Talks

In conjunction with the Montreal First Peoples’ Festival (Présence Autochtone), there will be a lecture by Daniel Everett (Bentley University), as well as a...

Speaker: Tokiko Okuma When: Friday, May 11th at 2pm Where: Linguistics 002 Title: "L2 Acquisition of Japanese noun accents by L1 English learners"...

Jessica Coon returned last week from giving a colloquium talk at her undergraduate alma mater Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her talk, which...

Speaker: Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge) When: Friday, April 13 at 3:30PM Where: Arts 150 Title: The Significance of What Hasn’t Happened (joint...

Speaker: Tanya Slavin When: Wednesday 3/28, 3:00pm Where: Linguistics 117 Title: On possession and noun incorporation in Ojicree

Speaker: Jason Merchant When: Friday, 3/30 at 3:30pm Where: Education 433 Title: More comparatives than you can shake a stick at: The case...

This Thursday evening––in keeping with the many Algonquian-related events happening this week––we will have a mini Algonquian workshop to showcase some of the...

Speaker: Tanya Slavin Title: "Deriving Object Experiencer verbs in Ojicree" When: March 23rd at 3:30PM Where: Leacock rm. 14. Abstract: In this talk...

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,...

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

Speaker: Jonathan Howell (McGill) When: Friday, March 16 at 3:30 pm Where: Leacock Building, room 232 Title: Acoustic classification of contrastive focus: On...

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