Faculty news
Morgan Sonderegger to join the faculty in August
It is now official that Morgan Sonderegger will join the linguistics department faculty this coming August. Morgan is completing a joint PhD in...
April 9, 2012
Lydia White in the media
The Globe and Mail’s section on Campus Research of Tuesday March 27th 2012 featured an article on Canada’s Research Stars. In a list...
April 2, 2012
Heather Goad cameo appearance in McGill rap video
A new music video, "McGill State of Mind"––just released on YouTube––features an appearance by our own Heather Goad. You can jump to minute...
March 26, 2012
Yosef Grodzinsky colloquium at MIT
Yosef Grodzinsky presented “The analysis of negative quantifiers: multi-modal evidence” as a colloquium speaker at MIT this past Friday. Recent discussion of negative quantifiers (see...
March 12, 2012
Heather Goad and Lydia White to present in Frankfurt
McGill's Heather Goad, Lydia White, together with Joyce Bruhn de Garavito (University of Western Ontario), will be presenting “Prosodic Constraints on the Acquisition...
March 5, 2012
Jessica Coon – colloquium talks
Jessica Coon presented her work on "Syntactic Ergativity in Q'anjob'al" this past Friday at Carleton University. She also presented this work earlier this...
February 13, 2012
McGill at the LSA
McGill was represented at this year's LSA Annual Meeting, held in Portland, Oregon this past weekend: Charles Boberg presented "Regional variants of the...
January 9, 2012
Bale colloquium at Brown
Last week Mcgill Faculty Lecturer Alan Bale gave an invited talk in the Colloquium Series at Brown University. The presentation was titled: Adjectives...
December 12, 2011
Grodzinsky to present in Jerusalem
Yosef Grodzinsky will be giving two presentations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in December, one in the newly formed Experimental Syntax and...
December 12, 2011
Coon and Travis to present at MIT Conference
Jessica Coon and Lisa Travis will each be presenting work at 50 Years of Linguistics at MIT, which will take place at MIT...
December 5, 2011
Wagner to attend Masayuki Gibson’s defense at Cornell
Michael Wagner will travel to Cornell University this week for the dissertation defense of Masayuki Gibson. The defense, titled "A Rise Is Not...
December 5, 2011