Student news
Tanner, Sonderegger, Stuart-Smith, and Fruehwald in “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence”
A new paper by James Tanner, Morgan Sonderegger, Jane Stuart-Smith (Glasgow), and Josef Fruehwald (Kentucky), entitled “Toward ‘English’ phonetics: variability in pre-consonantal voicing...
June 1, 2020
Congratulations student grant recipients!
McGill Linguistics graduate students had a successful round of funding applications! Students awarded grants include: Emily Goodwin, supervised by Tim O’Donnell and Siva...
May 11, 2020
Jeff LaMontagne accepts tenure-track position at Indiana University Bloomington
McLing is happy to report that PhD student Jeff LaMontagne has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of French and Italian at Indiana University...
April 20, 2020
McGill at WCCFL
Jacob Hoover and Mathieu Paillé traveled to Vancouver last weekend for the 2020 meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), held at...
March 16, 2020
Morgan Sonderegger and James Tanner at SPADE-PAC-PFC Workshop
Morgan Sonderegger and James Tanner traveled to Glasgow to give two talks at the SPADE-PAC-PFC Workshop, held at the University of Glasgow 20-21st February: Morgan...
March 2, 2020
Clint Parker to appear in Glossa
Congratulations to Clint Parker, whose paper "Vestigial ergativity in Shughni: At the intersection of alignment, clitic doubling, and feature-driven movement" has been accepted for...
March 2, 2020
Congratulations Jacob Hoover and Bing’er Jiang
Belated congratulations to Jacob Hoover and Bing'er Jiang, who were both awarded CRBLM Graduate Student Stipends in December 2019 for their computational modeling projects.
February 17, 2020
Morgan Sonderegger at Digging into Data Challenge Conference
Morgan Sonderegger was at the Round Four Digging into Data Challenge Conference last week to present the SPADE project, of which Morgan is PI and James Tanner and Vanna Willerton are...
February 3, 2020
Welcome Daniel Edmiston!
A warm welcome to Daniel Edmiston, who is a visiting PhD student this term. His (self-)introduction follows: "I'm a PhD Candidate at the...
January 27, 2020
McGill at Amsterdam Colloquium
The 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, hosted by the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam, took place December 18-20. It featured a number of presentations...
January 6, 2020
McGill at LSA 2020
McGill linguists spent this past weekend in New Orleans for the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Presentations by current...
January 6, 2020
Francesco Gentile’s PhD defence
Last Tuesday, Francesco Gentile successfully defended his PhD thesis "Modal Adjectives and the Grammar of Non-local Modification”. Congratulations Francesco!
December 16, 2019