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Martina Martinović and Brandon Chaperon spent 5 weeks in Senegal conducting fieldwork on Wolof. Here they are in St. Louis with two language...

Michael Wagner gave a series of workshops from May 22-23 in London as this year's Randolph Quirk Fellow at Queen Mary University. The fellowship is capped...

McGill linguists presented work at this year's meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA), held at York University May 31–June 3rd as part...

A new article by Jacob Louis Hoover, Morgan Sonderegger, Steven T. Piantadosi, and Timothy J. O’Donnell, titled "The Plausibility of Sampling as an...

The 33rd meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 33) was hosted by the Linguistics Department at Yale University on May 12 – 14, 2023. The conference...

Several former and current McGillians presented their research at NAPhCxii 2023 at Concordia University May 12-14. Presentations included: Jeff Lamontagne (PhD 2020): Returning to our feature (re)presentation: Marginal...

McGill linguists presented at the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 41), held May 5–7 at UC Santa Cruz. Presentations by...

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...