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The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, February 24 at 3pm in Room 117 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link:聽https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. Ina Zeng (不良研究所) will be discussing 鈥淢orphological Realization of Presuppositionality in Igala.鈥� Here is Ina鈥檚 abstract: In this talk I discuss the morphological realization of presuppositionality in Igala (Niger-Congo) […]

The 22nd聽Old-World Conference in Phonology聽(OCP22) was held from聽at the聽University of Amsterdam, on February 5-7, 2025. Current 不良研究所 PhD student Cheman Sangma gave a presentation titled “What’s the word? Phonology is still structured,” and current 不良研究所 MA student Simon LiVolsi presented a poster called “Kanien’k茅ha laryngeals.”

This week, we’ll have an invited talk by Gloria Melessmoen (UBC) on Friday, February 21 at 3PM at Sherbrooke 680 in room 1041. The details of the talk are given below. Title: Non-concatenative morphemes require phonologically defined strata Abstract: What is the division of labour between different components of the grammar? Specifically, what does the phonological grammar 鈥渒now鈥� […]

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, February 18th at 10am in room 117. Jeanne will be presenting the paper Gradient and Visual Speaker Normalization in the Perception of Fricatives by Strand and Johnson (1996). The abstract is the following: The role of visual information in speaker normalization of fricatives is examined by comparing listeners鈥� responses […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, February 17 at 3pm in Room 117 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link:聽https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. George Bennett (不良研究所) will be discussing 鈥淎rgument Structure in Mainland Scandinavian pancake sentences.鈥� Here is George鈥檚 abstract: Prototypical 鈥榩ancake sentences鈥� are copula sentences involving a subject (e.g., ‘pancakes’) and […]

This upcoming meeting of P* Group on February 11 will be cancelled. Our next meeting will be on February 18. Stay tuned for presentation details.

There will not be a meeting of the Syntax-Semantics Group on February 10. The weekly meetings will resume on February 17.

P* Group will be meeting on Tuesday, February 4 at 10 am in room 117 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Andrei will be presenting on some of his work. Andrei’s abstract can be found below: The traditional model of rule interaction splits crucial rule orderings into four types, accounting for the structural relation (feeding vs […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, February 3 at 3 pm in Room 117 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link:聽https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. Nicolas Poisson (不良研究所) will be presenting a talk, 鈥淭he role of metarepresentation in pragmatics, an example from scalar implicatures.鈥� Here is Nicolas鈥檚 abstract: In this talk I […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, January 27 at 3pm in Room 117 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/16ZiB1ATRMGSUxbkGOJGvw. Jessica Coon (不良研究所) will be presenting a talk, 鈥淚nvisible inanimates in Kanien鈥檏茅ha: Consequences for Polysynthesis.鈥� Here is Jessica鈥檚 abstract: This talk examines puzzles in the realization and distribution […]

This coming week, we have our next installment in the 不良研究所 Linguistics Colloquium series for the 2024-2025 academic year! The talk will be given by Eleanor Chodroff (University of Zurich) on Friday, January 31 at 3:30PM at Sherbrooke 680 in room 1041. The details of the talk are given below. Title: Harnessing massively multilingual speech resources […]

Our next meeting will be on January 28 at 10 AM in room 117. Irene will be presenting the following paper: Chodroff, Eleanor. 2024. Phonetic Universals. Annu. Rev. Linguist. 2025. 11:13.1鈥�13.23. The abstract can be found below: Understanding the range and limits of crosslinguistic variation stands at the core of linguistic typology and more broadly, […]

Supplementing the usual Monday Syn-Sem programming,聽Mathieu Paill茅 (University of Calgary)聽is giving a practice talk on Wednesday, January 22, at 9:00 – 10:00 am in Room 117 of the 不良研究所 linguistics building. For those who wish to join remotely, the Zoom link is included at the bottom of this message. Here is the abstract for Mathieu’s […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Monday, January 20 at 3 pm in Room 117 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. For those joining remotely, the Zoom link is included at the bottom of this message. Aron Hirsch (UMD)聽will be presenting a talk, 鈥淢ultiple Projection.鈥� Following Aron鈥檚 talk, we will head over to Thomson House […]

Semantics 4/Seminar in Semantics on Thursday, January 23, 8:35-9:55 in R. 117, will feature a special presentation by Mathieu Paill茅 (不良研究所 PhD 2022, currently a postdoc at the University of Calgary). Detais below. All are welcome to attend! Seminar on additive particles Abstract: One of the main concerns in the literature on additive particles (too, also) is […]

Our first meeting with a presentation will be on January 21 at 10 AM in room 117. Meghan will be presenting the following paper: Beddor, P. S., Harnsberger, J. D., & Lindemann, S. (2002). Language-specific patterns of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation: Acoustic structures and their perceptual correlates. Journal of Phonetics, 30(4), 591-627. The abstract can be found below: Three […]

This coming week, we have our next installment in the 不良研究所 Linguistics Colloquium series for the 2024-2025 academic year! The talk will be given by Dr. Aron Hirsch (University of Maryland) on Friday, January 17 at 3:30PM at Sherbrooke 680 in room 1041. The details of the talk are given below. Title: Only scope in English and […]

We are pleased to welcome Nina Haslinger (MIT, ZAS) for our first meeting of 2025 on Monday, January 13 at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Nina will be delivering a talk with the title, 鈥淯ndergeneration problems for structural alternative theories,鈥� which is joint work with Viola Schmitt. After Nina鈥檚 presentation, there will be a reception […]

Happy new year and welcome to the Winter 2025 semester! McLing is happy to announce that Zlata Odribets will be joining the McLing editorial team. Zlata will be taking over from Alex Zhai 鈥撯�撀爐hanks for all your work Alex! As always, please send your linguistics-related news to the general McLing email address, mcling.linguistics@mcgill.ca.

The final MCQLL meeting of the semester will take place on聽Monday, December 9, from聽noon to 2pm聽in the聽CRBLM meeting space聽(6th聽floor of 2001 不良研究所 College). This special edition of MCQLL will feature 3 speakers:聽Xiaoyi Li,聽Jeanne Brown, and聽Massimo Lipari. It will run for two hours, and lunch will be served for those who have already RSVP-ed. We will […]