McGill will be well-represented at the upcoming Modality@Ottawa workshop later this week. Presentations include work by McGill faculty and graduate students:

  • Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Junko Shimoyama will present collaborative work “Modality in the nominal domain: exploring Japanese wh-ka indeterminates”
  • Luis will also present a talk with Paula Menendez-Benito (Göttingen University): “Indifference and modality: the case of Spanish uno cualquier”
  • David-Etienne Bouchard will present a poster “Opinion verbs are not opaque”
  • Jozina Vander Klok will present a poster titled “Towards a semantic typology of modality: evidence from Paciran Javanese”

You can see the full conference program here.