McGill University ended up hosting a veritable extravaganza in theoretical linguistics this weekend: a joint meeting of the MOLT workshop in phonology (Montréal-Ottawa-Laval-Toronto) and the MOTH workshop in syntax (Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton).
Four members of the department gave presentations:
Diane Massam (faculty)
Split argument positions and ergativity
Jessica Mathie (Ph.D.)
Is plural more marked than dual? Evidence from Yukulta
Christopher Spahr (Ph.D.)
What's in a non-segmental contrast?
Rebecca Tollan (Ph.D.)
Argument structure and active vs. strict (un)ergative alignment
Seven presented posters:
Julianne Doner (Ph.D.)
Variable parameters for stress in Spanish across verbs and non-verbs
Richard Gananathan (MA)
A wug test of the productivity of Sino-Japanese assimilation
Ross Godfrey (Ph.D.)
Effects of morphological complexity and word novelty on English vowel duration
Yu-Leng Lin (Ph.D.)
Differential mapping of L1 phonetic categories and its effect on L2 perception: evidence from sibilants in Taiwan Mandarin and English
Dan Milway (Ph.D.)
Null pronouns in English particle verb constructions
Iryna Osadcha (Ph.D.)
Nominal stress in Ukrainian
Rebecca Tollan (Ph.D.)
Sonority, typology and ontogeny: acquisition of consonant clusters in Russian
The keynote address, centred on the syntax-phonology interface, was given by alumnus Glyne Piggott (Ph.D. 1974), now a professor emeritus at McGill.
Congratulations to everyone who took part!
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