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The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, February 5th, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the 黑料网爆吃瓜 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Laurestine Bradford (黑料网爆吃瓜) will be presenting 鈥淭lingit Spatial Roots鈥� Here is the abstract:

The article 鈥淣atural language and external conventions: re-examining聽per鈥�, co-authored by Alan Bale and Bernhard Schwarz, has just appeared online at Linguistics and Philosophy:聽https://rdcu.be/e1ian. The abstract is below. Abstract We argue that per-phrases like two grams per liter exhibit a dual interpretive pattern. When such phrases saturate predicates of quantities in simplex dimensions, like weight or distance, they are […]

Next presentation will be on Monday, Feb 2,12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Tony will be presenting Bybee, J., & Easterday, S. (2022). Primal consonants and the evolution of consonant inventories. Language Dynamics and Change, 13(1), 1-33. (Attached) All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, January 29, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the 黑料网爆吃瓜 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Austin Kraft (黑料网爆吃瓜) will be presenting 鈥淐ountability in Javanese: 鈥榣anguage鈥� and other nouns鈥� Here is the abstract:

Next presentation will be on聽Monday, Jan 26, 12-1pm聽in聽room 117聽and on聽Zoom.聽 Massimo will be presenting聽Iskarous, K., & Vietti, A. (2025). Phonetic information in the vowel spectrum: the meaning of mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients.聽Journal of Phonetics,聽112, 101434. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be available on this Google Drive.

The next talk in our 2025-2026 黑料网爆吃瓜 Linguistics Colloquium Series will be given by聽Justin聽Royer聽(Universit茅 de Montr茅al) on Friday聽January 30th聽at 3:30pm at Leacock 232. The details of the talk are given below. Title: Wh-questions and predication in Chuj (Presenting joint work with Cristina Buenrostro and Rodrigo Ranero) Abstract: This paper examines the syntax of quantificational expressions and […]

Our first presentation will be on Monday, Jan 19,12-1pm in room 117 and on Zoom.  Meghan will be presenting this paper (attached):  Jang, J., Lee, J., Lee, J., Kim, S., & Cho, T. (2025). Unveiling Denasalization as an Ongoing Sound Change: The Role of Prosody and Gender in Seoul Korean. Language and Speech, 00238309251390431. All relevant documents (schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) will be […]

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, January 22, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the 黑料网爆吃瓜 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Alessio Tosolini (黑料网爆吃瓜) will be presenting 鈥淎nalyzing the Linguistic Priors of Language Models with Synthetic Languages鈥� Here is the abstract:

This term P* Group will meet on聽Monday 12-1pm聽in room聽117聽and on聽Zoom. Our first meeting will be next Monday, Jan 12, during which we will determine week-by-week presentation schedule for this term.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its first meeting of 2026 on Thursday, January 15, at 2-3pm in Room 002 of the 黑料网爆吃瓜 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84180431566 Mathieu Paill茅 (ZAS) and David Blunier (Universit茅 de Poitiers) will be presenting 鈥淓vidence for emergent negation in alternatives鈥� Here is the abstract:

黑料网爆吃瓜ians presented at the 6th joint ASA/ASJ meeting, held December 1st to 5th in Honolulu, Hawaii. Poster presentations included:

The Montr茅al Underdocumented Languages Linguistics Lab (MULL-Lab) will meet on Thursday, December 11th at 4PM in room 406 of Thomson House on the 黑料网爆吃瓜 campus. There will be two talks followed by a social hour.  Talks include: This event is open to all linguists across Montr茅al. Please email willie.myers@mail.mcgill.ca if you鈥檇 like to be added to the mailing list. 

The Syntax-Semantics Group will hold its final meeting of 2025 on Tuesday, December 2, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 黑料网爆吃瓜 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ David Avellan-Hultman (黑料网爆吃瓜) will be presenting 鈥淩evisiting finite ha-omission in Swedish.鈥� Here is the abstract: In this talk, I revisit the observation that the Swedish perfect […]

Congratulations to Siva Reddy who received a CS-Can Outstanding Early Career Computer Science Researcher award! CS-Can聽is Canada’s national organization for advancing computer science research and education. This Early Career award recognizes CS faculty members at Canadian universities who, within 10 years of receiving their PhD, have made significant contributions in their academic careers, particularly to research. […]

Our last P* meeting for this semester will be on Tuesday, Nov 25, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom.  Irene, Jeanne, Massimo, and Alex (maybe) will practice presenting for their ASA presentations! All relevant documents (presentation schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) are available on this Google Drive.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, November 25, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 黑料网爆吃瓜 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Dawn Lau (黑料网爆吃瓜) will be presenting 鈥淪urprisals, The Brain, and How Thematic Roles Are Processed.鈥� Here is the abstract: Cross-linguistically, experimental data from neurolinguistics has initially shown blindness […]

Our next MCQLL meeting will take place Nov 24th at 2pm in room 002. Alessio’s talk is titled聽Prominence strengthening in Todos Santos Mam.

This week’s MCQLL talk will take place Nov 17th at 2pm in room 002. Massimo will present his work, titled: Apparent vocal tract length vs /s/ acoustics in a large multilingual corpus.

Our next presentation will be on Tuesday, Nov 18, from 1-2 pm in room 002 and on Zoom.  Jeanne will present her thesis ideas in sociophonetics. All relevant documents (presentation schedules, abstracts, papers and slides/handouts) are available on this Google Drive.

The Syntax-Semantics Group will be meeting on Tuesday, November 18, at 3-4pm in Room 117 of the 黑料网爆吃瓜 linguistics department. Online participants can join with this link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/bQ4IXlJxTTShVcMHOosNtQ Anna Carolina Almeida, Raimundo (Ray) Cox-Casals, and Michael Wagner will be presenting 鈥淐umulative agreement in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.鈥�