Faculty news

The 26th Workshop on Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) took place this past weekend at McGill. More than 60...

James Crippen gave a colloquium talk on Thursday, April 20 at Cornell University. The talk was titled “The syntax of complex verb morphology...

The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska has been offering an online class in the Tlingit language taught by...

The Arts Life Magazine of the McGill Faculty of Arts interviewed James Crippen on the upcoming Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages...

Lydia White gave a plenary talk titled "Assessing linguistic competence: why and how" at the 15th Meeting of the Illinois Language and Linguistics...

McGill linguists were involved in a group presentation at the 2023 International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), which took place virtually...

Congratulations to Bernard Schwarz, whose article “Structure preservation in complex prefields: A note on Müller (2018)” has just been published in Natural Language &...

A new paper co-authored by Esmail Moghiseh, Morgan Sonderegger, and Michael Wagner has just been published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society...

Jessica gave colloquium talks at UCSD and NYU last week. The title of the talk was "Agreement restrictions through feature gluttony", the abstract...

McGill linguists of past and present were in Göttingen, Germany for the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS 53), held...

McGill linguists presented work at Sinn und Bedeutung 27, hosted September 14–16th at Charles University in Prague. Recent post-doc Alexander Göbel and Michael...

Professor James A. Crippen presented a talk titled Ḵaachx̱an.áakʼw X̱ʼéidáx̱: Some Dialect Features Of Wrangell Tlingit, detailing some distinctive dialect features of the undocumented...