Michelle Yuan

Assistant Professor, UCLA Linguistics

Handouts/slides

This page is mainly just for ongoing and past projects that have not been written up as papers.

  • Hedding, Andrew A. and Michelle Yuan. 2024. Distinct pathways to possessor Ā-extraction in Mesoamerican languages. NELS 55, Yale University. [handout]
    • Yuan, Michelle. 2024. A restriction on vocalic clitic coalescence in San Juan Piñas Mixtec. UCLA American Indian Seminar. [handout]
    • Yuan, Michelle. 2022. Covert A-movement at the syntax-morphology interface: Insights from Inuktitut incorporation. Abralin ao Vivo — Linguists Online (invited talk). [video]
      Basically this paper, but a slightly different framing is presented in this talk.
    • Yuan, Michelle. 2022. Deriving VSO in San Juan Piñas Mixtec. UMass Amherst Syntax Workshop/MIT Syntax Square. [handout (MIT version)]
    • Yuan, Michelle and Ksenia Ershova. 2020. Dependent case in syntactically ergative languages: Evidence from Inuit and West Circassian. LSA 2020, New Orleans, LA. [handout]
    • Yuan, Michelle. 2016. Subordinate clause types and the left periphery in Kikuyu. LSA 2016, Washington, DC. [handout]
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