Spring Semester 2026
For Spring 2026, Syntax-Lab happens on Mondays during 12:30-1:50pm in 1108B.
February 2: Scheduling and discussion
February 9:
February 16:
February 23:
March 2:
March 9:
March 16: No meeting - Spring break
March 23:
March 30:
April 6: Dan Brodkin (UPenn)
April 13:
April 20:
April 27:
May 4:
Contact Jackson Confer (jconfer at umd dot edu) or Matthew Shi (mgshi at umd dot edu) (current organizers) for Zoom link or relevant information.
Previous meetings
Fall Semester 2025
September 5: Scheduling and discussion
September 12: Allison - Possessor datives
September 26: Jeff - Possessor raising and the DOC in Kannada
October 10: Mal + Tonia - PP complexes and shell structure
October 24: Katherine - Reconstruction effects in ATB
October 31: Sathvik - Ambiguity processing
November 7: Matthew - Differential object movement in Mandarin
November 14: Mal - Comparing comparatives in Indic
December 5: Tessa + Matthew - Depth charge sentences
Spring Semester 2025
February 25: Norbert on cyclicity, phases, and islands
Fall Semester 2024
September 6: Discussion: Carstens's (2003) "Rethinking Complementizer Agreement: Agree with a Case-Checked Goal"
September 13: Mal and Sebastián on doing English verbal inflection with Spanning
September 20: Sadie Lewis: Negation in Kaqchikel
September 27: Discussion: Embick's "Comparative syntax, morphology, and “externalization” (What happens at PF?)"
October 4: Tonia Bleam: Simultaneous vs. sequential morphology in Sign Languages
October 11: Maša Bešlin: What actually delimits the domain for allomorphy?
October 25: Mal on Superlatives
November 1: Sadie and Aron: Q in the A-domain
November 8: Jackson Confer: The syntax of 'but'
November 15: Sadie and Utku: Superiority Effects with Wh-Adjuncts in Turkish
November 22: Fedya Golosov: 888 defence!
December 6: Elizabeth Swanson on ellipsis: Barros et al. "There is no island repair"
December 13: Allison Dods: Possessor Datives and Double-Object Datives
Spring Semester 2024
January 30th: Utku Turk on Turkish Suspended Affixation
February 20th: Cassandra Caragine: What is Omnivorous Agreement?
February 27th: Polina Pleshak on nominal structure in Moksha
March 12th: Mal Shah: a Spanning approach to Kashmiri V2
April 2nd: Luisa Seguin: overt-covert wh-movement in Romance
April 9th: Luisa Seguin (with Gary Thoms): unifying parasitic gaps and ATB-extraction
April 23rd: (guest lecture) John Beavers on verbal roots and applicatives in Kinyarwanda
April 30th: Luisa Seguin on Italian ecceto-exceptives
Fall Semester 2023
November 7th: (guest lecture) Rachel Dudley
November 14th: Anna Grabovac on Concord
November 28th: Mal Shah on ellipsis and wh-scope marking in Hindi-Urdu
December 5th: (guest lecture) Jack Pruett on case assignment in Irish
Spring Semester 2023
February 1st: Organizational meeting
February 15th: What is Distributed Morphology?
February 22nd: (Guest lecture) Vera Gribanova on polarity items under ellipsis
March 1st: (Guest lecture) Terje Lohndal on exoskeletal approaches to argument structure
March 15th: Cassandra Caragine and Lydia Quevedo: prosodic smothering and the acquisition of ergative morphology in Mayan
March 29th: Masha Polinsky on anti-passives
April 5th: Alex Krauska on Construction Grammar and its friends
April 12th: Comparing the Exo-Skeletal Model and Distributed Morphology
April 9th: (Guest lecture) Caitlin Coons: the Morphosyntax of Signed Languages
April 26th: (Guest lecture) Soo-Hwan Lee: Addressees as Applied Arguments
May 3rd: (Guest lecture) William Matchin on non-lexicalist approaches in aphasia