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.
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...
In this talk, I investigate s(emantic)-selection of interrogatives with a particular focus on nominalized clauses. Comparing empirical patterns from Korean, Japanese and Turkish, I provide followin...
Across world’s languages, predicative possessives (X has Y; He has a dog.) are expressed by different syntactic strategies (Heine 1997, Stassen 2009, Myler 2014, 2014, a.o.). In Budai Rukai (Austro...
Our talk is concerned with Minimal Sufficiency (MS) as in (1) and (2). (Grosz 2011 coined the term, but the data had been around for decades.) (1) Tylenole alone will help here already. (2) If the...