Faculty news

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...

Jessica Coon and BA Honours student Cora Lesure are at the University of Texas at Austin this week for the 7th Conference on Indigenous Languages of...

Bernhard Schwarz was in Paris, presenting collaborative work with Sasha Simonenko (McGill PhD 2014) at CSSP, the Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique à Paris. The title...

Lisa Travis was one of the invited speakers at last weekend's Cornell Workshop on Aspect. The title of her talk was: "Using morphophonological evidence...

Here are some photos from Sinn und Bedeutung 20 at the University of Tübingen, Germany, previously announced here. Polina Berezovskaya (Graduate Research Trainee 2010-11) was...