This coming week, we have our next installment in the 不良研究所 Linguistics Colloquium series for the 2024-2025 academic year! This talk will be given by Dr. Linnaea Stockall (Queen Mary University of London) on Friday, November 8 at 3:30PM at Sherbrooke 680 in room 1041. The details of the talk are given below. Title: The […]
Zlata Odribets (不良研究所) will be presenting a talk 鈥淧assives and antipassives in Tlingit.鈥� The meeting will take place on Monday, November 4 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Zlata鈥檚 abstract is below: In this talk, I will be presenting preliminary fieldwork data from Tlingit, which offers new insights into how passives and antipassives operate in Na-Dene. […]
Our next meeting will be on November 4 at 10 AM in room 002. Alex will be聽presenting a bit of her thesis and the following聽paper: Giovannone, N and Theodore, R, M. (2023). Do individual differences in lexical reliance reflect states or traits? The abstract is the following: Research suggests that individuals differ in the degree […]
At聽不良研究所 Open House聽on Sunday, October 27th, the Linguistics Program was presented to prospective students and their parents by a strong team of Linguistics undergraduate students (LINGUA 鈥� Linguistics Undergraduate Association), Ina Zeng, Duncan Levine, Lily Pollock, Jordan Webster and Jonas Baltakis (plus, UPD Junko Shimoyama). Thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge about our […]
Lisa Travis (Emeritus Professor, 不良研究所) will be presenting a talk 鈥淰oice Restructuring in Austronesian.鈥� The meeting will take place on Monday, October 28 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Lisa鈥檚 abstract is below: The talk will be an overview of a book in progress. To account for constructions like Der Traktor und der Lastwagen wurden zu reparieren versucht (literally: 鈥楾he tractor and the truck were […]
The Syntax-Semantics/MULL group will meet at 3pm on October 21 in Room 002 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. The upcoming meeting will feature two shorter presentations. Sama鈥檃 Salama (不良研究所) will present a talk 鈥淒irect Evidence isn鈥檛 Always it!鈥� and Chase Boles (不良研究所) will present a talk 鈥溾�楤leeding鈥� Condition C in Kanien鈥檏茅ha.鈥� Both of their abstracts are below: Direct Evidence […]
At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Laurestine Bradford will present “Quantitative Analyses of Aspectual Phenomena”We will be meeting this Wednesday, October 23, at noon. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the 不良研究所 Linguistics department and on zoom at聽https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/82524506850. Abstract: The study of verbal aspect concerns the shapes of events in time (aspectual class) […]
Our next meeting will be on聽October 21聽at 10 AM in room 002. Xuanda will be presenting on the following: Abstract: Non-native speech perception requires learners to process and integrate information from multiple sources, determining which dimensions/cues are relevant for categorizing speech sounds. In this talk, I will present the dimension transfer hypothesis, which suggests that […]
The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55)聽聽took place at Yale University last week. Current 不良研究所 PhD student聽Willie Myers聽presented a poster called “‘Paul died again’: repetitive presuppositions in Kanien’k茅ha”.
Congratulations to Natalia Feu and Sophia Flaim, who presented the results of the summer 2024 Arts Research Internship Awards last week at the Annual Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Research Event. Natalia’s project was supervised by Heather Goad and titled “The Case of the Missing Vowels: Analysis of Lushootseed Sound System and Syllable Structure”, and Sophia’s […]
Open Call
SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS at the Collaborative Research Center 1629 鈥淣egation in language and beyond鈥� (NegLaB)
The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 鈥淣egation in language and beyond鈥� (SFB 1629 NegLaB) at Goethe University Frankfurt focuses on a comprehensive exploration of the topic of negation in language and cognition. The general aim of the CRC is to unravel the complexities of negation across different languages and its implications for our understanding of linguistic competence an
Call for Papers:
"Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Syntactic Change in the Diachrony of Romance"
This special issue addresses the lack of diachronic studies focusing on variation. Submitted papers must feature: (i) a diachronic study of one or several syntactic phenomena, (ii) a comparison between at least two Medieval Romance varieties, including, for instance, the analysis of contact phenomena, shared linguistic innovations, and the emergence of linguistic splits in geographically contiguous
The program schedule will be announced at a later time.
The program schedule will be announced at a later time.
Call for Papers:
Papers are invited in:
- Theoretical Linguistics (syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics and the interfaces, language acquisition)
- Applied linguistics and translation studies
Invited speakers
Susi Wurmbrand (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg)
Robert Truswell (University of Edinburgh)
Diana Hornoiu (鈥淥vidius鈥� University of Constan葲a)
Presentations will be allocated 25 minutes each, plus 5 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should not exceed two A4 pages, Times New
Call for Papers:
The goal of our workshop is to stimulate a joint effort of linguists for understanding wordhood and wordhood-related phenomena in West African languages and beyond. We are primarily focused on this particular linguistic area and invite contributions presenting and analyzing data from a West African language and comparative studies in West African language groups or in the area as a whole. We also welcome submissions dealing with languages from other linguistic areas from lingui
Call for Papers:
We invite contributions to our workshop on using large language models (LLMs) in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS). The workshop will focus on exploring use cases and proposals for how, and to what extent, LLMs might help overcome long-standing challenges in studies of how science works. The event will take place from April 2鈥�4, 2025, at Technische Universit盲t Berlin, Germany. Attendance (online and on site) will be free and open to the public but registr
Call for Papers:
In our workshop, we aim to bridge the gap between grammatical theories and empirical research, addressing the need for exploring how theoretical grammar can be used to systematically classify and investigate indeterminacy (cf. Winkler 2015). The following research questions will be discussed in our workshop:
鈥� Which phenomena of indeterminacy (ambiguity, vagueness and polysemy) can be found in grammar? On which linguistic levels (word types, sentence structure, morphological s
You can access the conference鈥檚 official program here: https://sites.uw.edu/ssla4/program/
The conference website is accessible here: https://sites.uw.edu/ssla4/
You can access the conference鈥檚 official program here: https://sites.uw.edu/ssla4/program/
The conference website is accessible here: https://sites.uw.edu/ssla4/