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The Department of Linguistics hosted the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, which was held June 2-6. The conference attracted about 250 people,...

As part of ongoing collaborations with students and teachers in the immersion program at the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC),...

Current McGill affiliates were well represented among the talk and poster presenters at this year's Canadian Linguistic Association conference, held June 2–6 at...

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce this year’s graduation award recipients. Learn more about the awards here and here. Congratulations all! Faculty of Arts AwardsCremona Memorial...

Zlata Odribets and Laurestine Bradford have been awarded a Jacobs Research Fund grant for Tlingit fieldwork this summer! The grant will fund a...

PhD students Katya Morgunova and Willie Myers received a Jacobs Research Fund grant to study Kanien'kéha (Mohawk; Iroquoian) for their respective dissertations. The...

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...

PhD student Austin Kraft’s abstract, “Pseudoclefts in Land Dayak questions,” has been selected as the best abstract by a student or junior scholar...

McGill linguists presented work at the 43rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 43), held last weekend at the University of Washington....

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...

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,...

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...