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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 UU直播 Linguistics department Abstract: A central question in the study of how language changes over lifetimes is whether […]

UU直播 will host Understanding Obviation: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, October 4鈥�6 at UU直播’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 (UU直播) 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 UU直播 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 UU直播 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 UU直播鈥檚 Department of Linguistics announces the death of Dr. Douglas Ellis co-founder of UU直播鈥檚 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 UU直播 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!

Congratulaions to Will Johnston, who successfully defended his dissertation titled “Event structure and serial verbs in Hmong” on August 13th. Will will start a post-doc at UQAM this fall. Congratulations Will!

Congratulations to Jacob Louis Hoover, who successfully defended his dissertation titled 鈥淭he Cost of Information: Looking beyond Predictability in Language Processing鈥� on July 22. Jacob has accepted a 2-year聽NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, to work with Roger Levy in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.聽 The position starts in September, and focuses […]

Junko Shimoyama presented her joint work with Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten (NTNU) and Keir Moulton (U of Toronto), 鈥淎naphoric propositional expressions: Nominalized clauses and proforms鈥�, at Keio University in Tokyo, as well as at Notre Dame Seishin University in Okayama. Junko also gave an outreach talk in Tokyo, to high school students at Junior & Senior High […]

UU直播 Linguists presented work this summer in various conferences, including: Les Francais d’Ici held at University of Moncton, Shippagan, New Brunswick Jeanne Brown & Morgan Sonderegger: Une 茅tude sociophon茅tique de la voix craqu茅e en fran莽ais laurentienMassimo Lipari, Peter Milne, & Morgan Sonderegger: Les 芦 donn茅es trouv茅es 禄 et la variation phon茅tique en fran莽ais qu茅b茅cois LabPhon […]