has just come back from a week at the Laboratoire de Linguistique of the University of Nantes, France, where he gave...

Jessica Coon gave a colloquium talk titled "Constraining Agree" at Harvard last Friday, presenting collaborative work with Stefan Keine (UCLA). The abstract is...

A new book by Charles Boberg, Accent in North American Film and Television A Sociophonetic Analysis, has just been published by Cambridge University Press. Congrats...

The most recent issue of Journal of Semantics (volume 38, issue 4) contains two new articles by McGill linguists, both collaborations between students and...

McGill linguists presented at this year's meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, held this past weekend in hybrid format in Washington DC....

James Crippen was interviewed by CBC News in a piece about the lack of updates to the Canadian English Dictionary, emphasizing that it...

A paper by Martina Martinović titled "Reversibility in specificational copular sentences and pseudoclefts" has been accepted for publication in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. The abstract is...