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 has a double aim: to demonstrate that micro-variation between languages is a conspiracy of the derivation; and to draw theoretical implications on the status of Phase Unlocking (Rackowski...
In this talk I propose that the availability of (subject to subject) hyperraising (HR) in a language is tied to the position their subjects occupy. More specifically, HR subjects are claimed to be ...
Prior literature claims that lexical case overrides structural case when it appears in ECM and raising constructions with verbs of saying and believing. This is, however, not (always) the case. Bot...