Mi’gmaq project report

The current work on the Mi'gmaq in the department is a continuation from last semester's Linguistic Field Methods course, co-taught by Jessica Coon...
March 26, 2012

Bethany Lochbihler to present at GLOW

Bethany Lochbihler will be presenting her work "Final and non-final phase status" at this year's GLOW (Generative Linguistics in the Old World) conference,...
March 19, 2012

Dissertation defense 3/14 – Öner Özçelik

Candidate: Öner Özçelik Title:  Representation and acquisition of stress: The case of Turkish Date:  Wednesday March 14, 3:00 Place:  Education 433 Abstract: This...
March 12, 2012

Ling-Tea 3/14 – Rachel Borden, Jeffrey Klassen, Lance Williams

This week, in Ling-Tea... Speakers: Rachel Borden, Jeffrey Klassen, Lance Williams When: Wednesday 3/14, 3pm Where: Linguistics 117 Title: The Production of Sibilants...
March 12, 2012

Dissertation defense 3/14 – Mina Sugimura

Candidate: Mina Sugimura Thesis title: Domain extension:  A study of restructuring predicates in Japanese and the role of head movement When: Wednesday March...
March 12, 2012

McGill at TOM

A group of McGill linguists will travel to Ottawa this weekend for the 5th TOM, the Toronto-Ottawa-Montréal Workshop on Semantics, co-organized by Junko...
March 5, 2012

Tokiko Okuma and Chen Qu to present at MOT

Tokiko Okuma and Chen Qu will be presenting their research at the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop at the University of Toronto, March 9th-11th. Chen’s...
March 5, 2012

David-Étienne Bouchard awarded SSHRC Post-Doctoral fellowship

Fifth-year graduate student David-Étienne Bouchard was awarded a 2-year SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship to work with Éric Mathieu at the University of Ottawa on...
February 13, 2012

Bethany Lochbihler awarded SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Bethany Lochbihler has just been awarded a 2-year SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship to carry out research at the University of Edinburgh. She will work...
February 13, 2012

Jozina Vander Klok awarded SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Graduate student Jozina Vander Klok has just been awarded a 2-year SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship for her project titled "Expressions of modality in Javanese...
February 13, 2012

Postcard from the field

Fourth year PhD student Sasha Simonenko is back from her field trip to collect data on the Finno-Ugric language, Mari. McLing caught up...
February 13, 2012

Ling-tea, 2/8 – Michael Hamilton

This week in Ling-Tea, Mike Hamilton will be presenting work from his first Evals paper... Who: Mike Hamilton What: Prosody-syntax mapping in Japanese...
February 6, 2012