35.1077, Confs: Adverbial Clauses in Argument Positions

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Subject: 35.1077, Confs: Adverbial Clauses in Argument Positions

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

Adverbial Clauses in Argument Positions

Date: 05-Apr-2024 - 06-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; Semantics; Syntax; Typology

Meeting Description:

Adverbial clauses are usually employed as sentential adjuncts that
restrict the truth value of the matrix clause or that provide a
motivation for why a speech act is uttered. Derivationally, they
involve a Pair-Merge operation. Complement clauses, in turn, occupy an
argument position of a clause-embedding expression, satisfy its
theta-grid, and involve a Set-Merge operation. Interestingly enough,
cross-linguistic studies have shown that adverbial clauses, in
particular conditional clauses, can also occur in argument positions
and be embedded under selected classes of clause-embedding predicates,
cf. Williams (1974), Pullum (1987), Pesetsky (1991), Rocchi (2010),
Thompson (2012), Sode (2021) for English, Fabricius-Hansen (1980),
Schmid (1987), Onea (2015), Schwabe (2015, 2016) for German, Quer
(2002) for Romance, and Steriopolo (2016) for Russian, cf. (1) for
‘if’ in English:

(1)     John would like it if Mary knew French.
        (Pesetsky 1991: 59, ex. 227a)

However, apart from few case studies (cf. e.g. Jędrzejowski 2020 on
hypothetical-comparative clauses in Polish or Berlet 2021 on temporal
clauses in German), less is known about other adverbial clause types
and their licensing in argument positions.

Furthermore, complement clauses often compete with other types of
subordinate clauses introduced by the adjuncts wh-phrases ‘when’,
‘how’, and occasionally by ‘why’, giving rise to a temporal,
conditional, manner, or reason interpretation (cf. Caponigro & Pearl
2009 and Hinterwimmer 2010 for ‘when’, Corver 2023, Legate 2010,
Liefke 2023, Umbach et al. 2022, 2023, among many others, for ‘how’,
and Caponigro & Fălăuls 2023 for ‘why’), as (2) for ‘when’ and (3) for
‘how’ show:

(2)     Paul hates it when his colleague snores.
        (Hinterwimmer 2010: 176, ex. 1a)

(3)     They told me how the tooth fairy doesn't really exist.
        (Legate 2010: 121, ex. 1)

However, the question of how the subordinate wh-clauses are related to
and differ from argument adverbial clauses has, to our knowledge, not
been addressed so far. Nor is it clear how to account for the
cross-linguistic differences pointed out in the literature.

The main aim of the conference is, therefore, to bring together recent
theoretical and experimental investigations on adverbial clauses and
subordinate clauses introduced by adjunct wh-phrases occurring in
argument positions. Due to a rich inventory of adverbial conjunctions
and various classes of clause-embedding predicates, we hope to gain
novel theoretical insights into how lexical properties of embedding
expressions affect their selection.

The international conference on "Adverbial clauses in argument
positions" is the fourth meeting 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 5–6, 2024, and is organized by Andreas Pankau and
Łukasz Jędrzejowski.

Invited speakers (all confirmed):

– Keir Moulton (University of Toronto)
– David Pesetsky (MIT)
– Susanne Wurmbrand (University of Vienna & Harvard University)

Selected references:

Berlet, Sophie. 2021. Temporale als-Sätze. Bachelor's thesis,
University of Cologne.

Caponigro, Ivano & Lisa Pearl. 2009. The nominal nature of where,
when, and how: Evidence from free relatives. Linguistic Inquiry 40(1):
155–164.

Hinterwimmer, Stefan. 2010. When-clauses, factive verbs and
correlates. In Gisbert Fanselow & Thomas Hanneforth (eds.), Language
and Logos: Festschrift for Peter Staudacher on his 70th Birthday
(Studia Grammatica 72), 176–189. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.

Legate, Julie Anne. 2010. On how how is used instead of that. Natural
Language and Linguistic Theory 28(1): 121–134.

Pesetsky, David. 1991. Zero Syntax, vol. 2: Infinitives. Manuscript,
MIT < http://lingphil.mit.edu/papers/pesetsk/infins.pdf>.

April 5 (Friday)

09:45–10:00:   Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Andreas
Pankau (FU Berlin)
                        Welcome and opening remarks

Chair:          Andreas Pankau

10:00–11:00:   Susanne Wurmbrand (University of Salzburg) – invited
speaker
                        A syntactic approach to tense in
complementation and beyond

11:00–11:30:    Refreshment break

Chair:          Frank Sode

11:30–12:30:    Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen) & Nobu Goto
(Toyo University)
                        Adjunct = External Merge of XP right after the
argument

12:30–14:30:    Lunch break

Chair:          Andreas Blümel

14:30–15:30:    Julia Bacskai-Atkari (University of Amsterdam &
University of Potsdam)
                        Cycles and reanalysis in inherent and contact
induced changes:
                        Against a declarative analysis of depictive
manner complements

15:30–16:30:    Carla Umbach (University of Cologne)
                        Depictive manner complements

16:30–17:00:    Refreshment break

17:00–18:00:    Keir Moulton (University of Toronto) – invited speaker
                        What is it possible to extract? Clausal
prolepsis and the DP shell hypothesis

April 6 (Saturday)

Chair:          Łukasz Jędrzejowski

10:00–11:00:    David Pesetsky (MIT) – invited speaker
                        TBA

Chair:          Julia Bacskai-Atkari

11:30–12:30:    Frank Sode (HU Berlin)
                        What German embedded V2-clauses can tell us
about ‘if’-clauses as arguments of preference predicates

12:30–12:45:    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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