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.
Jacopo Garzonio (Puada); Cecilia Poletto (Goethe & Puada): Living on the edge: On bare and non-bare negative concord items across Italo-Romance
This work describes and discusses some properties of the distribution of Negative Concord Items (NCIs) in the Italo-Romance domain, taking into account both varieties of Italian and varieties of ot...
Kaustubh Ghoshal (NYU): Movement and Non-Movement in Hindi-Urdu Correlatives
Correlatives are a relativization strategy involving a two-clause structure. The correlative clause specifies a referent which is then referred to by a demonstrative in the main clause. [[jo ...
Phoevos Panagiotidis (Cyprus): On the origin of spines: Implications for an (emerging) Theory of Features
The concept of Spine (aka Extended Projection), a reworking of Chomsky’s (1986) Complete Functional Complex, appears to be analytically useful but remains theoretically elusive. There have been se...