35.1076, Confs: Mood Alternation in Adverbial Clauses

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Subject: 35.1076, Confs: Mood Alternation in Adverbial Clauses

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Date: 27-Mar-2024
From: Łukasz Jędrzejowski [l.jedrzejowski at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Mood Alternation in Adverbial Clauses


Mood alternation in adverbial clauses

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

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

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.

09:15–09:30:    Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Andreas
Pankau (FU Berlin)
                        Welcome and opening remarks

Chair:          Łukasz Jędrzejowski

09:30–10:30:    Josep Quer (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra University) – invited
speaker
                        The limits of argument-fulfilling adverbial
clauses and mood marking

10:30–11:00:    Refreshment break

Chair:          Marco Coniglio

11:00–12:00:    Rui Marques (University of Lisbon)
                        Mood alternation in concessive clauses of
Portuguese

12:00–13:00:    Martin Becker (University of Cologne)
                        On the diachronic evolution of concessive
clauses in French and Spanish

13:00–15:00:    Lunch break

Chair:          Rui Marques

15:00–16:00:    Marco Coniglio (University of Göttingen), Chiara De
Bastiani (University of Venice),
                        Roland Hinterhölzl (University of Venice) &
Svetlana Petrova  (University of Wuppertal):
                        Mood swings in West Germanic adverbial
clauses:
                        A diachronic comparative analysis

16:00–17:00:    Marta Massaia (Utrecht University)
                        Mood alternations in simulative clauses: The
(minor) role of subjunctive in the expression of irrealis

17:00–17:30:    Refreshment break

Chair:          Andreas Pankau

17:30–18:30:    Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago) –
invited speaker
                        Mood choice in complement clauses: Evidence
for flexible attitute meanings

18:30–19:00:    Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Andreas
Pankau (FU Berlin)
                        Concluding remarks and future plans


Registration is mandatory for non-presenters and guests.



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