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.
Yiannis Katochoritis (MIT): It’s just a Phase, it’ll pass: Measuring Unlocking in Malagasy vs. Dinka
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...
Tarcisio Dias (UConn): Hyperraising higher subjects
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 ...