34.1234, Confs: On the Syntax of Adverbial Clauses in Insular Scandinavian and Övdalian

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Subject: 34.1234, Confs: On the Syntax of Adverbial Clauses in Insular Scandinavian and Övdalian

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Date: 14-Apr-2023
From: Łukasz Jędrzejowski [l.jedrzejowski at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: On the Syntax of Adverbial Clauses in Insular Scandinavian and Övdalian

On the Syntax of Adverbial Clauses in Insular Scandinavian and
Övdalian

Date: 21-Apr-2023 - 21-Apr-2023
Location: Cologne, Germany
Contact: Łukasz Jędrzejowski
Contact Email: l.jedrzejowski at uni-koeln.de
Meeting URL: http://www.lukasz-jedrzejowski.eu/adverbial-clauses-2/

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

Meeting Description:

A growing body of research has shown that adverbial clauses have a
much more intricate syntax than previously thought, providing a wealth
of new empirical findings. For instance, they differ dramatically with
respect to what kind of root phenomena they can host and what their
adjoin position is (cf. Badan & Haegeman 2022, Frey 2023a,b, and
Schönenberger & Haegeman 2023). Selected types of adverbial clauses
are also claimed to be noun modifiers and exhibit properties of
relative clauses (cf. Arsenijević 2021, Donati 1997). This is not
surprising however, as adverbial subjunctions often contain nominal
elements (see Blümel & Pitsch 2019 for an overview and Sigurðsson 1981
for Icelandic).

The main aim of this workshop is to bring together colleagues working
on the syntax of adverbial clauses in Faroese, Icelandic and Övdalian,
and contribute to a better understanding of adverbial dependency
relationships in the domain of clause-linkage. The workshop is planned
as a syntactic endeavor. Areas of interest include, but are not
limited to, the following topics:

– Although (selected types of) adverbial clauses have been examined in
Icelandic (cf. Angantýsson 2020, Angantýsson & Jonas 2020, Angantýsson
& Jędrzejowski 2023, Gärtner & Eythórsson 2020, 2023) studies devoted
to adverbial clauses in Faroese and Övdalian are almost non-existent.
And even though various observations on subordinate clauses have been
made (see, for instance, Barnes 1987, Thráinsson et al. 2004, Heycock
et al. 2010), there is still much to uncover. How adverbial clauses
are introduced, what their internal and external syntax is, and what
kind of variation they exhibit in the individual languages are central
questions addressed at the workshop.

– Independent studies have shown that Faroese, Icelandic and Övdalian
differ in many respects (see in particular the case studies collected
in Thráinson et al. 2007 and Bentzen et al. 2015 as well as
Angantýsson 2015, 2020, and Garbacz 2010, 2015). Nevertheless, not
much is known about variation of adverbial clauses in these languages.
In this context, we welcome novel contributions discussing the syntax
of adverbial clauses from a comparative perspective.

– Remarkably, Faarlund (2004: 269–270) observes that in Old Norse many
types of subordinate clauses with an adverbial function have the form
of a relative clause, moreover complementizers introducing adverbial
clauses also existed, specifically, as meðan ‘while’, unz ‘until’, or
ef ‘if’. Here, we are interested in contributions examining the origin
and development of adverbial clauses as well as their syntactic
distribution in contact situations (cf., for example, Arnbjörnsdóttir
et al. 2018 for North-American Icelandic).

The international workshop “On the Syntax of Adverbial Clauses in
Insular Scandinavian and Övdalian” is organized as part of the
scientific network “Adverbial clauses and subordinate dependency
relationships” founded by German Science Foundation granted to Łukasz
Jędrzejowski (grant number 455700544). The workshop will be hosted by
the Institute for German Language and Literature I at the University
of Cologne, on April 21, 2023.

Invited speakers (all confirmed):

Piotr Garbacz (University of Oslo)
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
Heimir F. Viðarsson (University of Iceland)

Program:

09:45–10:00: Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Ásgrímur
Angantýsson (University of Iceland):
Adverbial clauses in Insular Scandinavian and Övdalian

10:00–10:45: Piotr Garbacz (University of Oslo):
The typology of Övdalian adverbial clauses: Are they embedded?

10:45–11:30: Andreas Pankau (Free University of Berlin):
Agreeing ‘how’ in Övdalian and beyond

11:30–12:00: Refreshment break

12:00–12:45: Heimir Freyr Viðarsson (University of Iceland):
Going soft on adverbial clauses in Early Modern Icelandic: Theory
meets data

12:45–14:30: Lunch

14:30–15:15: Anna Bliß (Leipzig University):
Moods, reflexives and adverbial clauses in Icelandic

15:15–16:00: Hans-Martin Gärtner (Hungarian Research Center for
Linguistics) & Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland):
On two types of mood shift in Icelandic conditionals

16:00–16:30: Refreshment break

16:30–17:15: Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) & Ásgrímur
Angantýsson (University of Iceland):
On the internal and external syntax of adverbial clauses in Faroese.
With particular reference to causal and temporal clauses

17:15–18:00: Ásgrímur Angantýsson (University of Iceland), Łukasz
Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne), Annika Simonsen (University of
Iceland) & Oddur Snorrason (Queen Mary University of London):
On exceptive ‘uttan’-clauses in Faroese

18:00–18:10: Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Ásgrímur
Angantýsson (University of Iceland):
Concluding remarks

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