Three graduate students from Rutgers Linguistics represented the department with poster presentations at the Syntax near NYU (SYNNYU) Workshop, held on Nov. 17.
![Chaoyi Chen at SYNNYU.](https://sites.rutgers.edu/lgsa/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2024/05/20231117_145955-e1715629534893.jpg)
Sixth year Chaoyi Chen presented his work, “Mandarin free relative as a null-operator-based free relative”.
![Jiaxing Yu at SYNNYU](https://sites.rutgers.edu/lgsa/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2023/11/20231117_150014-e1715629582906.jpg)
Fourth year Jiaxing Yu presented her work, “Subject/Object asymmetries in two types of Mandarin Strippings”.
![Gérard Avelino at SYNNYU](https://sites.rutgers.edu/lgsa/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2023/11/20231117_150202-e1715629614955.jpg)
Fourth year Gérard Avelino presented his work, “Something’s surviving sluicing, but I don’t know what (yet)”.