McGill at NELS 53

January 13, 2023

McGill linguists of past and present were in Göttingen, Germany for the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Northeast Linguistics Society (NELS 53), held January 12–14.

top-to-bottom: Matthieu Paillé (PhD ’22), Aron Hirsch (BA ’11; Post-doc ’17–’19); Jessica Coon; Carol-Rose Little (BA ’12; Post-doc ’20–’21); Michael Hamilton (PhD ’15); Jonathan Palucci; Lydia Felice (BA ’17); Irene Smith; Bronwyn Bjorkman (BA ’06)

Presentations by current McGillians included:

  • The ι type-shifter in headless relative clauses: Implications from Mayan – Carol Rose Little, Scott AnderBois & Jessica Coon
  • Predication, Specification, and Equation in Ch’ol – Jessica Coon & Martina Martinović
  • Modal ingredients of causative have – Jonathan Palucci
  • Type disambiguation and logical strength – Aron Hirsch & Bernhard Schwarz