S-Side Story is a group that discusses the exciting developments in syntactic research and its interfaces. Since June 2021, S-Side Story has taken over the former Syntax+. Given the increasing amount of interest and work in semantics and the interface with morphology, but also psycholinguistics, the plus sign was too underspecified to capture everything. The new name aims to represent the multifaceted research interests of the group while still maintining syntax at its core.
We hold regular meetings for students and faculty members to present their research projects and get feedback. Occassionally, we have special talks given by invited speakers.
All topics which are of relevance to syntax, semantics, and their interfaces are welcome. If you want to schedule a presentation at S-Side Story or want to be added to the mailing list, please contact Nelli Marutyan (nmarutya@usc.edu).
Check out the schedule for Spring 2025 Presentations:
January 22nd, Wednesday
Presenter: Andrew Murphy
Topic: A Workshop on LaTeX
January 29th, Wednesday
Presenter: Fulang Chen
Topic: Causation and Affectedness in the Mandarin ba-Construction
February 5th, Wednesday
Presenter: Andrew Murphy
Topic: The Morphotactics of the Limbu Verb
February 12th, Wednesday
Presenter: Nelli Marutyan
Topic: The Three Causatives in Armenian
February 19th, Wednesday
Presenter: Zhendong Liu
Topic: The Semantic Composition of Event counting Expressions in Mandarin Chinese
February 26th, Wednesday
Presenter: Zhixian Huang
Topic: Revisiting Non-Canonical Objects in Mandarin Chinese
March 5th, Wednesday
Presenter: Su Yingyu
Topic: TBA
March 12th, Wednesday
Presenter: Peter O’Neill
Topic: TBA
March 26th, Wednesday (Open House)
Presenter: Andrew Murphy
Topic: The Nominal Domain in Bidhaawyeet
March 26th, Wednesday (Open House)
Presenter: Mete Oguz
Topic: Indexical Shift and its Interactions with Perspective Sensitive Items (PSIs): Indexical PSIs in Turkish
April 2nd, Wednesday
Presenter: Mete Oguz and Travis Major
Topic: Indexical Shift and its Interactions with Perspective Sensitive Items (PSIs): Indexical PSIs in Turkish
April 9th, Wednesday
Presenter: Andrew Simpson and Zhixian Huang
Topic: The Complexities of OV/VO Word Order in Wu Chinese
April 16th, Wednesday
Presenter: Katie Kennedy
Topic: TBA
April 23rd, Wednesday
Presenter: Nelli Marutyan
Topic: TBA
April 30th, Wednesday
Presenter: Carolina Fraga
Topic: Determiner Drop in Vernacular English