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 the grammatical tradition of Tibetan, the ergative case (བྱེད་སྒྲ་, byed sgra) has been described as obligatorily present only when the subject receives pragmatic emphasis and optional in discou...
In a multitude of constructions across a variety of languages, it is possible to optionally realize verbal agreement with postverbal subjects for which agreement is obligatory when the subject appe...
Khoekhoe (Nama-Damara) is a Khoe-Kwadi language primarily spoken in Namibia and parts of South Africa. It has been reported that the word order in Khoekhoe can be described as subject clitic second...
Based on a survey of 78 languages, Baker & Vinokurova (2009) conclude that agent/subject nominalizations (e.g., a seller of books) lack several verbal properties. These properties include negat...