McGill at Ottawa Modality Workshop

McGill will be well-represented at the upcoming Modality@Ottawa workshop later this week. Presentations include work by McGill faculty and graduate students: Luis Alonso-Ovalle...
April 16, 2012

Jessica Coon returns from Reed

Jessica Coon returned last week from giving a colloquium talk at her undergraduate alma mater Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her talk, which...
April 16, 2012

Alan Bale accepts tenure-track position at Concordia

Alan Bale, McGill PhD ('06) and current Faculty Lecturer, has just accepted a tenure-track position at Concordia University, which he will being July...
April 16, 2012

Yosef Grodzinsky to present in Aachen

Yosef Grodzinsky will travel to Germany to present “Neurocognition of language: new developments” at the Department of Neurology, RWTH University, Aachen, on Thursday,...
April 9, 2012

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