McGill linguists will be busy presenting at conferences this summer, including:
The Ba-SIS – Bantu Syntax and Information Structure conference will be held at the University of Leiden from June 8–9. Terrance Gatchalian will present work from his Eval 2 paper, “Kirundi focus-fronting and non-verbal predication” and Willie Myers will present a talk titled “Exclamatives in Kirundi and Kinyarwanda.”
ACAL 53, the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics will beheld at the University of Connecticut from June 12-14. Talks by McGill linguists include:
- Katya Morgunova and David Shanks – The Kirundi noun phrase: an interface approach
- Katya Morgunova – On the Structural Differences of kó and yúukó-Clauses in Kirundi and Kinyarwanda
- Brandon Chaperon – Negative alternation: Negation head movement allomorphy in Igala
- Terrance Gatchalian – Focus fronting and non-verbal predication in Kirundi
- Willie Myers – Re-thinking Bantu Anti-Agreement Effects: Evidence from Kirundi