/linguistics/aggregator Linguistics - aggregated feeds en https://mcling.blogs.mcgill.ca/colloquium-11-08-linnaea-stockall-queen-mary-university-of-london/ This coming week, we have our next installment in the �����о��� 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 […] Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:10:36 -0400 https://mcling.blogs.mcgill.ca/syntax-semantics-mull-group-11-04-zlata-odribets/ Zlata Odribets (�����о���) will be presenting a talk “Passives and antipassives in Tlingit.” The meeting will take place on Monday, November 4 at 3pm in Room 002 of the �����о��� linguistics department. Zlata’s 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. […] Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:07:06 -0400 https://mcling.blogs.mcgill.ca/p-group-11-04-alex-zhai/ Our next meeting will be on November 4 at 10 AM in room 002. Alex will be presenting a bit of her thesis and the following 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 […] Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:05:31 -0400 https://mcling.blogs.mcgill.ca/mcgill-open-house/ At �����о��� Open House on Sunday, October 27th, the Linguistics Program was presented to prospective students and their parents by a strong team of Linguistics undergraduate students (LINGUA – 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 […] Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:55:08 -0400 https://mcling.blogs.mcgill.ca/syntax-semantics-mull-group-10-28-lisa-travis/ Lisa Travis (Emeritus Professor, �����о���) will be presenting a talk “Voice Restructuring in Austronesian.” The meeting will take place on Monday, October 28 at 3pm in Room 002 of the �����о��� linguistics department. Lisa’s 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: ‘The tractor and the truck were […] Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:18:52 -0400 https://mcling.blogs.mcgill.ca/syntax-semantics-mull-group-10-21-samaa-salama-and-chase-boles/ The Syntax-Semantics/MULL group will meet at 3pm on October 21 in Room 002 of the �����о��� linguistics department. The upcoming meeting will feature two shorter presentations. Sama’a Salama (�����о���) will present a talk “Direct Evidence isn’t Always it!” and Chase Boles (�����о���) will present a talk “‘Bleeding’ Condition C in Kanien’kéha.” Both of their abstracts are below: Direct Evidence […] Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:47:38 -0400 https://mcling.blogs.mcgill.ca/mcqll-10-23-laurestine-bradford/ At this week’s 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 �����о��� Linguistics department and on zoom at https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/82524506850. Abstract: The study of verbal aspect concerns the shapes of events in time (aspectual class) […] Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:46:17 -0400 https://mcling.blogs.mcgill.ca/p-reading-group-10-21-xuanda-chen/ Our next meeting will be on October 21 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 […] Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:44:45 -0400 https://mcling.blogs.mcgill.ca/mcgill-nels-55/ The 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55)  took place at Yale University last week. Current �����о��� PhD student Willie Myers presented a poster called “‘Paul died again’: repetitive presuppositions in Kanien’kéha”. Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:42:37 -0400 https://mcling.blogs.mcgill.ca/2024-aria-poster-presentations/ 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 […] Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:50:20 -0400