Faculty news

Carol-Rose Little presented a paper titled "An external possession puzzle in Ch'ol Mayan" at the 25th Workshop on Structure and Constituency of Languages...

The 28th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 28) took place virtually last week, hosted by McGill University and National...

Michael Wagner's paper 'Two-dimensional parsing of the acoustic stream explains the iambic-trochaic law' has been accepted for publication at Psychological Review. A preprint...

Alan Bale (PhD '06), Bernhard Schwarz, and David Shanks (incoming MA student) recemtly learned that their paper “Monotonicity revisited: mass nouns and comparisons...

McGill linguists presented at the 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 39), hosted virtually by the University of...

McLing is very pleased to report that Bernhard Schwarz has been promoted to Full Professor. Congratulations Bernhard!

Michael gave a colloquium talk at UPenn on March 25, titled "Two dimensional parsing and the iambic-trochaic law". Abstract: The 'Iambic-Trochaic-Law' of rhythmic perception...

Michael will debate Arto Anttila (Stanford) in a "Targeted Collaborative Debate" on April 16 at the upcoming 44th meeting of Generative Linguistics in...

Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Henrison Hsieh’s manuscript on the Tagalog Ability / Involuntary Action verbal form ("Causes and expectations: On the interpretation of the...

Michael, Alvaro (SCSD), and Sijia presented their work on rhythm typology at CUNY this week: Wagner, Michael, Alvaro Iturralde Zurita, and Sijia Zhang...

McGill was represented at the 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 43, Freiburg, February 23-26, 2021), presenting the following talks in...

As part of the UCL Linguistics Seminar series, Bernhard Schwarz gave an invited talk today entitled “Comparisons of concentration and the composition of dimensions”, reporting on...