McGill at BLS 42

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...
February 1, 2016

Mi’gmaq Research Partnership publication

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...
January 18, 2016

Poschmann & Wagner in NLLT

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"...
November 23, 2015

Jessica Coon at NYU

Jessica Coon traveled to New York last week where she gave a colloquium talk at NYU, titled "Two types of ergative agreement and...
November 23, 2015

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