Faculty news

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...

A paper by Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Justin Royer has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Semantics. The paper is entitled “Random...

Registration has just opened for two new Linguistics courses to be taught by incoming professor James Crippen this winter: an introductory undergraduate course LING...

A paper by Jessica Coon, Nico Baier (McGill postdoc '18–'19), and Ted Levin has been accepted for publication in the journal Language. The paper is...

James McGill Professor Emeritus Lydia White appears on a recently published list of the top 2% of academics in the world, as determined by...

Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Paula Menéndez-Benito's handbook article on free choice items, to appear in the The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics, went online in...