Faculty news

Congratulations to Lisa Travis, who will be retiring at the end of this year. Last week, current and former students and colleagues gathered...

Junko Shimoyama gave a colloquium talk on Friday, Nov. 2 at the University of Ottawa, on positively biased negative polar questions in Japanese...

Junko Shimoyama gave an invited talk at the 14th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL) at MIT last week (Oct. 19-21), which was preceded by a...

Morgan Sonderegger was at University of Oregon's Department of Linguistics October 25-26, where he gave a workshop entitled "Topics in fitting and using mixed-effects regression...

McGill linguists were at New Ways of Analyzing Variation, NWAV 47 last week at NYU where they gave talks and ran a workshop. Workshop:...

The paper "Examining Factors Influencing the Viability of Automatic Acoustic Analysis of Child Speech," by Thea Knowles (McGill BA 2012; now at Western...

Jessica will give a public lecture at the UK Biennial of Contemporary Art in Liverpool later this week. The talk, "Aliens, Fieldwork, and...

McGill linguists attended the Annual Meeting on Phonology that took place at UC San Diego on October 5-7. The following posters were presented...

Several papers by members of the Department were presented at GALANA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America) in Bloomington, Indiana, Sept. 27–30. Presentations included:...

Alexandra Simonenko (McGill PhD 2014) and Bernhard Schwarz recently learned that their paper "Factive islands and meaning-driven unacceptability” has been accepted for publication in Natural Language...

Jessica was at the University of Calgary last week where she gave a colloquium talk, "Feature Gluttony and the Syntax of Hierarchy Effects"...

McGill Linguists, past and present, attended Sinn und Bedeutung 23, hosted by the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, on September 5-7, 2018. Presentations included: Luis...