Current Members
Current McGill affiliates working with Kanien’kéha
Professor of Linguistics
linguistics tools for second language learners; morphology; syntax; argument structure; pronominal prefixes
Professor of Linguistics
phonology; prosodic structure; second language acquisition; first language acquisition
Neyla Hinedi
BA in Linguistics
morphology; phonology; second-language acquisition
Hannah Katinsky
PhD in Linguistics
syntax; questions, agreement
PhD in Linguistics
LingView; ELAN; partitives
Von Malacket Hamel
BA in Linguistics
morphology; pre-pronominal prefixes; second language acquisition
Akwiratékha’ Martin
National Research Council of Canada; Collaborator, language expert
morphology, loanword phonology, discourse particles
Mary Onwá:ri Tekahawáhkwen McDonald
PhD in Indigenous Language Revitalization
teaching Kanien’kéha; kinship terms; imperatives
Wishe Mitchell Mittelstaedt
PhD in Indigenous Language Revitalization
second language acquisition, expressives, imperatives
Willie Myers
PhD in Linguistics
semantics; repetitives; exclamatives; comparatives; imperatives
Samantha Prins
Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics
Language revitalization; morphology, syntax, nominals
Alumni Members
Former McGill affiliates working with Kanien’kéha
Arihwí:saks Benedict
MA 2026 in Indigenous Language Revitalization
reversives; second-language immersion curriculum
Max Blackburn
BA 2025 in Linguistics and Computer Science
pre-pronominal prefixes; morphology; allomorphy; computational tools
BA 2024; RA 2024–2025
noun incorporation; binding conditions; syntax; morphology
Kanontienénhtha’ Brass
MA 2025 in Indigenous Language Revitalization
discourse particles; transcription as a tool for second-language learning
Sophia Flaim
BA 2025 in Linguistics
information structure; word order; /syntax
PhD in Linguistics
semantics; TAM; former and remote past; intentive aspect; purposives
Bokai Liu
Linguistics student
syntax; relative clauses; word order
Simon LiVolsi
PhD 2026 in Linguistics
phonology; syllables; stress; epenthesis; Praat; tone
Katya Morgunova
PhD 2026 in Linguistics
semantics; complement clauses; negation; intentive aspect; purposives
Yan Zhiyu
BA in Linguistics
website work; computational tools; data management