The 成人VR视频 Linguistics Department Newsletter
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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 成人VR视频鈥檚 Department of Linguistics announces the death of Dr. Douglas Ellis co-founder of 成人VR视频鈥檚 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 成人VR视频 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 […]
成人VR视频 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 […]
Hot from the press: Luis Alonso-Ovalle and Justin Royer (2024) Modal Indefinites and Semantic Variation: Lessons from Chuj, Semantics and Pragmatics.
A new article by Connie Ting, Meghan Clayards, Morgan Sonderegger, and Michael McAuliffe, titled 鈥淭he cross-linguistic distribution of vowel and consonant intrinsic F0 effects鈥, will appear in Language. This article is based on Connie鈥檚 second evaluation paper, supervised by Morgan and Meghan.
Esmail Moghiseh successfully defended his dissertation,聽 鈥淔ree Choice Items: The view from Farsi鈥, supervised by Luis Alonso-Ovalle, on June 20.
Congratulations to Wei Zhang, who successfully defended her dissertation, 鈥淧honetics and Phonology in the imitation of tone contrasts鈥, supervised by Meghan Clayards and Morgan Sonderegger on August 6th.聽 Congratulations, Wei!
Congratulations to Ben LeBrun and Olivia Oppong, who both successfully defended their MA theses this summer! Ben’s thesis was titled “Grounding Language in Vision using Modular Probabilistic Representations鈥 supervised by Tim聽O’Donnell. He will be starting a PhD in EECS at MIT in Fall 2025. Olivia’s thesis is 鈥淎n experimental investigation of focus prosody in Akan […]