Brendan Gillon publishes semantics textbook

Brendan Gillon's new textbook Natural Language Semantics: Formation and Valuation was recently published by MIT Press. Congratulations Brendan!
October 15, 2019

LSA award to Jessica Coon

Jessica Coon was among the winners of this year's LSA Awards, to be presented at the LSA Annual Meeting in January. She received...
October 15, 2019

Syntax/Semantics reading group, 10/7 – Martina Martinović

The  next syntax-semantics reading group meeting will take place this Monday (07/10) at 14:30 in room 002. Martina will be presenting work on progressive constructions...
October 7, 2019

James Tanner at UK Language Variation and Change 12

James Tanner attended the UK Language Variation and Change 12 Conference held at Queen Mary’s University of London from 3-5th September, where he presented the...
October 7, 2019

McGill linguists at ICPS 2019

McLing is belatedly reporting that McGill linguists of present and past gave a number of talks and posters at the 19th International Conference of...
October 7, 2019

Jessica Coon and Tarynne Pachano in Ottawa

Jessica Coon and Tarynne Pachano were at Carleton University over the weekend where they participated in ELK-Tech, a meeting on digital tools for...
September 30, 2019

McGill linguists at Montreal Climate March

McGill Linguistics students and faculty took to the streets last Friday to join the Montreal March for Climate––they were joined by an estimated...
September 30, 2019

McGill at EuroSLA 2019 Conference

McGill was represented at the recent 29th Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 2019), which took place August 28–31 in Lund, Sweden....
September 9, 2019

McGill at Sinn und Bedeutung

McGill linguists of past and present attended Sinn und Bedeutung 24 at the Universität Osnabruk this past week. There were two talks by...
September 9, 2019

Summer news round-up, part II

Here is part II of what McGill linguists did this summer! A paper on the syntax and semantics of numeral classifiers in Ch'ol...
September 3, 2019

Welcome new faculty member Martina Martinović

McLing is very happy to welcome Martina Martinović to the McGill Linguistics Department! Martina will be around this fall as a postdoctoral researcher,...
September 3, 2019

Michael Wagner to Maryland

Michael Wagner will be giving a colloquium talk at University of Maryland on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, titled "Allophonic variation and the locality...
September 3, 2019