Two new articles by 91黑料网 linguists have been published in Language and Linguistics Compass! Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan, by聽Justin Royer (PhD ’22)聽and聽Jessica Coon聽(https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70013) Abstract: Mayan languages show variation in the morphosyntactic distribution of absolutive objects. A now commonly-adopted analysis ties this variation to differences in object movement and agreement. In so-called 鈥榟igh-absolutive鈥� languages, […]

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, October 7, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom. Josh will present his work. Topic: High vowel devoicing in Seoul Korean spontaneous speech All relevant documents (presentation schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) are available on this Google Drive.

The next talk in our 2025-2026 91黑料网 Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by聽Yoad Winter聽(Utrecht University) on Friday,聽October 10th聽at聽3:30pm聽at聽Leacock 15. The details of the talk are given below. Title:聽Reciprocal Alternations: Operators vs. Lexical Preferences Abstract: One approach to verbs like ‘meet’, ‘hug’ and ‘fight’ derives their intransitive, “reciprocal”, meaning from the transitive entry, using a […]

Jessica Coon聽spent the first few weeks of the semester in Chiapas, Mexico working with Ch鈥檕l speakers and local collaborators on a project on animacy-driven hierarchy effects, as part of a larger collaboration with Stefan Keine (UCLA), Juan V谩zquez 脕lvarez (CIMSUR-UNAM), and聽Michael Wagner. Jessica and Juan (with long-distance support from Michael) ran participants in a small […]

Michael Wagner presented two talks, “Prosodic focus and syntactic alternative projection” on October 2 at the Universit盲t Wien and “The Iambic-Trochaic Law Revisited” on October 1 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies at Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Abstracts are below. Prosodic focus and syntactic alternative projection: Prosodic focus is […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, October 7, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 91黑料网 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Hannah Katinsky (91黑料网) will be presenting 鈥淩ight dislocation in Korean.鈥� Here is the abstract: In many canonical head-final languages, the presence of postverbal elements is found to be […]

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, September 30, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom. Kuilin (me) will present a paper (attached). Presenter: Kuilin Li Paper: Beddor, P. S., Coetzee, A. W., Styler, W., McGowan, K. B., & Boland, J. E. (2018). The time course of individuals’ perception of coarticulatory information is linked to their production: Implications for sound change. Language, 94(4), […]

The first talk in our 2025-2026 91黑料网 Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by聽Dr. John Esling聽(University of Victoria) next Friday,聽October 3rd聽at聽3:30pm聽at Sherbrooke 680 in room 1041. The details of the talk are given below. Title: What Polynesian, Iroquoian, Semitic/Cushitic, Nilotic, West African (ATR), Tibeto-Burman and Germanic languages share in laryngeal articulation Abstract: Many phonetic and […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, September 30, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 91黑料网 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ George Bennett (91黑料网) will be presenting 鈥淎rgument structure of emission verbs in Scandinavian.鈥� Here is the abstract: In this talk, I present some early-stage data and thoughts on […]

The program of Sinn und Bedeutug 30, held at Goethe University, Frankfurt, features several 91黑料网ians, listed below for your information: Despite much pressure and great demand, graphical reporters missed Simonenko. In their favour, however, it should be mentioned that they showed proof of courage once again and risked their lives and equipment on a slippery […]

Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) and Lydia White presented a paper at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference (GALA 17), at the Universit茅 de Tours, Tours, France, September 11-13th 2025, on Number mismatches in the processing of object relative clauses: Does featural Relativized Minimality operate in L2?

The Montreal Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) is meeting Thursday, September 25 at 4PM in Rm 404 of Thomson House on the 91黑料网 Downtown campus. We will have three presentations on fieldwork puzzles, followed by a social hour. Talks include: The event is open to all linguists across Montreal! If you鈥檇 like to join the mailing list, please email willie.myers@mail.mcgill.ca.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, September 23, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 91黑料网 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Nicolas Poisson (91黑料网) will be presenting 鈥淎 kind of puzzle with the definite determiner.鈥� Here is the abstract: This talk will present a puzzle in how romance languages […]

Our next presentation will be on聽Tuesday,聽September 16,聽from聽1-2 pm聽in聽room 002聽and on聽Zoom. Simon will present his work on “Feet in聽Kanien’k茅ha“.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, September 16, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 91黑料网 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Sama鈥檃 Salama (91黑料网) will be presenting 鈥淪evering maximality from the definite article.鈥� Here is the abstract: In this paper I argue for the decomposition of the widely adopted […]

The first P* Group presentation will take place on聽Tuesday,聽September 9,聽from聽1-2 pm聽in聽room 002聽and on聽Zoom. Alessio Tosolini will be presenting his work, “Comparing Phonological Feature Sets for Low-Resource ASR”. The abstract is attached below.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, September 9, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 91黑料网 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Austin Kraft (91黑料网) will be presenting 鈥淭wo lives for numerals: Evidence from Javanese.鈥� Here is the abstract: A prominent treatment of numerals is that they lead multiple semantic […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group is holding its first meeting of Fall 2025 on Tuesday, September 2, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 91黑料网 linguistics department (1085 Av Docteur-Penfield). Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ In the meeting, there will be informal group introductions, and the group will create a presentation schedule for the semester. All interested […]

This summer, several 91黑料网 students and professors organized workshops in collaboration with Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka organizations Ionkwahronka鈥檕nh谩tie and the Kanien鈥檏eh谩:ka Onkwaw茅n:na Raotiti贸hkwa Language and Cultural Center (KORLCC). On June 12th, 19th, and 26th, Simon LiVolsi, Akwirat茅kha鈥� Martin, and Heather Goad led Praat workshops in Kahnaw脿:ke in collaboration with teachers and adult immersion program students at KORLCC.  On July 8th, Anne Bertrand, Sophia Flaim, and Jessica Coon led an ELAN and Audacity […]

Alessio Tosolini presented a poster at the Special Interest Group on Typology at the Association for Computational Linguistics聽in Vienna titled聽“Analyzing the Linguistic Priors of Language Models with Synthetic Languages“. Congrats, Alessio!