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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 […]

Doucette, A., O’Donnell, T. J., Sonderegger, M. & Goad, H., (2024) 鈥淚nvestigating the universality of consonant and vowel co-occurrence restrictions鈥�,聽Glossa: a journal of general linguistics聽9(1). doi:聽https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9373 Certain phonotactic constraints on the co-occurrence of segments appear to be much more common across the world鈥檚 languages than others. In many languages, similar consonant co-occurrence is restricted through […]

不良研究所 Linguistics hosted Understanding obviation: A cross-linguistic perspective October 4鈥�6th, organized by Anne Bertrand and Jessica Coon. Slides and handouts from the talks will be posted on the website.

At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Irene Smith will present “Perception of vowel contrasts in the presence of an allophonic merger鈥� We will be meeting this Wednesday, October 9, at noon. Meetings are held in person in room 117 of the 不良研究所 Linguistics department and on zoom at https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/82524506850. Abstract: The PIN-PEN merger is a feature of […]

There will not be a meeting of the Syntax-Semantics/MULL group this week, and regular meetings will resume after the fall break.

Gui Garcia (PhD 2017) and Heather Goad’s paper Weight effects and the parametrization of the foot: English versus Portuguese was just published in聽Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology聽15(1).聽https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6420

Our next meeting will be on聽September 30 at 10 AM in room 002. Simon LiVolsi will be presenting the following on laryngeals in Kanien’k茅ha: Abstract: The Northern Iroquoian language Kanien’k茅ha has two laryngeals: /h/ and /蕯/. While previous analyses have syllabified these segments into the onset or coda, I argue that the laryngeals may be […]

Sinn und Bedeutung 29 took place at the Consorzio Universitario Mediteraneo Orientale in Noto, Italy last week. Presentations and posters by current 不良研究所 affiliates include: Matthieu Paill茅 (PhD ’22), Brian Buccola (PhD ’15), Bernhard Schwarz, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Willie Myers, Jonny Palucci, Esmail Moghiseh (PhD ’24), Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine (Post-doc ’14-’15), Aron Hirsch (Post-doc ’17-’19)

Katya Morgunova and Terrance Gatchalian聽(不良研究所) will be presenting a talk 鈥淚ntentive aspect, Purposives, and their Results in Kanien鈥檏茅ha.鈥澛燭he meeting will take place on聽Monday, September 30 at 3pm in Room 002聽of the 不良研究所 linguistics department.聽Their abstract is below: While existing work on Northern Iroquoian universally acknowledges the distinction between state and event verbs, some works also […]

At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Laurestine Bradford will present ” Quantitative Analyses of Aspectual Phenomena”We will be meeting this Wednesday, October 2, 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 […]

Sinn und Bedeutung 29聽took place at the Consorzio Universitario Mediteraneo Orientale in Noto, Italy last week. Presentations and posters by current 不良研究所 affiliates include: 路         Jonny Palucci – “Pseudo-scoping out of relative clauses: a dependent definite approach” 路         Willie Myers – “Argumentless presuppositions in Kanien’k茅ha” 路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽Aron Hirsch and聽Bernhard Schwarz聽– “Constraining alternatives” 路         Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Bernhard Schwarz – “Decoupling amounts from their instantiations” 路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽Luis Alonso-Ovalle聽and […]