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