33.1709, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 33.1709, Confs: Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Semantics, Syntax/Germany

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Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 23:15:46
From: Lukasz Jedrzejowski [l.jedrzejowski at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Adverbial clauses between subordination and coordination

Adverbial clauses between subordination and coordination 

Date: 20-May-2022 - 21-May-2022 
Location: Cologne, Germany 
Contact: Lukasz Jedrzejowski 
Contact Email: l.jedrzejowski at uni-koeln.de 
Meeting URL: 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 at uni-koeln.de

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