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.
A subset of Korean psych adjectives allows the embedded object to alternate between nominative and accusative case. This presentation argues that this case alternation reflects a difference in Voic...
The distributional restrictions on embedded root constructions form empirical and conceptual challenges to the subordination literature. This talk focuses on the non-standard embeddability profile ...
Mandarin argument linking exhibits surface flexibility: for some transitive verbs, the surface object position can alternate between (A) selected theme/patient arguments (cf.(1)) (B) unselected loc...
Determiner spreading (sometimes called poly-(in)definiteness) is a phenomenon that involves the realization of multiple determiners in noun phrases with modification. For example, in a language wit...