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Jessica Coon and Martina Martinović each presented work at the Workshop on Copular Sentences Across Languages, held in Paris in June. Jessica's talk was "Agreement...

McGill linguists presented at this year's Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA) annual meeting, held virtually June 1st–4th. Presenters included: Terrance Gatchalian – The composition...

Lydia White, Heather Goad, Gui Garcia, (PhD '17) Natália Guzzo, (Post-doc '18–'19) Liz Smeets (PhD '19) and Jiajia Su (PhD '19) presented a paper at Generative Approaches to...

McGill linguists of past and present gave talks at New Sounds 2022 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, which...

Avleen Mokha (BAhon 2020) and Heather Goad presented a talk titled "A structured approach to obstruent+approximant+vowel strings in Hindi" at the virtual (Formal) Approaches to South Asian...

Junko Shimoyama gave a colloquium talk last Thursday at Cornell University virtually, on “Embedded negative polar questions in Japanese: explaining the puzzling distribution...

McGill linguists of past and present gathered at UQAM last Friday and Saturday for the 10th annual edition of the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton (MOTH) Syntax...

Martina Martinović and Michael Wagner will be presenting at the upcoming West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 40), hosted virtually by Stanford...

 James Crippen will be giving an invited talk at UQAM (in English) on Wednesday April 13, 2022 from 12:45 to 1:45 pm in DS-3470 (https://carte.uqam.ca/pavillon-ds). Area linguists are welcome! Title: Space and...

Luis Alonso-Ovalle has just come back from a week at the Laboratoire de Linguistique of the University of Nantes, France, where he gave...

Jessica Coon gave a colloquium talk titled "Constraining Agree" at Harvard last Friday, presenting collaborative work with Stefan Keine (UCLA). The abstract is...