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McLing is happy to announce that three McGill linguists and alumni were honoured with annual awards from the Linguistics Society of America. Jessica...

Professor James Crippen hosted a traditional Tlingit potlatch (Tlingit ḵu.éexʼ [qʰù.ˈʔíːxʼ] lit. ‘invitation of people’) on October 21st in his home town of Wrangell, Alaska...

On November 11-12 McGill hosted the second edition of “Malagasy in Montreal,” a workshop for research on Malagasy and other Austronesian languages. McGillians...

James Crippen was an invited plenary speaker at this year's 7th annual Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Morphology Meeting (Mo-MOT 7), held October 27–28 at the University...

Lydia White (professor emeritus), Heather Goad, Gui Garcia (PhD 2017), Nátalia Guzzo (post-doc 2016-2019), Liz Smeets (PhD 2020) & Jiajia Su (PhD 2019)...

Last week, Luis Alonso-Ovalle presented joint work with Bernhard Schwarz ("DPs with Quantity Nouns are Structurally Ambiguous") at a workshop ("Novel Semantic Research...

On Sunday, October 22, as part of the campus wide Open House event, the Linguistics Program was represented by our strong team of...

Heather Goad presented ‘Phonological challenges at the right edge of words: Second language learners are strategic’ at the 23rd International Conference of the...

Lydia White has recently returned from China where she gave talks at Beijing Foreign Studies University, hosted by Wenbin Wang (MA 1997) and...

McGill is happy to report that Charles Boberg's promotion to Full Professor was approved at the October 5th McGill Board of Governors meeting....

The McGill Reporter featured a piece on the new cohort of Ad Hoc MA and PhD students in Indigenous Language Revitalization last week....

McGill's Charles Boberg was interviewed for an article published last week in the Globe and Mail on Quebec English. Read the full article...