18.3263, Confs: Germanic, Syntax/Germany

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Subject: 18.3263, Confs: Germanic, Syntax/Germany

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Date: 05-Nov-2007
From: Ulrike Freywald < freywald at uni-potsdam.de >
Subject: Workshop: Main Clauses as Subordinate Clauses?

 

	
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From: Ulrike Freywald [freywald at uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: Workshop: Main Clauses as Subordinate Clauses? 
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Workshop: Main Clauses as Subordinate Clauses? 

Date: 01-Dec-2007 - 01-Dec-2007 
Location: Potsdam, Germany 
Contact: Ulrike Freywald 
Contact Email: freywald at uni-potsdam.de 
Meeting URL: http://uni-potsdam.de/ger_wiese/workshop.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Language Family(ies): Germanic 
Meeting Description: 

Main Clauses as Subordinate Clauses? 
Workshop on syntax and pragmatics of clause linkage 

The workshop deals with syntactic constructions which do not easily fit the
dichotomy of independent vs subordinate clauses. The talks will investigate the
grammatical properties of clauses which are marked both for subordination (e.g.
by argument status, occurence of a complementiser, etc.) and for independence
(e.g. by non-final verb placement, fixed position within the host sentence, etc.). 

These in-between cases are looked at from different linguistic perspectives in
order to establish possible ways of formal and functional description and
explanation. Furthermore, the question whether formal marking of a clause as
subordinate correlates with syntactic embedding and/or communicative
backgrounding will be discussed.

Speakers:

Hans-Werner Eroms, Passau
Ulrike Freywald, Potsdam
Wolfgang Imo, Muenster
Gunther Kaltenboeck, Wien
Andreas Loetscher, Basel
Marga Reis, Tuebingen & Angelika Woellstein, Koeln/Tuebingen

The talks will be held in German.

Workshop website: http://uni-potsdam.de/ger_wiese/workshop.html

Organization:
Ulrike Freywald
Department of German
University of Potsdam






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