Syntax

Raffaella Zanuttini and Co-Authors Publish Paper

Raffaella Zanuttini and her co-authors Miok Pak and Paul Portner published a squib in Linguistic Inquiry, “Restrictions on Indexicals in Directive Clauses.”  The squib makes a novel observation, pointing to the existence of  type of clause that has directive force and yet is not a canonical imperative, in which some indexicals are ruled out and others are restricted.  It also briefly discusses  how this observation affects our understanding of indexicality and clausal structure.

PhD Alum Matt Tyler publishes paper in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

Yale Linguistics alumnus, Matt Tyler, has recently published an article titled “Serial verb constructions and the syntax-prosody interface” in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. Matt’s paper focuses on serial verb constructions in Degema arguing for a partly-unified postsyntactic module, wherein mrophology and prosody are built in parallel. 

The article can be viewed at the link below.

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