SynRG @ Yale
Welcome to Yale Lingusitics Syntax Reading Group (SynRG @ Yale). We frequently invite speakers to present their work. On days without a guest speaker, we discuss work in progress from reading group members, or we discuss recent articles from the syntactic literature.
The meeting takes place on Fridays, 10:30:00-11:45:00 EST, unless notified otherwise.
Manowang Gump (UCL): The (non-)survival of discourse particles in ellipsis
This talk provides a uniform analysis to clausal ellipsis with the discourse particles e.g., fragments in Thai and sluicing in Colloquial Singaporean English (Singlish), as in (1-2) respectively. ...
Johanna Benz (Princeton): Prefixation in German nominalizations
In the study of derivational morphology, multiply derived words are particularly informative regarding the connection between their morphosyntactic structure and their interpretation. For example, ...
Dan Brodkin (UPenn): A-Locality at the Edge
The goal of this talk is to push forward our understand of the A-A’ divide by studying an exceptional type of movement to the edge of the phase. In Mandar, an Austronesian language of Indonesia, I ...