Student news
Royer et al. in Tlalocan
A paper by Justin Royer, Pedro Mateo Pedro (U. Toronto), Elizabeth Carolan (BA '14), Jessica Coon, and Magdalena Torres has been accepted for...
January 11, 2021
Coon and Royer in Nominalization volume
Jessica Coon and Justin Royer contributed a chapter to a recently-published Oxford University Press volume, Nominalization: 50 Years on from Chomsky's Remarks, celebrating...
November 30, 2020
Justin Royer at Going Romance 34
Justin Royer presented joint work with Aurore Gonzalez (Harvard) at Going Romance 34 (held virtually in Paris). Their work was entitled "Expletive negation" as...
November 30, 2020
Jessica Coon and Justin Royer in “Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerica”
Articles by Jessica Coon and Justin Royer appeared in the recently-published Oxford University Press volume, "Headless Relative Clauses in Mesoamerican Languages", edited by...
November 23, 2020
McGill @ NELS 51
The 51st Annual Meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS 51) took place virtually this past weekend, organized by the UQÀM. McGill presenters...
November 9, 2020
Congratulations Jeff Lamontagne!
Jeff Lamontagne successfully defended his thesis on Sept 25th. Jeff's thesis is entitled "Interaction in Phonological Variation: Grammatical Insights from a Corpus-based Approach" and...
September 28, 2020
Dissertation defence, 9/25 – Jeff Lamontagne
Jeff Lamontagne will be defending his PhD dissertation, "Interaction in Phonological Variation: Insights from a Corpus-based Approach" on Friday September 25th at 9:15am...
September 21, 2020
FestEval 2020
This year's annual FestEval took place via Zoom. Masashi Harada, Jacob Hoover, Will Johnston, Esmail Moghiseh, Matthieu Paillé, Justin Royer, and Michaela Socolof all...
September 21, 2020
Justin Royer’s paper to appear in NLLT
Congratulations to Justin Royer, whose paper "Prosody as syntactic evidence: The view from Mayan" has been accepted for publication in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory!...
September 21, 2020
Congratulations Dr. Henrison Hsieh!
Congratulations to Henrison Hsieh, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation "Beyond nominative: A broader view of A'-dependencies in Tagalog" last week. Photos of...
September 8, 2020
Dissertation defense, Henrison Hsieh – 9/4
Our graduate student Henrison Hsieh is defending his PhD thesis online at 10 am this Friday, September 4, 2020. His thesis title is:...
August 31, 2020
Xia, White, and Guzzo in Second Language Research
Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA '18), Lydia White and Natália Brambatti Guzzo's article "Intervention in relative clauses: Effects of relativized minimality on L2 representation...
August 31, 2020