Jessica Coon and Cora Lesure at CILLA

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...
October 26, 2015

Bernhard Schwarz at CSSP

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...
October 13, 2015

Lisa Travis at Cornell Workshop on Aspect

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...
October 5, 2015

Photos from McGill at Sinn & Bedeutung

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...
September 21, 2015

Jessica Coon at Gender, Class, and Determination conference in Ottawa

Jessica Coon is just returning from Ottawa where she presented collaborative work with Alan Bale (Concordia, McGill PhD) at Gender, Class, and Determination: A...
September 21, 2015

McGill Linguistics summer news, part 2

Here is Part 2 of the McLing summer news round-up... BA student Hannah Cohen was a Speech Science Intern at Nuance Communications, Inc. in...
September 8, 2015

What McGill linguists did this summer…

McGill was well-represented at the 2015 LSA Institute.  Grads Hye-Young Bang, Guilherme Garcia, Dan Goodhue, Bing'er Jiang, Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron, Dejan Milacic and alums Elise McClay and Erin Olson (BA '12) were participants; alums Gretchen McCulloch (MA '13)...
August 31, 2015

Lydia White at FLTAL

Lydia White has recently returned from Sarajevo where she was a plenary speaker at the 5th International Conference on Foreign Language Teaching and...
May 25, 2015

Jessica Coon at MIT

Jessica Coon gave a colloquium talk at MIT last week. The title of her talk was "Two types of ergative agreement: Implications for...
May 11, 2015

Sonderegger presents at Cornell

Morgan Sonderegger visited Cornell University last week, where he gave two talks: "The dynamics of sounds and contrasts on reality television", as a...
April 27, 2015

Lisa Travis at “In Her Own Words”

Last week, Lisa Travis was part of a panel for McGill's "In Her Own Words: Stories from Distinguished Research Careers". The panel members...
April 20, 2015

Charles Boberg on NPR in LA

Charles Boberg was was recently interviewed about current trends in American English dialects by Larry Mantle on the show Airtalk, on KPCC, an...
April 20, 2015