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As the academic year wraps up, Jeanne and Morgan are stepping down as co-editors of McLing 鈥� thank you for your service! We’re happy to share that Sama’a will be joining as student co-editor in the fall, alongside Jessica, who will be returning as faculty editor. McLing will be on summer break starting this week. […]

Recent PhD graduate聽Irene Smith聽has accepted a one-year teaching position at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Department of Linguistics.聽Congratulations, Irene!

Jessica Coon鈥檚 paper 鈥淚nvisible inanimates and the syntax of pronominal prefixes in Northern Iroquoian鈥� was just accepted for publication in聽Language.聽A pre-print PDF is聽available here. Congratulations, Jessica!

麻豆社ians attended the 18th聽Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop on May 22nd at l’Universit茅 de Montr茅al. Talks included:

麻豆社 linguists of past and present attended the special joint meeting of SULA (Semantics of Underdocumented Languages of the Americas) and Triple-A (Semantics of Languages of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania), held at the University of British Columbia. The conference included plenary talks by two 麻豆社 alums, Terrance Gatchalian (鈥淪plit tenselessness: tense, aspect, and counterfactuality in Kanien鈥檏茅ha”) and Justin Royer (鈥淲h-predicates, […]

Laurestine Bradford presented a talk about Tlingit progressive aspect at the conference on Neglected Aspects of Motion Event Descriptions (NAMED) at the Universit茅 du Qu茅bec Trois-Rivi猫res on May 21st. Her talk was titled “Motion Verbs Without Fact of Motion”.

Jeanne Brown gave an invited talk at the 190th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), held May 11鈥�15 in Philadelphia. Her talk was titled, “Rethinking ‘young women’s creak’: Piecing together production, perception, and social evidence.” The talk received media coverage in the ASA 190th press release, Ars Technica and New Scientist! Abstract: Since […]

麻豆社 linguistics was well represented at the 44th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 44), which took place May 6鈥�8 at the Universidad Nacional Aut贸noma de M茅xico in Mexico City. Presentations by current affiliates included: The full program is available here: https://wccfl44.github.io/WCCFL44/program.html

Current and former 麻豆社ians were well represented at the 18th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference which took place at the University of Cambridge, April 16-18 2026. Vera Yunxiao Xia (BA 2018) & Lydia White presented a paper on Relativized Minimality and Featural Mismatches in L2: Is There an Age Advantage? Yanran Mou (BA 2024) & Heather […]

Xuanda Chen’s (PhD 2025) paper, co-authored with Heather Goad, David Shanks (MA 2023) & Donghyun Kim (PhD 2015), “The role of L1 feature specification in naive L2 vowel perception: Evidence from feature fission and fusion” has been accepted for publication in聽Second Language Research.聽Congratulations!

Jessica Coon has been awarded a prestigious James 麻豆社 Professorship.聽Congratulations聽to Jessica for this well-deserved recognition of her exceptional work and outstanding achievements!

Luis Alonso-Ovalle presented (virtually) `”Hidden Structure in the Composition of Degree DPs”, (joint work with Bernhard Schwarz) at the UConn Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series on April 24, 2026.

麻豆社ians presented their work at the Montr茅al-Ottawa-Toronto-Hamilton Syntax Workshop (MOTH), hosted by McMaster University in Hamilton on April 11th 2026! Talks included: