Student news
Summer Fieldwork in Northern Senegal
Martina Martinović accompanied by Emma Custer (M2), Kento Tanaka (PhD2), and Sama'a Salama (PhD3) spent 6 weeks in the Saint-Louis region of Senegal...
September 13, 2026
Welcome new GRT Cinthia de Oliveira Ishida
Cinthia de Oliveira Ishida is a PhD student at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Brazil, whose research focuses on the phonetic and...
September 6, 2026
Myers and Chaperon in ACAL conference volume
Willie Myers and Brandon Chaperon (MA '25) both have papers published in the new volume 'Pamoja tena' Together again: African linguistics after COVID, a...
August 30, 2026
Tewarihwí:saks workshops
McGill Linguistics affiliates partnered with the grassroots Kanien'kéha language group Ionkwahrhonkha'onhátie' to present three workshops in Akwesasne this summer. The first was on...
August 30, 2026
Welcome incoming graduate students!
Ziru Chen (she/her) is interested in phonetics and laboratory phonology, particularly topics in speech production and perception. She is from Zhejiang, China. She...
August 30, 2026
LabPhon 20 in Montreal
June 24-29, LabPhon 20 was held in Montreal for the conference's 40th anniversary, organized by McGill Linguistics members and colleagues in Ottawa. More...
August 23, 2026
Summer dissertation defenses
McGill linguists had a number of successful PhD defenses this summer. These included: Alex Zhai, 7/28 – "Are Some Listeners More Lexical Than...
August 23, 2026
McGill @ SALT 36
Several current and former McGill affiliates travelled to Argentina for Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 36, held July 29-31 at the University of...
August 23, 2026
Alex Zhai to U Manitoba
Alex Zhai has accepted a two-year instructor position at the University of Manitoba –– congratulations Alex!
August 23, 2026
McGillians at TOM 18
McGillians attended the 18th Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop on May 22nd at l'Université de Montréal. Talks included: Derived Object Predication: A new Type-Shifting Operation for...
May 31, 2026
McGillians at SULA-Triple A
McGill linguists of past and present attended the special joint meeting of SULA (Semantics of Underdocumented Languages of the Americas) and Triple-A (Semantics of Languages...
May 31, 2026
Laurestine Bradford at NAMED 2026 in Trois-Rivières
Laurestine Bradford presented a talk about Tlingit progressive aspect at the conference on Neglected Aspects of Motion Event Descriptions (NAMED) at the Université...
May 31, 2026
