<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><div> <div class="ydpbce45eb3MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Thank you in advance for posting this second call for papers for an a<span lang="FR"><span lang="FR">djacent workshop at the Syntax of the World’s
Languages 8 conference, Paris 3-5 September 2018:</span></span></span><span lang="FR"><div class="ydpbce45eb3MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><br></span><span lang="FR"></span></div></span><span lang="FR"></span><span lang="FR"></span><span lang="FR"><span lang="FR">Lest we miss them: precautioning clauses aka. lest-clauses,
apprehensive, avertive & in-case clause</span><br></span></div><div class="ydpbce45eb3MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><br></span></div>
<div class="ydpbce45eb3MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Conference URL: https://swl8.sciencesconf.org</span><span lang="FR"> <br></span></div><div class="ydpbce45eb3MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Workshop URL: <span lang="FR">https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/6</span> </span>
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<p class="ydpbce45eb3MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Conveners:</span><span lang="FR"> Marine Vuillermet (DDL-CNRS, Lyon)</span><span lang="FR">, Eva Schultze-Berndt (U Manchester)</span>
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<p class="ydpbce45eb3MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Submission of abstracts: Abstracts are
solicited for 20-minute presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion). Please
follow the instructions for abstract submission found on the conference website
https://swl8.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/1. Remember to include the name
of the workshop in your submission.</span></p>
<p class="ydpbce45eb3MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><b>Deadline: 31 January 2018</b>.</span></p>
<br><p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">The topic of this workshop are precautioning
clauses, i.e. subordinate clauses encoding an undesirable event that is to be
avoided, indicated by specialised markers, as in (1). </span></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">(1) Ese Ejja (Vuillermet to appear)</span></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><i><span lang="FR">E-’bakwa<span>
</span>iñawewa iña<span> </span>po-ani, (...)<span> </span>[e’bio=wasijje<span> </span>e-poki<span> </span>kwajejje].</span></i></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">NPF-child<span>
</span>dog<span> </span><span> </span>grab<span> </span>be-PRS<span> </span>jungle=ALL<span> </span>PREC-go<span> </span>PREC</span></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">‘The child is grabbing the dog [lest it go to
the jungle].’</span></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Precautioning clauses systematically associate
with an explicit preemptive clause, typically with assertive (1) or directive
illocutionary force (2). Lichtenberk (1995) further subdivides the
PRECAUTIONING function into the AVERTIVE (2a) and IN-CASE functions (2b). The
two differ in that there is a direct causal link between the two propositions
only in the former but not in the latter. Many authors describe precautioning
clauses as “negative purpose clauses” even though such a term does not cover
the IN-CASE function.</span></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">(2) a. Take your umbrella lest you get wet /
so that you won’t get wet.</span></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><span> </span>b.
Take your umbrella lest/in case it rains / ??so that it won’t rain.</span></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">An example of a dedicated precautioning
morpheme is the _lest_ (archaic) in English also illustrated in (2). Though
such specialised constructions seem to be rare in the Eurasian and African
areas (Vuillermet 2015; Schmidtke-Bode 2009: 130), they are not rare
cross-linguistically: Schmidtke-Bode (2009) identifies them in 19 out of 80
languages, and a recent survey of 56 South American languages reports 18
languages with precautioning clauses (Vuillermet 2017). </span></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Languages with no dedicated morphology still
have numerous precautioning strategies, marked by connectives such as ‘if
not+might’, ‘otherwise’, and ‘before’ as in _Put the milk into the fridge
before it goes off_. These may or may not be restricted to undesirable
consequences. The notion of undesirability may also arise, somewhat
surprisingly, from morphemes that originally only encode possibility (Pakendorf
& Schalley 2007) or temporal sequence (Angelo & Schultze-Berndt 2016). </span></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">The precautioning morphemes identified in
Schmidtke-Bode’s (2009: 130ff.) typological study on purpose clauses do not
belong to a particular syntactic category – they may be e.g. conjunctions,
adverbials, adpositions, or TAM markers. Precautioning clauses tend to have
their own specific argument structure configurations: explicit subjects are
significantly more frequent in such clauses than in positive purpose clauses.
This follows from the precautioning clauses’ overwhelming preference for
different subjects (36.9% vs. 5.8% in positive purpose clauses). It probably
reflects the fact that undesirable consequences mostly originate in a third
party, while welcome ones are often self-triggered.</span></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">In addition to the semantic subtypes, internal
syntactic structure, and morphological marking of precautioning clauses, a
major issue in the existing literature has been the potential difficulty of
distinguishing between their dependent or independent syntactic status (e.g.
Austin 1981: 229; François 2003: 304-310), due to the close pragmatic link to a
pre-emptive clause. </span></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">The workshop will bring together scholars
primarily working on lesser-known languages to study the crosslinguistic
variation of precautioning clauses with a focus on the top-ics mentioned above.
Thanks to descriptions of the forms, syntactic strategies and semantic profiles
of such clauses in individual languages, families or areas, the workshop will
pave the way for a typology of such constructions. </span></p>
<p class="ydp78f4459MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">A longer version of the workshop description
and guidelines for abstract submission are available on the conference website,
https://swl8.sciencesconf.org.</span></p>
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