Author Archives: Jessica

by Jessica | November 26, 2019 · 1:51 am

Invited speaker James Crippen, 11/26

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by Jessica | November 14, 2019 · 3:22 am

Invited Speaker Kari Chew, 11/19

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by Jessica | October 17, 2019 · 8:15 pm

Fieldwork Lab at CILLA IX

McGill linguists of past and present gathered at UT Austin last week for the 9th Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA IX). Presentations by current affiliations included:

Scott Anderbois (Brown), Miguel Oscar Chan Dzul (U Oriente), Jessica Coon (McGill), Juan Jesús Vázquez Álvarez (CIMSUR-UNAM): Las construcciones relativas “superlibres” en lenguas mayas [“Super-free” relative constructions in Mayan languages]
Justin Royer (McGill): La distribución de los sufijos de categoría en chuj y la interfaz entre sintaxis y prosodia [The distribution of status suffixes in Chuj and the syntax–prosody interface]

The full program is available here.

Cora Lesure (BA ’16), Lauren Clemens (Post-Doc ’14–’15), Jessica Coon, Justin Royer, Robert Henderson (Post-Doc ’13–’14)

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by Jessica | October 3, 2019 · 11:32 pm

Indigenous languages in McGill news

A recent McGill news article spotlighted Indigenous languages and the need for universities to act as allies to ongoing efforts in communities. The article features discussion with Janine Metallic, Kahtehrón:ni Stacey, and Jessica Coon, and is available here: https://giving.mcgill.ca/all-stories/bringing-indigenous-languages-back-life

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by Jessica | October 2, 2019 · 12:46 am

Fieldwork Lab Meetings

This semester regular Fieldwork Group meetings will take place at UQAM, roughly one Friday per month, organized by Matthew Schuurman. The first meeting will be next week Friday, Oct 11th at 11:00a.m.-12:30p.m. in DS-3470 at UQAM. All are welcome!

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by Jessica | August 13, 2019 · 1:46 am

Teaching at EGG

Last week I came back from teaching “Intro to Ergativity” and a mini course on hierarchy effects at the Eastern Generative Grammar (EGG) summer school, held in Wrocław, Poland. Here’s a picture of the group:

EGG group photo

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by Jessica | August 6, 2019 · 8:56 am

Gretchen McCulloch’s “Because Internet”

McGill Linguistics Fieldwork Lab alumna Gretchen McCulloch‘s new book, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, was published with rave reviews and made the New York Times Best Sellers list last week. Before Gretchen became a professional internet linguist, she wrote her 2013 McGill MA thesis on Mi’gmaq preverbs. Nice work Gretchen!

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by Jessica | July 15, 2019 · 10:15 am

Georges Awaad on CTV news

Georges Awaad, along with his new work on Chuj with Jessica Coon, was featured on CTV news this past weekend! Watch the full story here.

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by Jessica | July 14, 2019 · 1:19 pm

Bale, Coon, and Arcos López in Glossa

Collaborative work with Alan Bale (Concordia University) and Nicolás Arcos López (Universidad Intercultural de Tabasco) on numeral classifiers in Ch’ol (Mayan) was published in the journal Glossa.