McLing will be on summer break starting this week. We will return in the next academic year. Please keep sharing your fellowship, conference, publications, and other news with us at mcling.linguistics@mcgill.ca. Have a great summer!

The Department of Linguistics is pleased to announce this year’s award recipients. Learn more about the awards here and here. Congratulations all! Faculty of Arts AwardsCremona Memorial Prize in Linguistics: Chase Boles, William Zumchak Departmental AwardsU2 Academic Achievement Award: Sophia FlaimAward for Academic Leadership: Alex ItoAward for Department Citizenship: Yanran MouAward for Excellence in Research: Yanran Mou

Lydia White, Heather Goad, Gui Garcia, Natália Guzzo, Liz Smeets, and Jiajia Su presented a poster at the International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC) 5, Swansea University, May 23-24 2024, on Pronoun interpretation in English: The L1 advantage.

PhD students Terrance Gatchalian and Jonathan Palucci presented at the 34th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 34), held May 28–30th 2024 at the University of Rochester. Terrance’s talk was titled “Optional past tenses in Kanien’kéha”, and Jonny’s was “Pseudo-scoping out of relative clauses: An individual concept approach”.

The 2024 Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop (TOM 16) took place this past weekend at the University of Toronto. Presentations and posters by current McGill affiliates included: Laurestine Bradford: A source of conativity in Tlingit pluractional verbsKatya Morgunova: Interaction of negation and modality in Kanien’kéhaWillie Myers: The repetitive prefix and objectless presupposition in Kanien’kéhaMichael Wagner: Syntactic alternative […]

McGill linguists presented work at the Acoustic Society of America Meeting (ASA) in Ottawa from May 13 to 17th. Wei Zhang: Duration Imitation is not Mediated by Phonological Contrast: Evidence from a Checked-unchecked Tonal Contrast in Taiwanese Southern MinAlex Zhai: Do Individual Differences Correlate Across Speech Perception Tasks?Massimo Lipari: Spectral properties of Quebec French sibilantsIrene […]

Sixth-year PhD student William Johnston has recently accepted a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Université du Québec à Montréal. The fellowship, which begins this fall, is funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture, and will be carried out under the supervision of Richard Compton. It focuses on the comparative syntax […]

McGill students Kanontienéntha’ Brass, Sophia Flaim, Terrance Gatchalian, Austin Kraft, Simon LiVolsi, and Willie Myers presented at Iakwarihwí:saks, a workshop held May 16th at the Kanien’kehá:ka Onkwawén:na Raotitióhkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC), as part of the collaborative Kanien’kéha language research and documentation project. Presentations focused on the results of collaborative work during the past academic year […]

Lydia White, Heather Goad, Gui Garcia, Natália Guzzo, Liz Smeets, and Jiajia Su presented a paper at the 17th meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA–17), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2-4 2024, on Pronoun interpretation in English: When native speaker performance is unexpected.

McLing is happy to report graduate students who received the FRQSC fellowship this round: FRQSC MA to Austin Kraft and Simon LiVolsi; FRQSC doctorial fellowship for Alex Zhai, Massimo Lipari, and Willie Myers. Congratulations to all!

Last week, Luis Alonso-Ovalle visited UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) and El Colegio de México, where he gave a few lectures on modality, attended presentations by graduate students, and presented “Quantity DPs: Decoupling Quantities from Entities” (joint work with Bernhard Schwarz).

The 2024 annual meeting of the Workshop on Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) took place this past weekend at the University of Toronto, and McGill linguists were well represented. Presentations and posters by current McGill affiliates included: