37.911, Confs: International Workshop on Adverbial Clauses and Prosody (Germany)

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Subject: 37.911, Confs: International Workshop on Adverbial Clauses and Prosody (Germany)

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Date: 03-Mar-2026
From: Łukasz Jędrzejowski [lukasz.jedrzejowski at uia.no]
Subject: International Workshop on Adverbial Clauses and Prosody

International Workshop on Adverbial Clauses and Prosody

Date: 12-Mar-2026 - 13-Mar-2026
Location: Potsdam, Germany
Contact: Łukasz Jędrzejowski
Contact Email: lukasz.jedrzejowski at uia.no
Meeting URL: http://www.lukasz-jedrzejowski.eu/adverbial-clauses-2/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax

Schedule:
March 12 (Thursday)
09:30–10:30:
Jan Fließbach (University of Potsdam) & Łukasz Jędrzejowski
(University of Agder):
Adverbial clauses and prosody: Setting the scene
10:30–11:00: Refreshment break
11:00–12:00:
Fatima Hamlaoui (University of Toronto):
The prosody and flexible syntax-phonology mapping of adverbial clauses
in Basaá (Bantu A43a)
12:00–14:00: Lunch
14:00–15:00:
Matthias Mittendorfer (University of Vienna) & Elnora Ten Wolde
(University of Graz):
The intonation of clause combining: The case of ‘so (that)’ purpose
and result adverbials
15:00–15:30: Refreshment break
15:30–16:30:
Edward Göbbel (University of Wuppertal):
The prosodic realization of temporal clauses in English
18:30: Dinner
March 13 (Friday)
09:30–10:30:
Emily Elfner (York University):
What can Match Theory tell us about the prosody of adverbial clauses?
10:30–11:00: Refreshment break
11:00–12:00:
Jakob Maché (University of Lisbon):
Intonational phrasing of tropicalized adverbial clauses in German
12:00–14:00: Lunch
14:00–15:00:
Timo Buchholz (University of Tübingen):
Can we integrate that? Anaphor resolution effects of high boundary
tones in adverbial and factive embedded clauses
15:00–15:30:
Jan Fließbach (University of Potsdam) & Łukasz Jędrzejowski
(University of Agder):
Concluding remarks
18:30: Dinner
Non-presenters who wish to participate are kindly requested to
register by sending an informal email to Łukasz Jędrzejowski
(lukasz.jedrzejowski at uia.no). Please note that registration is
mandatory.
Meeting Description:
Since Downing's (1970) seminal work on English intonational phrases
(IPs), a growing body of literature has shown that selected types of
subordinate clauses can clearly form their own IPs. As for English, it
has been generally observed that adverbial clauses are prosodically
integrated into the matrix clause when they appear in their base
position or attach to a position that is in the scope of the main
verb. For example, Downing (1970: 82) observes that temporal
"while"-clauses do not form a separate IP, whereas adversative
"while"-clauses do. This is in accordance with Haegeman's (2003)
typology of adverbial clauses, according to which temporal
"while"-clauses are analyzed as syntactically embedded clauses,
whereas their adversative counterparts are taken to be base-generated
within the CP domain of the matrix clause and to be more independent.
Selkirk (2005: 22–28) makes a similar observation about
"because"-clauses occurring to the right of the matrix clause. When
they are VP modifiers, there is no IP break required at the adjunction
point. But when, on the other hand, "because"-clauses are used as
higher adjuncts, they usually require their own IPs. However, it is
everything but obvious that when adverbial clauses attach higher in
the clause structure – either to the right or to the left – they form
an IP of their own (cf. Hamlaoui 2023 and Hamlaoui & Szendrői 2025 for
a recent overview of typological data). Furthermore, Frey (2011:
49–51) points out that peripheral adverbial clauses can have the same
options of prosodic realization as central adverbial clauses. The
current state of affairs on adverbial clauses and their prosody calls
therefore for new studies and novel insights.
The main aim of the workshop is to fill this gap by bringing together
recent theoretical and experimental investigations on prosody of
adverbial clauses. Furthermore, we hope to gain novel theoretical
insights into how adverbial subordinate dependency relationships work
and, through synergy effects, to provide a deeper understanding of how
prosody is used in subordinate contexts.
The international workshop on "Adverbial clauses and prosody" 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) and
led by Andreas Pankau. The workshop will be hosted by the Institute
for Romance Studies at the University of Potsdam, on March 12-13,
2026, and is organized by Jan Fliessbach and Łukasz Jędrzejowski.

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