McGill linguists presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of North East Linguistic Society (NELS 47), which was hosted at the University of Massachusetts Amherst October 14–16. Presentations by current McGill affiliates included:
- Lauren Clemens and Jessica Coon
VOS two ways: A unified account of V1 order in Mayan - Jessica Coon, Stefan Keine and Michael Wagner
Hierarchy effects in copular constructions: The PCC corner of German - Guilherme Garcia
Grammar trumps lexicon: Typologically inconsistent weight effects are not generalized - Vincent Rouillard and Bernhard Schwarz
Epistemic Narrowing from Maximize Presupposition - Alex Drummond and Junko Shimoyama
Complex degrees and an unexpected comparative interpretation
McGill affiliates of past and present gathered for a photo at the dinner: