Reading Groups

Led by Professor Jonathan Bobaljik

Discussion will center around second position clitics, and anyone with an interest in historical or generative linguistics is more than welcome to attend! For questions or to obtain readings in advance, email Zach Rothstein-Dowden ( rothsteindowden@g...

ABSTRACT: As is well-known, many languages with ergative systems of case or agreement nonetheless exhibit splits in their alignment, with ergativity failing to occur in some contexts. Viewpoint aspect is a common determinant of such splits, with...

Morpheme-based incremental processing in head-final child language Humans rapidly interpret utterances as soon as the words become available rather than postponing interpretation until the end of a sentence (Altmann & Steedman, 1988; Tanenhaus, Spivey...

Discussion led by Maria Polinsky , Greg Scontras , Zuzanna Fuchs

The two readings are attached. In the Mendez et al. paper, Masha, Greg and Zuzanna suggest focusing on pp. 1-8.

Please contact Dorothy Ahn for the reading.