Faculty news

The Mi'gmaq Research Partnership was featured last week in the Montreal Gazette, in connection with Mi'gmaq work being presented at this year's WSCLA...

This year's Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) will take place at UQÀM, April 1st–3rd. In addition...

Lydia White was at Florida International University last week (March 10 and 11), giving plenaries at two meetings which have been combined into one,...

Jessica Coon spent the last few days of break in Minneapolis, where she gave a colloquium talk, "Unergatives, antipassives, and Roots in Chuj"...

On March 2nd Brendan Gillon was at The Ohio State University where he gave a talk entitled "Polyvalence, Polyadicity and Permutation".

McLing is very happy to welcome Francisco Torreira, who will be joining the department as a new permanent faculty member in Fall 2016....

McLing is happy to announce that Jessica Coon is one of 25 new Canada Research Chairs awarded to McGill faculty members this year....

Henrison Hsieh and Lisa Travis will head to Berkeley later this week for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Henrison's talk is titled...

A paper documenting the Mi'gmaq Research Partnership––a collaborative language partnership involving the Listuguj Education Directorate and McGill and Concordia linguists––was just published in...

Michael Wagner has a new paper out, with Claudia Poschmann, in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. The title is "Relative clause extraposition and prosody in German"...

Jessica Coon traveled to New York last week where she gave a colloquium talk at NYU, titled "Two types of ergative agreement and...