Dan Brodkin (UPenn): A-Locality at the Edge
The goal of this talk is to push forward our understand of the A-A’ divide by studying an exceptional type of movement to the edge of the phase. In Mandar, an Austronesian language of Indonesia, I ...
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.
Xuehuai He (Yale): Finnish impersonal verbs might not be impersonal
In this talk, I argue that the Finnish -ta/-tä/-ti verbal morphology, traditionally called the “impersonal passive”, is neither inherently passive nor impersonal, but instead realizes an active Voi...
Brittany Zykoski (UPenn): Hither Head Movement: What could we might learn from double modals?
Long-distance head movement has been most clearly observed in verb-fronting phenomena (e.g. Harizanov 2019). Harizanov & Gribanova (2019) posit that T-to-C movement in interrogatives should als...
Daniar Kasenov (NYU): A clausal embedding argument for small syntax of Russian nominalizations
This talk presents a novel (to my knowledge) observation that certain Russian clause-embedding verbs either fully cannot form deverbal nominalizations or cannot retain their clause-embedding capaci...