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P* Group, 03/25 — Jeanne Brown

Sun, 03/24/2024 - 22:06
The P* reading group will be meeting again this Monday, 25 March at 15:30 in room 002 (and on Zoom, at the following link). This week, Jeanne will be leading discussion on Claudia Duarte-Borquez, Maxine Van Doren and Marc Garellek’s 2024 paper Utterance-Final Voice Quality in American English and Mexican Spanish Bilinguals. Below is the abstract: We investigate utterance-final voice quality […]

Syntax-Semantics group: MULL-themed talk, 3/28 — Willie Myers

Sun, 03/24/2024 - 22:04
The Syntax-Semantics reading group and MULL-lab will be meeting on Thursday, March 28th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Willie will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled: ‘The Repetitive Prefix and Presupposition in Kanien’kéha’. The abstract is below: In this talk, […]

Terrance Gatchalian at Ktunaxa language gathering

Wed, 03/20/2024 - 20:16
Over March 15 – 17th, participants of Tuesday and Thursday evening Ktunaxa language classes gathered for a Language Learners Gathering in ʔa·k̓isqakⱡiʔit (Cranbrook), BC. Pictured here is the teaching team of the Thursday night Ktunaxa langauge classes: Elise McClay (McGill BA’ 12), PhD student Terrance Gatchalian, Violet Birdstone, and Mara Nelson.

P Group, 03/18 — Simon LiVolsi

Sun, 03/17/2024 - 21:57
The P* reading group will be meeting again this Monday, 18 March at 15:30 in room 002 (and on Zoom, at the following link). This week, Simon will be presenting original research in a talk titled Consonant-glide onsets do not exist in Kanien’kéha. Here’s the link to the Google Drive, and the full schedule for the semester is available here.

Will Johnston at GLOW in Asia XIV

Sun, 03/17/2024 - 12:07
Last week PhD student Will Johnston presented a poster at GLOW in Asia XIV, held March 6–8 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His poster draws on his dissertation work and was titled “Diagnosing Prepositions: Decomposing Path in White Hmong”. 

Special talk, 3/22 – Lefteris Paparounas

Fri, 03/15/2024 - 20:03
Please join us for a special talk by Lefteris Paparounas (UQAM) in connection with this semester’s Syntax 4 seminar. The talk will take place Friday March 22nd at 3:30pm in Education room 433. All are welcome! Clitic doubling as Agree: Evidence from first conjunct clitic doubling in Greek Lefteris Paparounas (joint work with Martin Salzmann) […]

Linguistics ARIA awards

Thu, 03/14/2024 - 10:22
Congratulations to BA students Natalia Feu and Sophia Flaim, who have each received Arts Undergraduate Research Internship Awards for Summer 2024. Natalia’s project is “Phonological Analysis of Lushootseed Syllable Structure”, supervised by Heather Goad, and Sophia’s is titled “Examining word order variation in Kanien’kéha”, supervised by Jessica Coon. Congrats both!

Colloquium, 3/15 — Paul H. Portner (Georgetown University)

Sun, 03/10/2024 - 21:58
Next Friday, we are having the last talk of the McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series of this semester! The talk will be given by Dr. Paul H. Portner (Georgetown University) on Friday, March 15th at 3:30PM at Sherbrooke 680, room 1041 (10th floor). The details of the talk are given below: Title: Social relations and scalar implicature Abstract:  Psychologists and philosophers have […]

P* Group, 3/11 — Meghan Clayards

Sun, 03/10/2024 - 21:55
The P* reading group will be meeting again this Monday, 11 March at 15:30 in room 002 (and on Zoom, at the following link). This week, Meghan will be leading discussion on Georgia Zellou’s 2022 monograph Coarticulation in Phonology. Below is the abstract: There is debate about how coarticulation is represented in speakers’ mental grammar, as well as the […]

MCQLL, 03/12 — Jeanne Brownwill

Sun, 03/10/2024 - 21:54
At this week’s MCQLL meeting, Jeanne Brownwill be presenting “Creaky voice across language, gender and age in Canadian English-French bilinguals’ speech”. Abstract below. We will be meeting this Tuesday, March 12th at 3:00PM. Meetings are held both in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on zoom. Abstract: Creaky voice (a.k.a vocal fry) is a particular […]

Syntax-Semantics group, 3/14 — Anne Bertrand

Sun, 03/10/2024 - 21:52
The Syntax-Semantics reading group and MULL-lab will be meeting on Thursday, March 14th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Anne will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled: ‘The structure of gradable predicates in Ktunaxa’. The abstract is below: In this presentation, […]

Syntax-Semantics group, 2/29 — Zlata Odribets

Sun, 02/25/2024 - 21:29
The Syntax-Semantics reading group will be meeting on Thursday, February 29th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Zlata will be presenting a talk entitled: ‘Functions of the Ukrainian –sja suffix’. The abstract is below: In this talk, I will present […]

McGill @ FAMLi VII

Sun, 02/25/2024 - 08:44
Jessica Coon presented collaborative work with Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez (CIMSUR-UNAM) at the 7th Form and Analysis in Mayan Linguistics, which took place February 23–24th at UNAM in Mexico City. The title of their talk was “Long-distance extraction and clause type in Ch’ol”. Recent PhD alum Justin Royer was a co-organizer.

Alonso-Ovalle, Menéndez-Benito and Rubinstein in NALS

Mon, 02/19/2024 - 13:43
Fresh off the press: Alonso-Ovalle, Luis; Paula Menéndez-Benito & Aynat Rubinstein. 2024. Eventive Modal Projection: The Case of Spanish Subjunctive Relative Clauses, Natural Language Semantics.

MCQLL, 2/20 — Irene Smith

Sun, 02/18/2024 - 22:57
At this week’s MCQLL meeting,  Irene Smith will be presenting “Quantifying vowel category distinctness using Bayesian modeling”. Abstract below. We will be meeting this Tuesday, February 20 at 3:00PM. Meetings are held both in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on zoom. Abstract:  Phonetic and sociolinguistic studies of vowel merger require a measure of […]

Colloquium, 2/23 — Andrei Munteanu

Sun, 02/18/2024 - 21:33
We are going to have another colloquium talk this semester, on February 23 (stay tuned for the room number). It will be given by our very own Andrei Munteanu. The title and abstract are below: Probabilistic Evaluation of Comparative Reconstructions. In this talk, I present Wordlist Distortion Theory, a framework for the probabilistic evaluation of comparative reconstructions in historical […]

Syntax-Semantics group: MULL-themed talk, 2/22 — Terrance Gatchalian

Sun, 02/18/2024 - 17:06
The Syntax-Semantics reading group and MULL-lab will be meeting on Thursday, February 22nd at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Terrance will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled: ‘Two Optional Past Tenses in Kanien’kéha’. The abstract is below: This talk focuses on […]

Save the date/Call for papers: Obviation workshop October 2024

Fri, 02/16/2024 - 16:12
McGill Linguistics will host a workshop workshop Understanding Obviation: A cross-linguistic perspective October 4–6 2024. See the webpage for details, invited speakers, and the call for papers (abstracts due April 15th). Contact organizers Anne Bertrand and Jessica Coon with any questions.

P* Group, 2/19 — Connie Ting

Fri, 02/16/2024 - 11:11
The P* reading group will be meeting again this Monday, 19 February at 15:30 in room 002 (and on Zoom, at the following link). This week, Connie will be presenting original research on intrinsic F0 effects. Here’s an abstract: I will present some production and perception data from monolingual English participants. Production task: participants were asked to read words in […]

P* Group, 2/12 — Massimo Lipari

Sun, 02/11/2024 - 22:34
The P* reading group will be meeting again this Monday, 12 February at 15:30 in room 002 (and on Zoom, at the following link). This week, Massimo will be leading a discussion on Christine Shadle’s 2023 paper Alternatives to moments for characterizing fricatives: Reconsidering Forrest et al. (1988). The PDF is attached, and also available on the Google Drive. Here’s the […]

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