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.
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...
In the past few decades, numerous studies have explored the architecture of functional projections dominating the vP domain. A common view is that languages may share a universal inventory of featu...