Student news
Jacobs and Phillips Fund grants awarded for Kanien’kéha research
PhD students Katya Morgunova and Willie Myers received a Jacobs Research Fund grant to study Kanien'kéha (Mohawk; Iroquoian) for their respective dissertations. The...
May 25, 2025
McGill at TOM 17
The 17th Toronto-Ottawa-Montréal Semantics Conference took place on May 10 at the University of Ottawa. McGill was well represented by PhD students Laurestine...
May 12, 2025
Austin Kraft wins Best Student/Junior Scholar Abstract award at AFLA 32
PhD student Austin Kraft’s abstract, “Pseudoclefts in Land Dayak questions,” has been selected as the best abstract by a student or junior scholar...
May 5, 2025
McGill @ WCCFL 43
McGill linguists presented work at the 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43), held last weekend at the University of Washington....
April 28, 2025
Tur, Kamath, & Reddy selected to win a SAC award at NAACL 2025
Congratulations to Ada Tur, Gaurav Kamath and Siva Reddy! Their paper, ‘Language models largely exhibit human-like constituent ordering preferences’, was selected to win a...
April 21, 2025
McGill @ MOTH 2025
The Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop (MOTH) was be held on April 7 and 8, 2025 at the University of Toronto. Presentations by McGill students,...
April 9, 2025
McGill @ [motʰ] 2025
This year’s Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Phonology/Phonetics Workshop ([motʰ] 2025) was held at the University of Toronto on April 4 and 5. Presentations by McGill students...
April 7, 2025
Myers in Linguistic Variation
Willie Myers's paper "The form and force of Kirundi exclamatives" was just published online in Linguistic Variation (and will be in an upcoming print...
March 9, 2025
McGill @ OCP22
The 22nd Old-World Conference in Phonology (OCP22) was held from at the University of Amsterdam, on February 5-7, 2025. Current McGill PhD student Cheman Sangma gave a...
February 21, 2025
McGill @ SULA 13
The 13th Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA) took place at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil on October 28-31,...
November 11, 2024
McGill Open House
At McGill Open House on Sunday, October 27th, the Linguistics Program was presented to prospective students and their parents by a strong team of Linguistics...
October 28, 2024
McGill @ NELS 55
The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55) took place at Yale University last week. Current McGill PhD student Willie Myers presented...
October 20, 2024