Faculty news

McGill BA student Sara Carrier-Bordeleau and Lisa Travis represented McGill Linguistics at the Atelier bilingue en linguistique théorique -Bilingual Workshop in Theoretical Linguistics ...

McGill Linguistics continues to make headlines with the recent release of Arrival. Jessica Coon and Morgan Sonderegger both appeared on CTV National News last week, and Jessica...

Arrival, the new sci-fi movie with a world-saving linguist protagonist, premiered Friday. The Washington Post recently said it's made linguistics look "almost cool," and...

Join us this week for Ling-Tea at its regular time, 12–1 in room 117. Speaker: Francisco Torreira Title: “Melodic constructions in Spanish and their implication...

Michael Wagner recently returned from giving an invited lecture at the Workshop on Hierarchical Structures in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax which took place October 27–38th...

McGill linguists presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS 47), which was hosted at the University of Massachusetts...

Jessica Coon is just returning from Arezzo, Italy, where she gave an invited talk at the workshop: "What's in a Label?". The title...

What did McGill linguists do this summer? Some answers can be found below. If you didn't get your post in on time, email...

Liz Smeets and Michael Wagner have posted their upcoming WCCFL proceedings 'The Syntax of Focus Association in Dutch and German: Evidence from Scope...

An article by Jeff Klassen (PhD '16) and Michael Wagner,  'Prosodic prominence shifts are anaphoric', has appeared in the Journal of Memory and Linguistics....

Jessica Coon  is one of three McGill faculty members to receive this year's Principal’s Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researchers. "The Principal’s Prize for Outstanding...

Charles Boberg is featured in a new video, "The Canadian English Accent", made by Toronto independent documentary filmmaker, Jim DeLuca. The video focuses on...