35.538, Calls: Mood Alternation in Adverbial Clauses

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Subject: 35.538, Calls: Mood Alternation in Adverbial Clauses

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Date: 15-Feb-2024
From: Łukasz Jędrzejowski [l.jedrzejowski at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Mood Alternation in Adverbial Clauses


Full Title: Mood alternation in adverbial clauses

Date: 04-Apr-2024 - 04-Apr-2024
Location: Berlin, Germany
Contact Person: Łukasz Jędrzejowski
Meeting Email: adverbial-clauses at uni-koeln.de
Web Site: http://www.lukasz-jedrzejowski.eu/adverbial-clauses-2/

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

Call Deadline: 05-Mar-2024

Meeting Description:

Every clause is associated with a specific intention and bears a
specific mood expressing a propositional attitude. As a morphological
device for coding modality, mood is used in independent and
subordinate clauses. In some (cross-linguistic) cases, a single clause
type allows the use of distinct moods creating mood alternation and
triggering different interpretative effects. Mood choice is therefore
not random, but a systematic grammatical phenomenon that has attracted
much attention in the literature (cf. Quer 1998, Becker & Remberger
2010, Błaszczak et al. 2016, Portner 2018, Giannakidou & Mari 2021,
among many others). Several attempts have been made to identify the
relevant principles that account for mood selection and alternation,
not only in independent clauses (cf. e.g. Lohnstein 2000), but also in
complement clauses (cf. Marques 2009, Mari & Portner 2021, Nematollahi
2023) and relative clauses (cf. Farkas 1982, Borgonovo et al. 2015,
Coniglio 2017). However, apart from selected case studies less is
known about mood alternation in adverbial clauses.

The main aim of the workshop is to bring together recent theoretical
and experimental investigations on mood alternation in adverbial
clauses to better understand what role modality plays in the
interpretation and the derivation of adjunct clauses. We furthermore
hope to gain novel theoretical insights into how adverbial subordinate
dependency relationships work and, through synergy effects, to provide
a deeper understanding of how mood as a grammatical category is used
in subordinate contexts.

The international workshop on "Mood alternation in adverbial clauses"
is organized as part of the scientific network "Adverbial clauses and
subordinate dependency relationships" funded by German Science
Foundation granted to Łukasz Jędrzejowski (grant number 455700544).
The conference will be hosted by the ‘Institut für Deutsche und
Niederländische Philologie’ at the Free University of Berlin, on April
4, 2024, and is organized by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Andreas Pankau.

Invited speakers (confirmed):

Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)
Josep Quer (Pompeu Fabra University)

Selected references:

Becker, Martin G. & Eva-Maria Remberger (eds.). 2010. Modality and
Mood in Romance: Modal Interpretation, Mood Selection, and Mood
Alternation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Borgonovo, Claudia, Joyce Bruhn de Garavito & Philippe Prévost. 2015.
Mood selection in relative clauses. Interfaces and variability.
Studies in Second Language Acquisition 37(1). 33–69.

Giannakidou, Anastasia & Alda Mari. 2021. Truth and Veridcality in
Grammar and Thought. Mood, Modality, and Propositional Attitudes.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Marques, Rui. 2009. On the selection of mood in complement clauses.
In: Lotte Hogeweg, Helen de Hoop & Andrej Malchukov (eds.),
Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Modality, 179–204.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Quer Josep. 1998. Mood at the Interfaces (LOT International Series 1).
The Hague: Holland Academic Graphs.

Call for Papers:

Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the
following questions:

– Which moods alternate in adverbial clauses? What interpretive
effects follow from the choice of a particular mood? What does mood
alternation teach us about subordinate dependency relationships
between the matrix clause and the adverbial clause?

– What factors trigger a mood competition in adverbial clauses? How
does the mood interact with other grammatical categories/concepts,
e.g. with temporality, negation, veridicality, etc.?

– How can we account for cross-linguistic differences in mood
alternation in a particular adverbial clause type? Why do, for
example, concessive clauses in Icelandic and Portuguese select the
subjunctive, whereas their English and Polish counterparts take the
indicative (cf. Harris 1988, Quer 2001)?

– How did mood alternation work in older stages and how did it change
over time? What factors triggered the change (cf. Grund & Walker 2006,
Jones & Macleod 2020, Coniglio et al. 2021)?

– How do language contact situations affect mood choice in adverbial
clauses (cf. Silva-Corvalán 1994, Viner 2018, de Prada Pérez et al.
2023)?

At this workshop we would like to address syntactic and semantic
issues relating to mood alternation including cross-linguistic
patterns and case studies from less known languages.

The workshop will be followed by an international conference on
adverbial clauses used in argument positions.

We invite submission of abstracts for 40-minute oral presentations
(with additional 20 minutes for questions) on topics that address mood
alternation in adverbial clauses. These may include case studies as
well as formal theories of particular adverbial clause types. We also
welcome research at the interfaces with semantics and other areas, as
long as the research makes a contribution to the area of mood
alternation in adverbial clauses.

Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format to
adverbial-clauses at uni-koeln.de, with all non-standard fonts embedded.
Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages, which includes the data. An
additional third page may be used for references. Abstracts must be
submitted in letter or A4 format with 1 inch or 2.5cm margins on all
sides, single-spaced, and in a font no smaller than 11pt. Abstracts
should be anonymous. Please make sure that PDF files do not have any
identifying metadata. Submissions are limited to one individual and
one joint abstract per author (or two joint abstracts per author).

Please submit abstracts to adverbial-clauses at uni-koeln.de no later
than March 5, 2024.

Notification:   March 8, 2024

For inquiries, please send an e-mail to adverbial-clauses at uni-koeln.de

Selected references:

Coniglio, Marco, Chiara De Bastiani, Roland Hinterhölzl & Thomas
Weskott. 2021. In the right mood, in the right place: On mood and verb
placement in Old Germanic subordinate clauses. Journal of Historical
Syntax 5 (Article 4): 1–27.

Harris, Martin. 1988. Concessive clauses in English and Romance. In:
John Haiman & Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), Clause Combining in Grammar
and Discourse, 71–99. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Jones, Howard & Morgan Macleod. 2020. Semantics and syntax in Old
English mood selection. Transactions of the Philological Society
118(2). 304–339.

Quer Josep. 2001. Mood and varieties of concessives. In: Reineke
Bok-Bennema, Bob de Jonge, Brigitte Kampers-Manhe & Arie L. Molendijk
(eds.), Adverbial Modification. Selected Papers from the Fifth
Colloquium on Romance Linguistics, Groningen, 10–12 September 1998,
93–108. Leiden: Brill.

Silva-Corvalán, Carmen. 1994. The gradual loss of mood distinctions in
Los Angeles Spanish. Language Variation and Change 6(3). 255–272.

Viner, Kevin Martillo. 2018. The optional Spanish subjunctive mood
grammar of New York City heritage bilinguals. Lingua 210–211. 79–94.



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