LINGUIST List 33.1709
Thu May 12 2022
Confs: Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Semantics, Syntax/Germany
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Date: 12-May-2022
From: Lukasz Jedrzejowski <l.jedrzejowski
uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Adverbial clauses between subordination and coordination
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Date: 20-May-2022 - 21-May-2022
Location: Cologne, Germany
Contact: Lukasz Jedrzejowski
Contact Email:
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http://www.lukasz-jedrzejowski.eu/adverbial-clauses-2/
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Syntax
Meeting Description:
The international conference “Adverbial clauses between subordination and coordination” is the first meeting of the scientific network “Adverbial clauses and subordinate dependency relationships” founded by German Science Foundation granted to Łukasz Jędrzejowski (grant number 455700544). The conference will be hosted by the Institute for German Language and Literature I – Linguistics at the University of Cologne, on May 20–21, 2022.
Recent versions of minimalist theorizing assume Set-Merge and Pair-Merge as two basic structure-building operations (Chomsky 2004, Bode 2020, Safir 2020). Interestingly, both operations can apply to adverbial clauses. The adverbial clause α can be Pair Merged to the XP-level to yield <α, XP>, α adjoined to XP (Larson 1990, Blümel & Pitsch 2019), or it can be c-selected and participate in a Set-Merge operation (cf. e.g. Pesetsky’s 1991 ‘If-Copying Rule’ for conditional clauses). Given the various functions of adverbial clauses and their variation, the major aim of this conference is to examine adverbial clauses synchronically and diachronically, and contribute to a better understanding of structure-building operations in general.
Synchronically, adverbial clauses have been divided into three classes: central/embedded, peripheral and non-integrated subordinate clauses, resulting in three distinct attachment heights, cf. Frey (to appear) and Schönenberger & Haegeman (to appear), differing from each other in what kinds of root phenomena they can host, and giving rise to distinct interpretative effects. Remarkably, non-integrated adverbial clauses including sentential speech act modifiers (e.g. ‘To be honest with you, I’ve never really liked them’) have been shown to exhibit striking properties typical of coordinate structures. The overlap of formal properties raises the issue of how adverbial clauses can be derived in a unified way (cf. Larson 2016).
Diachronically, new types of adverbial clauses have been mainly traced back to other subordinate environments, in particular to correlative/relative structures, cf. Eberhardt & Axel-Tober (to appear). Their origin usually involves grammaticalization, reanalysis, rebracketing and/or relabeling (van Gelderen 2021, Weiß 2021), and reorganizes the composition of formal features (van Gelderen 2008). However, less is known about the extent to which coordinative structures can give rise to adverbial clauses, and how these processes differ from the well-known cases restricted to subordinate contexts.
At this conference we would like to address syntactic as well as semantic issues relating to adverbial clauses, including cross-linguistic patterns and case studies from less known languages.
Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following questions:
– How can adverbial modification of the matrix clause be modeled in such a way as to capture the basic properties of all adverbial clauses?
– Do all types of adverbial clauses involve a single structure-building operation (e.g. Pair-Merge)? How does adjunction work if an adverbial clause modifies a speech act? To what extent should c selection be reconsidered if an adverbial clause satisfies the theta-grid of a clause-embedding predicate?
– How do adverbial clauses emerge? Do they originate in subordinate environments and involve (only) a restructuring of the CP domain or can they also emerge out of coordinative structures presupposing a radical reorganization of the entire clause structure?
– What kind of syntactic/semantic processes does the diachrony of adverbial clauses evoke? How do formal features change and how do these changes affect the subordination system in general?
Invited speakers (all confirmed):
Regine Eckardt (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University, Belgium)
Richard Larson (Stony Brook University, USA)
Ken Safir (Rutgers University, USA)
Program:
May 20 (Friday)
09:00–09:10: Opening remarks and introduction
Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne)
09:10–10:10: The typology of adverbial clauses and the role of discourse syntax
Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University)
10:10–10:40: On some types of adverbial clauses appearing outside of their hosts
Werner Frey (Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin)
10:40–11:10: A bi-dimensional account for adverbial clauses between discourse and grammar: Constructional-illocutionary taxonomy and discourse-communicative information structure
Hasmik Jivanyan (University of Geneva)
11:30–12:00: Three modes of introducing adverbial clauses – Evidence from German
Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen)
12:30–13:00: Free adjunction and the distribution of Japanese -to adverbial clauses
Takashi Munakata (Yokoahama National University)
14:30–15:00: Central adverbial clauses are integrated in the structure right above vP
Wellington Souza de Paula (State University of Campinas)
15:00–15:30: Merge vs. Move in central and peripheral adverbial clauses in Chinese. Evidence from intervention effect
Marco Casentini (University of Rome) / Giorgio Carella (University of Roma Tre) & Mara Frascarelli (University of Roma Tre)
15:30–16:00: Subject vs object binding as evidence for degrees of clausal subordination
Sophie von Wietersheim (Unversity of Göttingen) & Sam Featherston (University of Tübingen)
16:20–16:50: On the interpretability of epistemic modal operators in event-related adverbial clauses
Jakob Maché (University of Lisbon)
16:50–17:20: P or not P – not really a question: A fresh view on the complement/adjunct distinction
Hagen Pitsch (University of Göttingen)
17:20–18:20: All Merge is Pair-merge: Against the operational definition of ‘Adjunct’
Ken Safir (Rutgers University)
May 21 (Saturday)
09:00–10:00: Parataxis to Hypotaxis – (How) does it ever happen?
Regine Eckardt (University of Konstanz)
10:00–10:30: Times and events in temporal clauses
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
10:50–11:20: On exceptive ‘nema'-clauses in Icelandic
Oddur Snorrason (University of Cambridge / Ásgrímur Angantýsson (University of Iceland) & Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne)
11:20–11:50: On coordinate converbs
Ekaterina Georgieva (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics)
13:30–14:00: Left-right asymmetries in conditional clause attachment and multiple complementizers
Nicola Munaro (University of Venice)
14:00–14:30: Extraction from clausal adjuncts in Czech: A rating study
Radek Šimík / Petr Biskup / Kateřina Bartasová / Markéta Dančová / Eliška Dostálková / Kateřina Hrdinková / Gabriela Kosková / Jaromír Kozák / Klára Lupoměská / Albert Maršík / Edita Schejbalová & Illia Yekimov (Charles University)
14:30–15:00: A raising analysis of pseudo-relatives in German
Andreas Pankau (Free University of Berlin)
15:20–15:50: Adverbial clauses: Not that much of an issue?
Jet Hoek (Radboud University Nijmegen)
15:50–16:20: Depictive manner complements
Carla Umbach (University of Cologne)
16:20–16:50: Resisting the adverbial temptation: On ‘Hingeh-und'-structures in German
Sebastian Bücking (University of Siegen)
17:10–18:10: What adverbials and adverbial clauses may teach us about quantification
Richard K. Larson (Stony Brook University)
18:10–18:20: Concluding remarks and future plans
Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne)
Registration:
Please register online until May 18, 2022, by writing an email with the subject line “Registration” to our conference email:
adverbial-clauses
uni-koeln.de
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