News & Events
News – faculty
Dr. Marisa Brook (she/her) is our newest faculty member, cross-appointed to Linguistics from the Department of English Language and Literature. Marisa earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Toronto in 2016, with a focus on variationist sociolinguistics. Her research, most of which has been about dialects of English, focuses on mechanisms of language change, morphosyntax, dialectology, language play, and the relationship between language and identity. Recent articles of hers have appeared in such journals as Language, English World-Wide, and Language and Linguistics Compass. Before joining Saint Mary's University, she taught at Michigan State University (2016-17), the University of Toronto (2018-23), and the University of Essex (2023-24). In her spare time she might be found reading and writing, playing music, creating digital art, fidgeting with yarn and/or fabric, playing old video games, and/or drinking all sorts of tea.
Dr. Elissa Asp has been granted the status of Professor Emerita, effective September 1, 2024. Moreover, Elissa's outstanding contribution to the Linguistics Program, the English Department, and the University was recognized with the Presidentʼs Award for Exemplary Service.
Dr. Daniel Hall gave a plenary talk at the 33rd annual meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (Dalhousie University, May 16-19, 2024). The title of the talk: Voicing assimilation and featural contrasts.
Dr. Egor Tsedryk was awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant (611-2023-0355) for a joint project with Dr. Jasmina Milićević (Dalhousie University). The title of the project is Slavic languages across grammars and models: Slavic heritage languages, trends and synergies in Slavic linguistics, and the artificial intelligence challenge.
News – students
2024
Matthew Currie (BA 2024) was accepted to the MSc program in Speech-Language Pathology at Dalhousie University.
Jonathan Keigan (BA 2022) was accepted to Master of Data Science in Computational Linguistics at the University of British Columbia.
Nina Evans (BA 2021) was accepted to the MASc program in Speech-Language Pathology at McGill University.
Eugenia Kirsanova (BA 2019) received an MA degree from the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University.
2023Merren Russell (BA 2023) was accepted to the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.
Chau (Clara) Tran (BA 2023) was accepted to the MA Linguistics program at McGill University.
Minxuan He (BA 2022) received an MA degree in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh.
2022
Angela Dong (BA 2019) received an MA degree in Applied Linguistics from Western University.
Conferences
2024
The 33rd meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics (FASL 33) was organized by Dr. Egor Tsedryk in collaboration with Dr. Jasmina Milićević (Dalhousie University). The meeting was held at Dalhousie University in May 16-19, 2024.
2022
The 44th meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association (APLA 44) was hosted by the Linguistics Program in November 4-5, 2022. The meeting featured a keynote presentation on Maritime Sign Language by Dr. Beverly Buchanan (currently affiliated with the Nova Scotia Community College).
Talks
Understanding multimodal discourses in English language teaching textbooks: Implications for students and practitioners -- Dr. Christopher A. Smith (March 5, 2020)
EEG as a tool for understanding language comprehension -- Dr. Aaron Newman (February 26, 2020)
Agreeing with singular they -- Dr. Daniel Hall (February 8, 2018)