McGill linguists of past and present attended the special joint meeting of SULA (Semantics of Underdocumented Languages of the Americas) and Triple-A (Semantics of Languages of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania), held at the University of British Columbia. The conference included plenary talks by two McGill alums, Terrance Gatchalian (“Split tenselessness: tense, aspect, and counterfactuality in Kanien’kéha”) and Justin Royer (“Wh-predicates, question formation, and epistemic modality: A Chuj perspective”), as well as presentations by a number of current and past affiliates.
Talks by current McGillians included:
- Laurestine Bradford – Progressive as Motion on a Scale
- Katya Morgunova – Long-distance NPI licensing in Kanien’kéha
- Varya Tiutiunnikova – Inclusion-based definiteness in Mansi
