Norman Yeo
Senior Lecturer

Profile

Biography

I am a syntactician with a serious interest in semantics. My primary interest lies in formal approaches to grammatical variation and the syntax–semantics interface.

Career

University of York

• Senior Lecturer (2023–)
• Lecturer (2017–2023)
• Associate Lecturer (2014–2017)
• Teaching Fellow (2012–14)
• PhD Linguistics (2006–10)
• MA Linguistics (2004–05)

National University of Singapore

• BA English Language (2001–04)

Departmental roles

• Programme Leader (Linguistics)
• PGT/PGR Admissions Tutor

External Roles

• Treasurer for the Linguistics Association of Great Britain

Research

Overview

Areas that I have worked on include:

• Syntax, semantics, and typology of interrogatives
• Syntax and semantics of quantification 
• Syntax and semantics of language contact (especially Singapore English and related varieties)
• Chinese syntax (A-not-A, ba-constructions, interrogatives, serial verbs)
• Agreement systems

Research group(s)

• Syntax and semantics research group

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Syntax (L89M)
• Syntactic Theory (L26M)
• Directed Readings in Syntax (L106M)
• Morphology and Syntax (L11C)
• Aspects of a Theory of Syntax (L16I)