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.

Jim Wood and Catarina Soares present their work on Prepositional Infinitives in European Portuguese

Jim Wood and Catarina Soares their paper “Prepositional Infinitives in European Portuguese as Voice Alternations” in Palermo, Italy, on May 26th.

Raffaella Zanuttini publishes article in Linguistic Inquiry

Raffaella Zanuttini publishes new work highlighting previously unnoticed restrictions on indexical elements.

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.

Milena Šereikaitė Publishes in Linguistic Inquiry

On 25 October 2021, Milena Šereikaitė published a paper in Linguistic Inquiry entitled, “Active Existential in Lithuanian: Remarks on Burzio’s Generalization”.

Michael Stern publishes in Brain Sciences

Michael Stern published a paper with co-authors LeeAnn Stover (CUNY Graduate Center), Ernesto Guerra (University of Chile), and Gita Martohardjono (CUNY Graduate Center) entitled “Syntactic and Semantic Influences on the Time Course of Relative Clause Processing: The Role of Language Dominance”.

Yale linguists publish in PLC proceedings

Five papers were published by Yale linguists in the Proceedings of the 44th Annual Penn Linguistics Conference:

Samuel Andersson: Abkhaz Stress as a Segmental Property

Joseph Class: Causee Case in Gipuzkoan Basque

Catarina Soares and Jim Wood: Locative Causatives in European Portuguese as Voice Alternations

Award: Roger Shuy Best Paper in American Speech for 2020 for Article Co-Authored by Jim Wood, Raffaella Zanuttini, Larry Horn, and Jason Zentz

The “Roger Shuy Best Paper of 2020” prize for the journal American Speech was awarded to an article (“Dative Country: Markedness and Geographical Variation in Southern Dative Constructions”) co-authored by four members of the Yale Linguistics Department: Jim Wood, Raffaella Zanuttini, Larry Horn and Jason Zentz.

Veneeta Dayal gives a talk at a meeting of the Indefiniteness Across Languages of the Mercosul Group

Veneeta Dayal gave a talk on April 26th at a meeting of the Indefiniteness Across Languages of the Mercosul Group (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay).

Yale Linguists Present at WCCFL

Three presentations were given by Yale linguists at the 39th meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL).

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