Faculty news

Several current and former McGillians presented at New Sounds at Concordia this past weekend: Walcir Cardoso, Guilherme Garcia, Heather Goad, Dan Goodhue, Hyekyung Hwang, Takako...

Michael Wagner is just back from the University of Southern California where we gave a colloquium talk titled "A Generalization of Hurford's Constraint."...

As we recently reported, a number of current and former McGill linguists presented at GASLA 12 (Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition) at...

Lisa Travis returned last week from three weeks of fieldwork and teaching in Madagascar. Lisa reports on 21 days, three cities (Diego, Mahajanga,...

Heather Goad just returned from giving two colloquia talks at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her talks were titled "A cross-linguistic examination of the...

Jessica Coon has been awarded a three-year FQRSC (Établissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs) grant. The title of her project is “Personne et nombre dans...

Jessica Coon's two-part article entitled "TAM Split Ergativity" has just appeared in the March issue of the journal Language and Linguistics Compass. Congratulations...

Jessica Coon, Carol Little, and Elise McClay traveled to Honolulu to present collaborative work on Mi'gmaq at the 3rd International Conference on Language...

A new paper co-authored by Morgan Sonderegger has appeared.  Congratulations! Sonderegger, Morgan and Joseph Keshet. "Automatic discriminative measurement of voice onset time using...

Two new papers by Michael Wagner have appeared.  Congratulations! Contrastive topics decomposed. Semantics & Pragmatics 5.8 (2012): 1–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.5.8 The analysis of contrastive...

Morgan Sonderegger will be traveling to the University of British Columbia this week, where he will give a colloquium titled "Phonetic and phonological...

McGill lecturer Máire Noonan has returned from Gaza where she attended ICALL1, held October 20-21 at the Islamic University. She presented two papers:...