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Syntax-Semantics group: MULL-themed talk, 2/15 — Katya Morgunova

Sun, 02/11/2024 - 22:31
The Syntax-Semantics reading group and MULL-lab will be meeting on Thursday, February 15th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Katya will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled: ‘Bipartite negation in Kanien’kéha’. The abstract is below: In Kanien’kéha, negation is bipartite: it […]

NACLO 2024 at McGill

Fri, 02/09/2024 - 11:21
The North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO, https://nacloweb.org/) is an annual opportunity for high school and CEGEP students in the US and Canada to take a day off from school and try solving some toy linguistics problems at a university host site. McGill Linguistics was proud to host 14 high school and CEGEP students from Montreal […]

P* Group, 2/5 — Irene Smith

Sun, 02/04/2024 - 21:01
The P* reading group will be meeting againthis Monday, 5 February at 15:30 in room 002 (and on Zoom, at the following link). This week, Irene will be leading discussion on Abigail Cohn’s 1993 paper Nasalization in English: phonology or phonetics. The PDF is attached, and also available on the Google Drive. Here’s the abstract: In English, a number of rules affect […]

Syntax-Semantics group, 2/8 — Mathieu Paillé & Nina Haslinger

Sun, 02/04/2024 - 20:59
The Syntax-Semantics reading group will be meeting on Thursday, February 8th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Mathieu Paillé (in person) and Nina Haslinger (remotely) will be presenting a talk entitled: ‘Contrastive reduplication, degree predication, and the case of numeral imprecision ‘. The abstract is […]

MCQLL, 2/6 — Massimo Lipari 

Sun, 02/04/2024 - 20:56
At this week’s MCQLL meeting,  Massimo Lipari will be presenting “The cross-linguistic acoustic space of fricatives”. Abstract below. We will be meeting this Tuesday February 6 at 3:00PM. Meetings are held both in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on zoom. Abstract:  The acoustic study of fricatives presents three major challenges. First, which acoustic dimensions […]

McGill @ NELS 54

Mon, 01/29/2024 - 12:16
McGill was well represented at the last NELS conference. Presenters included Jonathan Palucci (current grad student, third from the left in the picture), Mitcho Erlewine (former postdoc, not in the picture), Carol Rose Little (alumna, first from the right in the picture), Justin Royer (alumn, not in the picture), and Luis Alonso-Ovalle (second from the […]

Syntax-Semantics group: MULL-themed talk, 2/1 — Jessica Coon

Sun, 01/28/2024 - 12:02
The Syntax-Semantics reading group and MULL-lab will be meeting on Thursday, February 1st at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Jessica will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled: ‘Long distance extraction and clause type in Ch’ol ‘, which is joint work with Juan Jesús […]

Little, AnderBois, and Coon in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

Fri, 01/26/2024 - 08:31
A new article by Carol-Rose Little (McGill BA ’12), Scott AnderBois (Brown University) and Jessica Coon was just published online at Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Title: Type-shifting in headless relative clauses Abstract: Research on the (in)definiteness of bare nouns has developed various proposals regarding which type-shifters exist in human language and which principles are […]

Welcome graduate research trainee Martin Renard

Tue, 01/23/2024 - 10:12
Please join McLing in belatedly welcoming Martin Renard, who is visiting McGill during the Winter 2024 semester as a graduate research trainee. Hi everyone! My name is Martin Renard, I am a 3rd-year PhD student at the University of Toronto. I work on Kanien’kéha (Mohawk), a Northern Iroquoian language spoken just outside of Montréal. I […]

P* Group, 1/22 — Xuanda Chen

Sun, 01/21/2024 - 21:17
The P* reading group will be meeting againthis Monday, 22 January at 15:30 in room 002 (and on Zoom, at the following link). This week, Xuanda will be presenting original research in a talk titled Laryngeal Specification on Fricatives: Evidence from Perceptual Bias. Here is an abstract: Compared with conventional phonological models that use a single [±voice] feature to represent all […]

Syntax-Semantics group, 1/25 — Ryan Windhearn

Sun, 01/21/2024 - 21:16
The Syntax-Semantics reading group will be meeting on Thursday, January 25th at 1:30pm (instead of 1pm) in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Ryan Windhearn (Concordia) will be giving a talk entitled: “Evidence from Innovation: Reconstructing Indo-European Clause Structure”. The abstract is below: Traditionally […]

MCQLL, 1/23 — Andrei Munteanu

Sun, 01/21/2024 - 21:14
At this week’s MCQLL meeting, Andrei Munteanu will be presenting “Evaluating comparative reconstructions probabilistically”. Abstract below. We will be meeting this Tuesday January 23rd at 3:00PM. Meetings are held both in person in room 117 of the McGill Linguistics department and on zoom. Abstract:  In this talk, I present Wordlist Distortion Theory, a framework for the probabilistic evaluation of comparative reconstructions […]

Colloquium, 1/19 — Heather Newell (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM))

Sun, 01/14/2024 - 19:45
The next talk of the McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series is next week. The talk will be given by Dr. Heather Newell (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)) on Friday, January 19th at 3:30PM at Sherbrooke 680, room 1041 (10th floor). Heather is interested in meeting with students and faculty. If you would like to meet with Heather before the talk next Friday, please email […]

P* Group, 1/15 — First Meeting

Sun, 01/14/2024 - 19:45
Thanks to all who responded to the poll. This semester, the P* Reading group will meet Mondays 15:30-16:30 in room 002 (and on Zoom, at the following link). Our first meeting will be this coming Monday, 15 January, where we’ll determine the presentation schedule. As always, all docs will be available in the Google Drive, including the schedule (which is also […]

Syntax-Semantics group, 1/18 — Jonny Palucci

Sun, 01/14/2024 - 19:41
The Syntax-Semantics reading group will be meeting on Thursday, January 18th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Jonny will be giving a practice talk for NELS. The abstract is below: Quantifier Raising (QR) is a standard tool for […]

McGill at the 2024 LSA

Sun, 01/07/2024 - 17:44
McGill linguists were present at the 100th Annual Meeting the Linguistics Society of America, which took place in New York City January 4–7th. Current PhD student Irene Smith presented “PIN/PEN in Raleigh: Socially conditioned unmerger,” collaborative work with Morgan Sonderegger, Robin Dodsworth (North Carolina State). Jessica Coon was this year’s recipient of the C.L. Baker […]

Syntax-Semantics group: MULL-themed talk, 1/11 — Austin Kraft

Sun, 01/07/2024 - 12:17
The Syntax-Semantics reading group and MULL-lab will be meeting on Thursday, January 11th at 1pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Austin will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled: ‘Numerals and relativization in Javanese DPs’. I present an in-progress account for […]

Syntax-Semantics Group and MULL-lab, 12/13

Sun, 12/10/2023 - 22:51
The Syntax-Semantics reading group and MULL-lab will be meeting for the last time this semester on Wednesday, December 13th at 4pm in Rm. 117 of the McGill Linguistics department, with a Zoom room open for those unable to join in person. This week, Katya will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled: ‘Factual in Kanien’kéha’. In this talk I look at […]

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