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.
This talk substantiates and provides an account of the following novel generalization: (1) When just one constituent can undergo passive A-movement in English, it is invariably the leftmost access...
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...
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 ...