30.3184, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 30.3184, Calls: Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 04:16:55
From: Lukasz Jedrzejowski [l.jedrzejowski at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Non-Interrogative Subordinate Wh-Clauses

Full Title: Non-Interrogative Subordinate Wh-Clauses 

Date: 07-Feb-2020 - 08-Feb-2020
Location: Cologne, Germany 
Contact Person: Lukasz Jedrzejowski
Meeting Email: adverbial-clauses at uni-koeln.de
Web Site: http://www.lukasz-jedrzejowski.eu/organizing/workshop-on-non-interrogative-subordinate-wh-clauses/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2019 

Meeting Description:

Subordinate clauses introduced by a wh-phrase are embeddable under particular
clause-embedding predicates and are usually analyzed as interrogatives. The
wh-phrases heading such clauses trigger sets of alternatives of the type
determined by the lexical meaning of the wh-words - individuals, places,
times, etc. There are, however, subordinate wh‑clauses in which the
interpretation of the wh-words seems to deviate from their standard lexical
meaning. These wh-clauses will be in the focus of the workshop.

Two cases in question are the use of ''how''-like words instead of declarative
complementizers and non-interrogative ''when''-clauses. The example in (1) is
from Legate (2010) showing that in (colloquial) English ''how'' can be used to
embed clauses that are clearly declarative instead of interrogative. Legate
argues that ''how'' in such clauses must be base-generated in its surface
position. Similarly, there are in German complement clauses headed by ''wie''
'how' that are not interrogative and instead express events in progress, cf.
Umbach et al. (submitted). This type of non-interrogative usage of
''how''-clauses is attested in a number of languages including, e.g., French,
Greek and Hebrew, raising the question of whether manner wh-words are
polysemous across languages, and if not, why manner wh-words may introduce
clauses denoting facts or events.

(1) They told me how the tooth fairy doesn't really exist.

In the example in (2), taken from Hall & Caponigro (2010), the ''when''-clause
occurs in the matrix object position and exhibits a non-interrogative
interpretation which is ambiguous between denoting time intervals and events.
Hall & Caponigro analyze it as a free relative clause. But unlike the analysis
proposed for non-interrogative ''how''-clauses ''when'' is moved from a lower
position.

(2) I hated when Bill left.  

While recent studies provide a deeper understanding of interrogative embedding
(cf. Uegaki 2015, Theiler et al. 2019, Mayr 2019), it remains to be
investigated under what circumstances non-interrogative subordinate wh‑clauses
are licensed and why some wh‑phrases can be polyfunctional, while others are
restricted to their literal meaning. Furthermore, such wh-clauses raise a
number of questions for the cross-linguistic wh‑hierarchy proposed by Šimík
(2011) and the formation of subordinate wh‑clauses in general.

In this workshop we would like to address syntactic as well as semantic issues
relating to non-interrogative subordinate wh-clauses, including (but not
limited to) cross-linguistic patterns and diachronic case studies. We also
welcome contributions from the perspective of non-canonical questions (see,
e.g., workshop on non-canonical questions in Konstanz in Nov. 2019) pertaining
to non-interrogative subordination.

Invited speakers (all confirmed): 

Sebastian Bücking, Universität Tübingen
Ivano Caponigro, University of California San Diego
Alte Grønn, University of Oslo
Roland Hinterhölzl, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Stefan Hinterwimmer, Universität Wuppertal
Kristina Liefke, Goethe University Frankfurt
Keir Moulton, University of Toronto
Andreas Pankau, Freie Universität Berlin
Lucia M. Tovena, Paris Diderot University
Radek Šimík, Charles University in Prague

The workshop is organized by Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) and
Carla Umbach (ZAS, Berlin, University of Cologne), and funded by a Daimler and
Benz Foundation grant to the first organizer (grant number 32-06/18).

Call for Papers:

In this workshop we would like to address syntactic as well as semantic issues
relating to non-interrogative subordinate wh-clauses, including (but not
limited to) cross-linguistic patterns and diachronic case studies. We also
welcome contributions from the perspective of non-canonical questions (see,
e.g., workshop on non-canonical questions in Konstanz in Nov. 2019) pertaining
to non-interrogative subordination.

In addition to invited talks there will be some slots available for submitted
talks and a poster session including lightning talks. We invite submissions of
anonymous abstracts (max. two pages, 11pt) by 31 October 2019.

Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format through the following EasyChair
page:

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nonqwhclauses2020

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