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.
Based on a survey of 78 languages, Baker & Vinokurova (2009) conclude that agent/subject nominalizations (e.g., a seller of books) lack several verbal properties. These properties include negat...
Applicatives are a set of morphological and syntactic elements (often affixes) which typically have amongst their functions the licensing of a new syntactic object (Polinsky 2013). These constructi...
In this talk, I analyze double negation (DN) readings in strict negative concord (NC) languages. Current analyses of strict NC languages often consider negative markers in strict NC languages as no...
In this talk I present a number of puzzling asymmetries in the distribution of A-movement (particularly across clauses) and revisit some old ones, arguing that many of the licensing conditions on A...