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.
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...
In this talk, I introduce and analyze dialectal data from Grevena, a Northern Greek dialect, and investigate its cliticization patterns comparatively to those of other varieties and Romance languag...
It has been claimed that Indonesian, like Italian, Irish and Tagalog, does not permit more than one wh-phrase in a question (Fortin 2009, Kurniawan 2013 a.o.). In this talk, I argue that the availa...
This talk investigates the unusual and rarely discussed phenomenon in English, where a VP-adverb surfaces in a higher clausal position in VP-ellipsis contexts than is otherwise possible in non-elli...