Faculty news
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