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.
Under standard Phase Theory, the locality constraint deriving successive cyclicity is the PIC (Chomsk 2001), which requires movement to proceed via the edge of phases. For example, a CP phase can o...
Within modern models of syntax, syntactic derivations and the resulting structures are determined by lexical items and the features they bear (Chomsky 2001; Borer 2005; Boeckx 2014). This talk disc...
There are two main perspectives on the syntactic status of implicit arguments in verbal passives. One view holds that the implicit argument in a passive is syntactically projected (Collins 2005, 20...