Elise McClay graduated from McGill University in 2012, with a BA (Honours) in Linguistics. Her academic interests include sociolinguistics (especially the sociolinguistics of multilingualism), morphosyntax (especially the mechanisms for expressing possession), and prosody (how people use intonation and emphasis to communicate specific ideas in discourse). She’ll be starting her Master’s degree in Linguistics at the University of British Columbia in fall 2014!