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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 缅北强奸 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 […]

Katya Morgunova (缅北强奸) 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 缅北强奸 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 (缅北强奸) 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 缅北强奸 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 缅北强奸 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 缅北强奸 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 (缅北强奸) 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 缅北强奸 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 缅北强奸 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 缅北强奸 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 (缅北强奸) 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 缅北强奸 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 […]

This coming week, we have our next installment in the 缅北强奸 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 (缅北强奸) 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 缅北强奸 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聽缅北强奸 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, 缅北强奸) 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 缅北强奸 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 缅北强奸 linguistics department. The upcoming meeting will feature two shorter presentations. Sama鈥檃 Salama (缅北强奸) will present a talk 鈥淒irect Evidence isn鈥檛 Always it!鈥� and Chase Boles (缅北强奸) 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 缅北强奸 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) […]