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.
The idea of restricted A’-probing for the closest DP was originally proposed for `absolutive-only’ extraction cases in Ergative-Absolutive languages (syntactic ergativity) by Aldridge(2004, 2008, 2...
This talk leverages phonotactic restrictions to reveal a prosodic reflex to A’-movement in Mandar (Austronesian, Central Indonesia): overruling phonological constraints on balance and rhythm, the p...
Some of us hope that one day we’ll be able to reduce all instances of Movement to Agree. About Agree, we know that “omnivorous” patterns exist, where a probe will skip a more local goal to target o...