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.
In this talk, I discuss a construction I call “conditional wh-question with VP Ellipsis”, exemplified by (1,2) below (Δ = ellipsis site): (1) What museum would you visit if SALLY did Δ? (2) If you...
Differential argument marking (DAM) refers to case patterns where a marked case (e.g., accusative or ergative) is assigned only when an argument has a particular semantic property. Typically, the a...
Ever since the unaccusativity hypothesis was proposed, it has been noted that some intransitives allow for both an unergative and an unaccusative use, with systematic differences in interpretation....
Auxiliaries are known to arise either (i) with a certain inflectional category (The Additive pattern), or (ii) in the combination of such categories (The Overflow pattern; Bjorkman 2011). This talk...