McLing

McGill linguists presented at this year’s meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, held this past weekend in hybrid format in Washington DC. The full program is available at: https://www.linguisticsociety.org/node/36129/schedule.

Talks:

• Kathryn Franich (University of Delaware) & Hermann Keupdjio (McGill University): Tonal and Rhythmic Factors in the Alignment of Speech and Co-Speech Gesture in Medʉmba
• Alexander Göbel (McGill University) and Thuy Bui: Accommodating presuppositions cross-linguistically: an experimental investigation on English and Vietnamese
• William Johnston (McGill University): Verb serialization as event-building: Evidence from Hmong

Posters:

• Daniel Goodhue (University of Maryland; McGill PhD ’18) and Junko Shimoyama (McGill University):  Clausal complementation under to in Japanese
• Jing Ji (McGill University): A Hybrid Analysis of Chinese Right Dislocation