Student news

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

McGill linguists spent this past weekend in New Orleans for the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Presentations by current...

Last Tuesday, Francesco Gentile successfully defended his PhD thesis "Modal Adjectives and the Grammar of Non-local Modification”. Congratulations Francesco!

Please join us for the PhD Oral Defense of Francesco Gentile, Monday, December 9th, 2019 at 2:30 pm in the Ferrier Bldg. Rm. 456. The dissertation is...

Congratulations to newly-minted Dr. Liz Smeets, who recently defended her dissertation "Conditions on L1 transfer in L2 discourse-syntax mappings: The case of Clitic...