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.
Satoru Ozaki (UMass): Conditional wh-questions with VP Ellipsis, or: What kind of DP does the elided VP contain if the antecedent VP does?
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...
Penelope Daniel (UConn): A unified approach to differential argument marking
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...
Eva Neu (UMass): Variable linking in argument structure
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....