Syntax Research Group

Faculty

Mark Baltin	Theoretical syntax, semantics, lexical representation
Chris Collins	Theoretical syntax, comparative syntax, English syntax, African languages
Stephanie Harves	Theoretical syntax, Russian syntax, comparative syntax, morphology, language acquisition
Richard Kayne	Theoretical syntax, (micro-)comparative syntax, French/Italian syntax
Alec Marantz	Distributed Morphology, theoretical syntax, argument structure, neurolinguistics
Anna Szabolcsi	Formal semantics, Hungarian syntax, syntax/semantics interface

Students

WooJin Chung	Theoretical syntax,neurolinguistics and mathematical linguistics
Itamar Kastner	Morphosyntax, sign languages, embedding constructions, neurolinguistics
Maria Kouneli	Theoretical syntax, comparative syntax, Greek, Romance languages
Haoze Li	Theoretical syntax, semantics, Chinese
Kuo-Chiao Lin	(Morpho)syntax, (morpho)phonology, Austronesian languages
Shih-Yueh Jeff Lin	Syntax/semantics interface
Yining Nie	Morphosyntax, tense, French
Yohei Oseki	Morphosyntax, neurolinguistics, language acquisition
Mary Robinson	Morphosyntax, theoretical syntax, Slavic languages, acquisition
Dunja Veselinovic	Theoretical syntax, Slavic languages
Adina Williams	Neurolinguistics, syntax-semantics interface, semantics of inflectional morphology
Vera Zu	Theoretical syntax, morphosyntax, syntax/semantics interface, neurolinguistics

Recent Dissertations

Neil Myler	2014	Building and Interpreting Possession Sentences
Inna Livitz	2013	Deriving Silence through Dependent Reference: Focus on Pronouns
Patricia Irwin	2012	Unaccusativity at the Interfaces
Txuss Martin	2012	Deconstructing Catalan ObjectClitics
Laziz Nchare	2012	The Grammar of Shupamem
Laura Rimell	2012	Nominal Roots as Event Predicates in English Denominal Conversion Verbs
Violeta Vazquez-Rojas	2012	The Syntax and Semantics of Tarascan Noun Phrases
Jim Wood	2012	Icelandic Morphosyntax and Argument Structure
Chyan-An Arthur Wang	2010	The Microparametric Syntax of Resultatives in Chinese Languages
Andrea Cattaneo	2009	It is all about clitics: The case of a Northern Italian Dialect like Bellinzonese
Oana Savescu Ciucivara	2009	A Syntactic Analysis of Pronominal Clitic Clusters in Romance: The View from Romanian
Thomas Leu	2008	The Internal Syntax of Determiners
Lisa Levinson	2007	The Roots of Verbs
Franca Ferrari	2005	A syntactic analysis of the nominal systems of Italian and Luganda: how nouns can be formed in the syntax
Bill Haddican	2005	Aspects of Language Variation and Change in Contemporary Basque

Syntax Brown Bag

The NYU Syntax Brown Bag is a series of informal talks on syntax and its interfaces with other subfields. The talks are given by students, faculty, and visiting scholars in the Tri-State Area who come to NYC and share their on-going research with our department.