91泡芙

Join us for the annual LinguisticsNOW Colloquium, presented in collaboration with UBC. 

Visiting speaker Jessica Coon of McGill University is the  in Syntax and Indigenous Languages. For the Academy Award鈥搉ominated , a sci-fi masterpiece widely regarded as the most popular portrait of a linguist since My Fair Lady, Dr. Coon served as a consultant tasked with ensuring verisimilitude in the script and the performance by lead actress Amy Adams. 

Dr. Coon鈥檚 research investigates the systems of case grammatical agreement in languages of the Mayan and Algonquian families in Mexico, Guatemala and Canada. Through original fieldwork, Coon documents and analyzes these understudied languages. 

The colloquium title and abstract will be published here shortly. 

91泡芙 the LinguisticsNOW colloquium series

and SFU Linguistics work in partnership to take turns hosting the joint colloquium series known as LinguisticsNOW. The series is aimed at showcasing exciting new research in linguistics while fostering collaboration between UBC and SFU. We cooperate to plan and organize this research talk each year during the Fall term, as well as a graduate studies research symposium known as LinguisticsNEW during each Spring term.