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McGill Linguistics team for the Terry Fox Run
This year the McGill Linguistics Department is organizing a team for the Terry Fox Run in Montreal, in support of cancer research. The...
September 3, 2013
Welcome new McLing grad editor Dan Goodhue
Though we are sad to say goodbye to last year's grad editor Brian Buccola (who is moving on to become a McGWPL editor),...
September 10, 2012
Two upcoming linguistics-related film screenings
In conjunction with the Montreal First Peoples’ Festival (Présence Autochtone), there will be a lecture by Daniel Everett (Bentley University), as well as a...
July 23, 2012
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
Reading room book donation
Friday morning, boxes of books were removed from our old reading room and sent to Cebu Normal University in the Philippines. After attempting...
February 20, 2012
Montreal ranked among top student cities
Montreal was rated the best city for students in Canada, and tenth world-wide. The survey, conducted by the British firm QS, is reported...
February 20, 2012
Welcome Emily Elfner!
Emily just finished her Ph.D. on "Syntax-prosody interactions in Irish" at UMass Amherst, and is now starting a SSHRC-funded postdoc here at McGill...
January 23, 2012
Holiday party
Junko Shimoyama and Bernhard Schwarz hosted this year's Holiday Party before the break. Students, staff, and faculty were all in attendance. These pictures...
January 9, 2012
Welcome Galit Agmon!
We are pleased to (belatedly) welcome Galit Agmon, a visiting student who came to McGill for the year from the Interdisciplinary Center for...
December 12, 2011
McGill to host Linguistics Olympiad
McGill will host a regional portion of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad this spring. What does this mean? Here's a quote from...
December 5, 2011
Linguists grow mustaches for Movember
As part of Movember, McGill linguists are growing mustaches to raise money for prostate cancer research. The McGill Linguistics Movember team consists of Alan...
November 28, 2011
Deadline for Application to Ph.D. and M.A. Program: December 15
The deadline for applying to our graduate programs is earlier than in previous years: applications are due on December 15, which is approaching...
November 14, 2011