2026 Fall SynRG Schedule
Sep 11: Introductions! Sep 18: Aidan Sharma (Rutgers University) Sep 25: Zhixian Huang (University of Southern California) Oct 2: Yitong Luo (Yale University) – NELS 57 practice talk Oct 9: Hwanhe...
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.
Squid Tamar-Mattis (Yale): PCC repair by Farthest Disjunct Agreement
Manowang Gump (UCL): The (non-)survival of discourse particles in ellipsis
This talk provides a uniform analysis to clausal ellipsis with the discourse particles e.g., fragments in Thai and sluicing in Colloquial Singaporean English (Singlish), as in (1-2) respectively. ...
Johanna Benz (Princeton): Prefixation in German nominalizations
In the study of derivational morphology, multiply derived words are particularly informative regarding the connection between their morphosyntactic structure and their interpretation. For example, ...