33.697, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Semantics, Syntax/Germany
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Subject: 33.697, Calls: Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Theories, Semantics, Syntax/Germany
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 18:09:34
From: Lukasz Jedrzejowski [l.jedrzejowski at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: Adverbial clauses between subordination and coordination
Full Title: Adverbial clauses between subordination and coordination
Date: 20-May-2022 - 21-May-2022
Location: Cologne, Germany
Contact Person: Lukasz Jedrzejowski
Meeting Email: l.jedrzejowski at uni-koeln.de
Web Site: http://www.lukasz-jedrzejowski.eu/adverbial-clauses-2/
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Syntax
Call Deadline: 21-Mar-2022
Meeting Description:
The international conference “Adverbial clauses between subordination and
coordination” is the first meeting of the scientific network “Adverbial
clauses and subordinate dependency relationships” founded by German Science
Foundation granted to Łukasz Jędrzejowski (grant number 455700544). The
conference will be hosted by the Institute for German Language and Literature
I – Linguistics at the University of Cologne, on May 20–21, 2022.
Recent versions of minimalist theorizing assume Set-Merge and Pair-Merge as
two basic structure-building operations (Chomsky 2004, Bode 2020, Safir 2020).
Interestingly, both operations can apply to adverbial clauses. The adverbial
clause α can be Pair Merged to the XP-level to yield <α, XP>, α adjoined to XP
(Larson 1990, Blümel & Pitsch 2019), or it can be c-selected and participate
in a Set-Merge operation (cf. e.g. Pesetsky’s 1991 ‘If-Copying Rule’ for
conditional clauses). Given the various functions of adverbial clauses and
their variation, the major aim of this conference is to examine adverbial
clauses synchronically and diachronically, and contribute to a better
understanding of structure-building operations in general.
Synchronically, adverbial clauses have been divided into three classes:
central/embedded, peripheral and non-integrated subordinate clauses, resulting
in three distinct attachment heights, cf. Frey (to appear) and Schönenberger &
Haegeman (to appear), differing from each other in what kinds of root
phenomena they can host, and giving rise to distinct interpretative effects.
Remarkably, non-integrated adverbial clauses including sentential speech act
modifiers (e.g. ‘To be honest with you, I’ve never really liked them’) have
been shown to exhibit striking properties typical of coordinate structures.
The overlap of formal properties raises the issue of how adverbial clauses can
be derived in a unified way (cf. Larson 2016).
Diachronically, new types of adverbial clauses have been mainly traced back to
other subordinate environments, in particular to correlative/relative
structures, cf. Eberhardt & Axel-Tober (to appear). Their origin usually
involves grammaticalization, reanalysis, rebracketing and/or relabeling (van
Gelderen 2021, Weiß 2021), and reorganizes the composition of formal features
(van Gelderen 2008). However, less is known about the extent to which
coordinative structures can give rise to adverbial clauses, and how these
processes differ from the well-known cases restricted to subordinate contexts.
At this conference we would like to address syntactic as well as semantic
issues relating to adverbial clauses, including cross-linguistic patterns and
case studies from less known languages.
Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following
questions:
– How can adverbial modification of the matrix clause be modeled in such a way
as to capture the basic properties of all adverbial clauses?
– Do all types of adverbial clauses involve a single structure-building
operation (e.g. Pair-Merge)? How does adjunction work if an adverbial clause
modifies a speech act? To what extent should c selection be reconsidered if an
adverbial clause satisfies the theta-grid of a clause-embedding predicate?
– How do adverbial clauses emerge? Do they originate in subordinate
environments and involve (only) a restructuring of the CP domain or can they
also emerge out of coordinative structures presupposing a radical
reorganization of the entire clause structure?
– What kind of syntactic/semantic processes does the diachrony of adverbial
clauses evoke? How do formal features change and how do these changes affect
the subordination system in general?
Invited speakers (all confirmed):
Regine Eckardt (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University, Belgium)
Richard Larson (Stony Brook University, USA)
Ken Safir (Rutgers University, USA)
Call for Papers:
We invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations (with
additional 15 minutes for questions) on topics that address the status of
adverbial clauses on the continuum between subordination and coordination.
These may include case studies, studies of trends, corpus results, 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 adverbial clauses. Preference will be
given to theoretically oriented papers and novel case studies.
Important dates:
- Submission deadline: 21 March 2022
- Notification of acceptance: 30 March 2022
Submission details:
- Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format to
(adverbial-clauses at uni-koeln.de), with all non-standard fonts embedded.
- Abstracts should not exceed 3 pages, which includes the data. An additional
fourth page may be used for references.
- Abstracts must be submitted in letter or A4 format with 1 inch or 2.5 cm
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).
- For more details, view the CFP here:
http://www.lukasz-jedrzejowski.eu/conferences/Adverbial-clauses-2022-CfP.pdf
At this conference we would like to address syntactic as well as semantic
issues relating to adverbial clauses, including cross-linguistic patterns and
case studies from less known languages.
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