Events
In the Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 semester, MULL-Lab (and Syntax-Semantics group) meetings will take place Mondays at 3:00pm in a hybrid format. If you would like to join remotely, please register in advance for the Zoom link here. The schedule from the semester can be found here, and information about upcoming lab meetings can be found here. For more information, or to join a meeting, contact organizers Austin Kraft and George Bennett.
News
For more current news, see also relevant departmental webpages: MULL on McGill’s McLing blog, and UQAM’s Facebook page
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McGill Obviation Workshop
McGill Linguistics hosted Understanding obviation: A cross-linguistic perspective on October 4–6th, 2024, organized by Anne Bertrand and Jessica Coon. Slides and handouts from the talks are posted on the website.
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WSCLA 2023
The 26th Workshop on Structure and Constituency of Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) took place April 28-30, 2023 at McGill. More than 60 people attended regular sessions Friday–Saturday, and students, teachers, and…
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James Crippen hosts Tlingit potlatch
Professor James Crippen hosted a traditional Tlingit potlatch (Tlingit ḵu.éexʼ [qʰù.ˈʔíːxʼ] lit. ‘invitation of people’) on October 21st in his home town of Wrangell, Alaska (Tlingit Ḵaachx̱an.áakʼw [ˌqʰàːtʃ.χàn.ˈʔáːkʼʷ]). The event ran for 14 hours…
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Compton in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, to collaborate on Inuinnaqtun grammar project
As part of a collaboration with the Kitikmeot Heritage Society, Richard Compton was in Cambridge Bay (Iqaluktuuttiaq), Nunavut, October 20-29, 2023, working with Inuinnaqtun speakers to draft a community grammar.…
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Proceedings of AFLA 28
The proceedings of the 28th annual meeting of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA 28), co-hosted by McGill University and National University of Singapore, were published in June and can…
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McGill “Linguistic elicitation for language revitalization” course
The first “Linguistic elicitation for language revitalization”, co-taught by Meghan Clayards and Jessica Coon in the condensed May summer term, together with course advisors James Crippen, Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Tahohtháratye Brant…
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McGill MULL-Lab students at Ba-TOM 1
Students from the Winter 2022 Field Methods class will be presenting their work on Kirundi at the 1st Toronto–Montreal Bantu Colloquium (Ba-TOM 1), hosted at the University of Toronto Scarborough…
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Mini Kirundi Language Workshop
McGill Linguistics will be hosting a virtual mini Kirundi language workshop the afternoon of Thursday, April 14th 2022, from 3:00–4:30, showcasing research local on the Kirundi (Bantu) language. The schedule…
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Fulbright Fellowship for Clint Parker
Congratulations to McGill PhD student Clint Parker, who has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Fellowship for the 2022–2023 academic year, which he will use to carry out fieldwork on the…
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ACAL presentation on the morpheme f(i) in Igala
Alice Tremblay (UQAM) will be presenting at ACAL 53 on the morpheme f(i) in Igala, hosted virtually by the University of California San Diego. The full programming can be found here and…
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Banting Postdoc to Justin Royer
MULL is happy to announce that 5th-year McGill PhD student Justin Royer has been awarded a two-year Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. Justin will spend the next two years at UC Berkeley…
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McGill at TOMILLA 3
McGill linguists traveled to the University of Ottawa last week for the 3rd Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Indigenous Languages of Latin America (TOMILLA 3) workshop December 3rd and 4th. McGill talks included: Willie…
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NELS 52 poster on person restrictions in Oji-Cree
Jessica Coon presented collaborative work on person restrictions with Stefan Keine (UCLA) and Will Oxford (U. Manitoba) at NELS 52, hosted virtually by Rutgers University. Click the image above for…
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Royer et al. in Tlalocan
A paper by PhD student Justin Royer, Pedro Mateo Pedro (U. Toronto), Elizabeth Carolan (BA ’14), Jessica Coon, and Magdalena Torres has been accepted for publication in Tlalocan, a journal that…