Faculty news
Morgan Sonderegger at Digging into Data Challenge Conference
Morgan Sonderegger was at the Round Four Digging into Data Challenge Conference last week to present the SPADE project, of which Morgan is PI and James Tanner and Vanna Willerton are...
February 3, 2020
Welcome new faculty member, Siva Reddy!
Siva Reddy is joining as a joint faculty in the Department of Linguistics and the School of Computer Science. He is a Facebook CIFAR...
January 13, 2020
Martina in Senegal
Martina Martinović spent 6 weeks in November and December doing fieldwork on Wolof in Senegal. She was collecting data for her ongoing projects...
January 13, 2020
SSILA Archiving Award to Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez and Jessica Coon
The 2019 Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of Latin America Archiving Award was presented to Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez and Jessica...
January 13, 2020
McGill at Amsterdam Colloquium
The 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, hosted by the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, took place December 18-20. It featured a number of presentations...
January 6, 2020
McGill at LSA 2020
McGill linguists spent this past weekend in New Orleans for the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Presentations by current...
January 6, 2020
Jessica Coon named Director of Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative
Congratulations to Jessica Coon, who was recently named Director of the Mellon-funded Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative! Read the full story here.
December 9, 2019
Heather Goad at University of Vienna
Heather Goad gave two colloquia at the University of Vienna this past week: "An unexpected source of footing in Québec French" (in collaboration with...
December 2, 2019
Bale & Schwarz in Linguistics and Philosophy
An article co-authored by Alan Bale and Bernhard Schwarz, titled "Proportional readings of 'many' and 'few': the case for an underspecified measure function," has just appeared...
November 25, 2019
McGill @ YYC Pronouns Workshop
Justin Royer traveled to Calgary to present "Pronominal classifiers and definiteness in Chuj" at the YYC Pronouns Workshop, held at the University of...
November 18, 2019
Goad & White in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Heather Goad & Lydia White have just published an epistemological paper ‘Prosodic effects on L2 grammars’ in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. The paper, along with...
November 11, 2019
James Tanner at University of Glasgow
On Thursday 31st October, James Tanner gave an invited talk at the University of Glasgow, presenting joint work with Morgan Sonderegger and Jane...
November 4, 2019