25.4778, Confs: Syntax, General Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 25.4778, Confs: Syntax, General Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 02:34:13
From: Hanna Christ [hanna.christ at uni-bamberg.de]
Subject: Secondary Syntax: Parentheticals, Vocatives, Quotations

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Secondary Syntax: Parentheticals, Vocatives, Quotations 

Date: 05-Dec-2014 - 06-Dec-2014 
Location: Bamberg, Germany 
Contact: Barbara Sonnenhauser 
Contact Email: secondary.syntax at gmx.de 
Meeting URL: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/germ-ling1/workshop-secondary-syntax-parentheticals-vocatives-quotations/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Structures such as parentheticals, vocatives, and quotations seem to stand outside of syntactic regularities. Despite their high frequency, they are usually treated as marginal phenomena. Cross-linguistically, they exhibit both common and divergent properties.

Without contextual disambiguation, the signalling of referential vs. vocative usage of a proper name is obligatory in German, (1): 

(1) a.Hast du Anna eine Praline weggenommen? 
'Have you taken a praline from Anna?'
b.Hast du, Anna, eine Praline weggenommen?
'Have you, Anna, taken a praline?' 

The prosodic signalling of non-integration prevents ambiguity. In Russian, such ambiguities would not arise automatically, since (some) vocatives are morphologically marked. The functional relevance of its syntactic position is evident in Russian as well: the double employment in (2) signifies a functional difference: 

(2) Dima, potorpis', Dima! (www.superputin.ru/21.html)
Dima, beeil dich Dima!
'Dima, hurry up, Dima!'

Performance structures like vocatives, parentheticals, and quotations are located on a 'secondary' level. They not only interact with 'primary' syntax, but may also be interrelated on this secondary level, cf. (3). Concerning the interaction of secondary and primary syntax, the Russian structure would be ungrammatical without explicit signalisation, since the participles delajuščij (masc.nom.sg) do not agree with their apparent head noun ėkzameny (masc.nom.pl). Due to their non-inflecting present participles, non-integration in German and English is signalled only graphically. Translating the exact interaction of primary and secondary syntax encountered for Russian is thus difficult. In all three cases, the parentheticals interact on the secondary level in that the second continues the first one: 

(3) Esli že ėkzameny po literature (delajuščij iz rebënka čeloveka) i istorii (delajuščij iz čeloveka graždanina) stanut objazatel'nymi, kartina izmenitsja. (Literaturnaja Gazeta)
Wenn aber die Prüfungen in Literatur (aus einem Kind einen Menschen machend) und Geschichte(aus einem Menschen einen Bürger machend) verpflichtend werden, wird sich das Bild ändern. 

If, however, the exams in literature (turning a child into a human being) and in history (turning a human being into a citizen) become obligatory, the picture will change.

The same can be observed for the quotations in (4): They relate to Medwedjew and Putin respectively, and are both part of some kind of dialogue located at the secondary level:  

(4) Während Medwedjew Akkordeon spielte und Putin sich das Tamburin auf das  Hinterteil schlug, drehte sich die Doppelspitze beschwingt um sich selbst: „Hopp!'' - „Bravo!''. (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
'While Medwedjew was playing the accordion and Putin was hitting the tambourine onto his backside, the double spearhead was swinging around exhilaratedly: ''Hopp!'' - ''Bravo!''.  

Performance structures still await a comprehensive description in their entirety. This workshop aims to investigate their shared properties as an essential part of 'secondary syntax'. 

Invited Speakers:

Martina Lampert 
Jörg Meibauer

Location: University of Bamberg

Organising committee: Patrizia Noel, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Hanna Christ, Daniel Klenovšak 

Program:

4 December 2014							

19:30
Warming-up				
Luitpold Boulevard-Café				
Schönleinsplatz 4, 96047 Bamberg				

5 December 2014							

10:00-10:20
Welcome

10:20-11:20	
Jörg Meibauer (University of Mainz)
Understanding Quotation. Puzzles and Prospects				

11:20-11:50 Coffee break				

11:50-12:20
Carlos García Castillero (University of the Basque Country)
Extraclausal NPs in Old Irish: formal and functional coherence, and their relationship with intraclausal components

12:25-12:55
Poppy Slocum (LaGuardia Community College/Long Island City, NY)
Mid-sentential Vocatives and Syntactic Islands				

13:00-15:00 Lunch break				

15:00-15:30
Daniel Gutzmann & Katharina Turgay (University of Frankfurt & University of Koblenz-Landau)
The marks of secondary syntax

15:35-16:05
Helmut Schaller (University of Marburg)
Vocatives in Slavic, Baltic, Balkan and other European languages

16:05-16:35 Coffee break				

16:35-17:05	
Patrizia Noel (University of Bamberg)	
A 'syntagmatic category' -  vocative in Standard German

6 December 2014							

9:30-10:30	
Martina Lampert (University of Mainz)
Cognitive motivations of second(ary) voices: Notes on parenthetical and quotative constructions from a multimodal perspective

10:35-11:05
Diana Forker (University of Bamberg)
Quotatives, parentheticals and evidentiality/epistemic modality in Nakh-Daghestanian languages

11:05-11:35 Coffee break				

11:35-12:05
Carolin Hofmockel und Anita Fetzer (University of Augsburg)
Secondary syntax: The glue of discourse?

12:10-12:40
Daniel Gutzmann (University of Frankfurt)
Stacking supplements (hierarchically)

12:40-14:40 Lunch break				

14:40-15:10	
Sandra Döring (University of Leipzig)
Parentheticals are -  presumably -  clausal

15:15-15:45
Barbara Sonnenhauser (University of Vienna/Munich)
Emerging voices: secondary syntax in a diachronic perspective

15:50-16:05
Conclusion

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