Syntax-Phonology Research Group – 1/16
When: Wednesday 1/16 at 4 pm. Where: rm 117 What: We will finish up with Jonathan Bobaljik’s Universals in Comparative Morphology, the last two chapters.
View ArticleLing Lunch is searching for presenters!
Ling Lunch, a weekly meeting which gives people in the McGill linguistics community a forum to present works in progress, is starting up again this semester in the coming weeks. The meetings have been...
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Pictures from Friday night’s dinner
The dinner party after Kai von Fintel’s colloquium last Friday was a a lot of fun. Special thanks to Oriana, Sasha and Sepideh for making this party a possibility. Here are some pictures taken by...
View ArticleSyntax-Phonology Reading Group, Thursday 2/14
Exceptionally meeting on Thursday 2/14 at 11h35, room TBA Topic: The nanosyntax of Nguni noun class prefixes and concords by Knut Tarald Taraldsen, LINGUA, vol. 120.6, pp. 1522–1548 Discussion led by...
View ArticleColloquium: Jennifer Cole (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) – 2/22
Speaker: Jennifer Cole (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) When: Friday, February 22nd, 3:30 pm Where: Education room 433 Title: Memory for Prosody Abstract: Lacking the automatic playback of...
View ArticleRegister for TOM to be held at McGill
The Linguistics department of McGill University will host the Sixth Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop (TOM 6). If you plan to attend, you must register. To register, click this link. When:...
View ArticleColloquium: Kevin Russell (U of Manitoba/McGill) – March 1
Speaker: Kevin Russell (U of Manitoba/McGill) When: Friday, March 1 at 3:30 pm Where: Education Building, room 433 Title: When phonology goes bad Abstract: The consensus on dyslexia, to the extent...
View ArticleOkuma and Su present at PsychoShorts
On March 1st, Tokiko Okuma and Jiajia Su presented at the PsychoShorts Conference at the University of Ottawa. The title of Tokiko’s talk was “L2 acquisition of the OPC in Japanese by L1 English and L1...
View ArticleMcGill presenters at MOT
On March 15 – 17 a number of McGill students and faculty will each present at MOT, the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop. Morgan Sonderegger will be presenting joint work with James Kirby...
View ArticleGarcia presents a talk and a poster at the UD Conference on Stress and Accent
On November 29 to December 1, Guilherme Garcia presented a talk and a poster at the UD Conference on Stress and Accent at the University of Delaware. Both were joint work with Natália Guzzo. The talk...
View ArticleSyntax-Semantics Reading Group – 3/15
Who: Brendan Gillon What: Complement polyvalence and polyadicity Where: Room 117 When: March 15, 3:00pm Background reading: Implicit complements: A dilemma for model theoretic semantics
View ArticleLing Lunch 3/13 – Mike Hamilton
When: Wednesday 3/13 1:00–2:00 pm in room 117 Who: Michael Hamilton What: Phrase structure in Mi’gmaq: A Configurational account of a “Non-configurational” language. This is the departmental...
View ArticleMcGill Presenters at TOM 6
On Saturday, March 23rd a number of McGill graduate students will present talks and posters at the 6th Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop to be held in the Ballroom of Thomson House at 3650...
View ArticleSyntax-Semantics Reading Group – 4/5
Who: Erica Yoon (Cog. Sci. Honors, ARIA) What: Practice talk for CLS on “Testing the two grammar hypothesis for Korean: Scopal interaction of object QPs and negation”, joint work with Junko Shimoyama....
View ArticleSyntax-Phonology Research Group meeting — 4/3
Wednesday, April 3, 4-5:30 p.m. in room 117. Glyne Piggott will present: Chains or Strata? The Case of Maltese by Paul Kiparsky (2011)...
View ArticleBouchard wins Arts Insight Dissertation Award
The Arts Committee on Graduate Students has awarded David-Etienne Bouchard the 2013 Arts Insight Dissertation Award, for the best McGill dissertation of 2012 in the social sciences. Congratulations,...
View ArticleSyntax/Semantics Research Group 4/26
Who: Alan Bale When: Friday 4/26, 3 pm Where: room 117 What: Some differences between ignorance and scalar implicatures. Background reading: Chierchia, Fox & Spector (2013) Syntax-Semantics...
View ArticleMcGill Presenters at GASLA 12
On April 26th to April 28th, a number of McGill students and faculty presented at the 12th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA 12). Mordecai Lieberman presented a talk titled...
View ArticleMcGill Presenters at SALT 23
On May 3rd to May 5th, a number of McGill post-docs, faculty and alumni will present at the 23rd Semantics And Linguistic Theory (SALT 23). Luis Alonso-Ovalle will present a joint poster with Paula...
View ArticleSonderegger presents at U of T
Morgan Sonderegger visited the University of Toronto last Friday, where he gave two talks: “The dynamics of sounds on reality television”, as a department colloquium, and ”Voice onset time: automatic...
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