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Katya Morgunova (不良研究所) will be presenting a talk 鈥淭opics in Kanien鈥檏茅ha sentential complementation.鈥� The meeting will take place on Monday, December 9 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Katya’s abstract is below: Kanien鈥檏茅ha has two types of complement clauses: clauses headed by a verb with the Optative modal prefix, and clauses introduced by the complementizer tsi. Previously, […]

Austin Kraft (不良研究所) will be presenting a talk 鈥淕eneralizing measurement in Javanese.鈥� The meeting will take place on Monday, December 2 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Austin鈥檚 abstract is below: Javanese (Malayo-Polynesian) allows numerals in pre- and post-nominal position. I propose that numeral position tracks a measurement/individuation distinction: among DPs containing numerals, those with […]

Our next (and final of the semester) meeting will be on Dec 2 at 10 AM in room 002. Ray will be presenting the following paper (attached). Labrune, L. (2012). Questioning the universality of the syllable: evidence from Japanese. Phonology, 29(1), 113-152. Ray will be present some critical review of this paper. See the following […]

Anne Bertrand (UBC) will be presenting a talk 鈥淎 vector-space semantics for scalar expressions in Ktunaxa.鈥� The meeting will take place on Monday, November 25 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Anne鈥檚 abstract is below: Ktunaxa, a language isolate spoken in the Columbia River basin in Canada and the United States, exhibits robust evidence for […]

Our next meeting will be on November 25 at 10 AM in room 002. Austin will be presenting the paper Jardine et al. 2015. Banyaduq Prestopped Nasals: Synchrony and Diachrony. The paper is attached. A brief description of Austin’s presentation is the following: Abstract: A salient feature of Borneo鈥檚 Land Dayak languages is the presence […]

Our next meeting will be on November 18 at 10 AM in room 002. Alysia will be presenting on a variety of different theories of sC clusters and how their phonological/phonetic behaviour may be accounted for. There will also be a Zoom link open for this meeting at the following link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84909674564

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. Karlos Arregi (University of Chicago) on Friday, November 22 at 3:30PM at Sherbrooke 680 in room 1041. The details of the talk are given below. Title: The relation between […]

Brandon Chaperon (不良研究所) will be presenting a talk 鈥渧–al-ency precognition in Wolof: How much argument structure does a root encode?鈥� The meeting will take place on Monday, November 18 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Brandon鈥檚 abstract is below: Wolof (West-Atlantic; Senegambian) has a morphological syncretism between causatives and benefactives (common in many languages; Jerro, 2017). […]

At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Amanda Doucette will present ” Causal Discovery in the Lexicon: Data, Conditional Independence, and Missingness.鈥� We will be meeting this Wednesday, November 13, 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: In this talk, I will present some […]

The 13th Semantics of Under-represented Languages of the Americas (SULA) took place at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florian贸polis, SC, Brazil on October 28-31, 2004. Presentations by current 不良研究所 graduate students include:

Our next meeting will be on November 11 at 10 AM in room 002. Massimo will be presenting the following paper (attached): Gubian, M., Torreira, F., Boves, L. 2015. Using Functional Data Analysis for investigating multidimensional dynamic phonetic contrasts. The abstract is the following: The study of phonetic contrasts and related phenomena, e.g. inter- and […]

Martina Martinovi膰 (不良研究所) will be presenting a talk 鈥淐litics in Wolof: Syntax all the way up.鈥� The meeting will take place on Monday, November 11 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Martina鈥檚 abstract is below: This talk explores the properties and placement of Wackernagel-like clitics in the Niger-Congo language Wolof. I affirm the proposal initially put […]