Fall Semester 2025
For Fall 2025, Syntax-Lab will meet on Fridays at 2:00pm in 1108B.
9/5 Scheduling and discussion
9/12 Allison - Possessor datives
9/19 Colloquium + Language Science Day - no meeting
9/26 Jeff - Possessor raising and the DOC in Kannada
10/3 Polina defense - no meeting
10/10 Mal + Tonia - PP complexes and shell structure
10/17 Colloquium - no meeting
10/24 Katherine (?)
10/31 Jackson
11/7 Sathvik
11/14 Mal (?)
11/21 Colloquium - no meeting
11/28 Thanksgiving break - no meeting
12/5 Tessa (?)
12/12 Matthew (?)
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
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