Faculty news

McGill linguistics will be well-represented at two upcoming conferences. Recent McGill post-doc Sara Mackenzie (MUN), recent BA Erin Olson, together with faculty members...

We are pleased to announce that the linguistics department has received 3 ARIA internships to support undergraduate research projects over the summer: "The...

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...

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

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

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

It is now official that Morgan Sonderegger will join the linguistics department faculty this coming August. Morgan is completing a joint PhD in...

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...

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...

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...

McGill's Heather Goad, Lydia White, together with Joyce Bruhn de Garavito (University of Western Ontario), will be presenting “Prosodic Constraints on the Acquisition...

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...