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Andrei Munteanu presented the results of a聽project conducted by last year’s LING 630 class at the 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics: Structure, Use, and Meaning (SUM) on September 20th, in Transilvania University of Bra葯ov (Romania).聽 Munteanu, Andrei; Kim, Andrea; LeBrun, Benjamin; LiVolsi, Simon & Jackson Mundie. “Partial voicing neutralization in unstressed stop-nasal […]

Our next meeting will be on聽September 23 at 10 AM in room 002.聽Meghan聽will be presenting the following paper (attached). Myers, E. B., Olson, H. E., & Scapetis-Tycer, J. (2024). Individual Differences in Accent Imitation. Open Mind, 8, 1084-1106. Abstract: All talkers show some flexibility in their speech, and the ability to imitate an unfamiliar accent […]

George Bennett (不良研究所) will present a talk 鈥淐ase and agreement in Scandinavian pancake sentences鈥�.  The meeting will take place on Monday, September 23 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. George鈥檚 abstract is below: Pancake sentences are copula constructions in which the predicative adjective (e.g., yummy) bears default phi-features and the subject (e.g., pancakes) is interpreted as denoting a contextually […]

Lydia White, Heather Goad, Gui Garcia, Nat谩lia Guzzo, Liz Smeets and Jiajia Su presented a paper at聽GALA 16, NOVA University of Lisbon, Sept. 12-14 2024, on聽Pronoun interpretation in English: Is prosody enough?

Irene Smith and James Tanner (PhD 2020) presented at Interspeech 2024, September 1-5, in Kos, Greece. The titles of the talks are below. Irene Smith,聽Morgan Sonderegger, and The SPADE Consortium. Modelled Multivariate Overlap: A method for measuring vowel merger.James Tanner, Morgan Sonderegger,聽Jane Stuart-Smith, Tyler Kendall, JeffMielke, Robin Dodsworth, Erik Thomas. Exploring the anatomy of articulation […]

At this week鈥檚 MCQLL meeting, Gaurav Kamath will present “When Words Change Meaning, Age (Almost) Doesn’t Matter”We will be meeting this Wednesday, September 18, at noon. Meetings are held both in person in room 117 of the 不良研究所 Linguistics department Abstract: A central question in the study of how language changes over lifetimes is whether […]

不良研究所 will host Understanding Obviation: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, October 4鈥�6 at 不良研究所’s Thomson House. The full program is now available here. All are welcome to attend, but requested to register by September 22nd. Obviation is perhaps most commonly discussed in connection with languages of the Algonquian family in which (i) multiple 3rd person nominals in […]

This week, Laurestine Bradford (不良研究所) will be presenting a MULL-themed talk 鈥淲hat are the eventuality classes of Tlingit?鈥�.  The meeting will take place on Monday, September 16 at 3pm in Room 002 of the 不良研究所 linguistics department. Laurestine鈥檚 abstract is below: In terms of eventuality class (or lexical aspect, or aktionsart), Tlingit verbs broadly fall into four groups: achievement, activity, state, […]

This coming week, we are starting off the 不良研究所 Linguistics Colloquium series for the 2024-2025 academic year! Our first talk will be given by Dr. Georgia Zellou (UC Davis) on Friday, September 13th at 3:30PM. Details on the location will be announced shortly. The details of the talk are given below.聽 Title: Linguistic and social […]

This week, Richard Compton (UQAM) will be presenting a MULL-themed talk entitled “Collaborating on a Kangiryuarmiutun dictionary & Research Ethics and REB Approval for Linguistic Fieldwork” at 3pm in room 002 of the Linguistics department. The abstract is below: In the first half hour I鈥檒l present an overview of a collaboration with Inuvialuit community linguist Emily Kudlak to create […]

Last week,聽Brandon Chaperon聽presented work-in-progress titled “Irrealis mood enclosed negation in Igala” at the聽SNAG 2024聽workshop, held September 5-6 by the Laboratoire de linguistique formelle at University Paris Cit茅.

Douglas Ellis, December 6, 1923 鈥� May 31, 2024 It is with sadness that 不良研究所鈥檚 Department of Linguistics announces the death of Dr. Douglas Ellis co-founder of 不良研究所鈥檚 Department of Linguistics. Born in 1923 in Shawville, Quebec, Douglas Ellis was educated at Montreal Public Schools and at the High School of Montreal. He held […]

The Syntax-Semantics/MULL group will hold its first meeting on Tuesday September 3rd at 3pm in room 002 of the linguistics building. After introductions and planning the presentation schedule, the group will head to Thomson House for happy hour. Students and faculty from UQAM, Concordia, and UdeM have also been invited. For those wishing to attend the planning […]

PhD student Laurestine Bradford and Dz茅iwsh James Crippen travelled to Teslin, Yukon (Tlingit: Deisleen [t猫藧sl矛藧n]) for two weeks in July. They worked with fluent Tlingit speakers Sam Johnston and Margaret Bob on Tlingit verb semantics. The elicitation sessions focused on event culmination, perfective and imperfective aspect, and pluractionality. The trip was supported by a 不良研究所 Graduate […]

McLing is happy to welcome three new graduate students to the Linguistics program, and one to the Ad Hoc MA in Indigenous Language Revitalization! Nicolas Poisson (he/him) is particularly interested in logic, formal semantics and pragmatics, specifically topics like presupposition, scalar implicatures, questions and conditionals. He studied in a multidisciplinary Bachelor’s program in Marseille (France), […]

Congratulations to Henrison Hsieh (PhD 2020,聽Beyond Nominative: A broader view of Tagalog A-bar-dependencies), who has recently started as an Assistant Professor at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan!

As of June, Eva Portelance started a position as Assistant Professor of machine learning in the Decision Sciences department at HEC Montr茅al and Mila 鈥� Quebec AI Institute. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow with Timothy J. O鈥橠onnell and Siva Reddy. Eva is also a BA Honours alumnus in the department from 2017.

A new article by Martina Martinovi膰 was published online in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11049-023-09605-1) Title: Exhaustive control as movement: The case of Wolof Abstract: This paper investigates control constructions in the Niger-Congo language Wolof, which offers several insights into the phenomenon of control. First, I show that one and the same predicate can […]

The 2024鈥�2025 Linguistics Colloquium Schedule is now available on the departmental page: /linguistics/events/colloquium-series.

Michaela Socolof successfully defended her dissertation “Partial compositionality” on July 23. In September she will be starting a 2-year NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, supervised by Roger Levy. Congratulations Michaela!