Project details
- Full title: Adverbial clauses and subordinate dependency relationships
- Project format: scientific network
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Subject area: Humanities
- Funding institution: German Science Foundation
- Funding period: 11/2021 – 10/2024
- Number of workshops: 6 (University of Cologne x2, University of Göttingen x1, University of Tübingen x1, University of Konstanz x1, University of Hamburg x1)
- Principal investigator: Łukasz Jędrzejowski, University of Cologne, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of German Language and Literature I – Linguistics
Contact details
- Network coordinator: Łukasz Jędrzejowski (l.jedrzejowski@uni-koeln.de)
- Student assistant: Alina Yehorova (ayehorov@smail.uni-koeln.da)
(formerly: Cornelia Will, 11/2021 – 04/2022) - Network e-mail address: adverbial-clauses@uni-koeln.de
Brief project description
The main aim of this network project is to investigate adverbial clauses and their dependency relationships from a synchronic, diachronic and typological perspective, and to provide a deeper understanding of subordinate clauses in general. Questions addressed during the individual meetings concern, among many others, dependency relationships between the adverbial clause and the matrix clause, the development and variation of adverbial clauses, their non-canonical uses, e.g. as adnominal adverbial clauses or as adverbial argument clauses, etc. The main focus is on Celtic, Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages.
Future events
– 4th October 2023: pre-workshop on adverbial clauses in creole and pidgin languages organized by Łukasz Jędrzejowski, University of Göttingen
– 5th and 6th October 2023: third international conference on adverbial clauses, organized by Łukasz Jędrzejowski, Mailin Antomo, Andreas Blümel & Marco Coniglio, University of Göttingen.
Invited speakers (confirmed):
- Werner Frey (formerly Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin)
- Fatima Hamlaoui (University of Toronto)
[Call for Papers] [Call for Papers 2]
Network members (in alphabetical order)
- Ásgrímur Angantýsson (University of Iceland)
- Mailin Antomo (University of Göttingen)
- Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen)
- Sebastian Bücking (University of Siegen)
- Isabelle Charnavel (University of Geneva)
- Marco Coniglio (University of Göttingen)
- Eva Csipak (University of British Columbia)
- Lieven Danckaert (University of Lille)
- Sam Featherston (University of Tübingen)
- Werner Frey (Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin)
- Melitta Gillmann (University of Duisburg-Essen)
- Stefan Hinterwimmer (University of Wuppertal)
- Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne)
- Karen Lahousse (KU Leuven)
- Andreas Pankau (Free University of Berlin)
- Hagen Pitsch (Leipzig University)
- Carla Umbach (University of Cologne & Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin)
- Sophie von Wietersheim (University of Göttingen)
- David Willis (University of Oxford)
Invited speakers and guests (in alphabetical order)
- Katrin Axel-Tober (University of Tübingen)
- Ivano Caponigro (University of California San Diego)
- Regine Eckardt (University of Konstanz)
- Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University)
- Roland Hinterhölzl (University of Venice)
- Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- Richard K. Larson (Stony Brook University)
- Roland Meyer (Humboldt University of Berlin)
- David Pesetsky (MIT)
- Maria Polinsky (University of Maryland)
- Marga Reis (University of Tübingen)
- Ken Safir (Rutgers University)
Associate network members (in alphabetical order)
- Irina Burukina (Eötvös Loránd University & Research Centre for Linguistics, ELKH, Budapest)
- Norbert Corver (Utrecht University)
- Manuel Delicado Cantero (The Australian National University)
- Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland)
- Richard Faure (University of Tours)
- Heimir Freyr Viðarsson (University of Iceland)
- Constanze Fleczoreck (University of Hanover)
- Hans-Martin Gärtner (Hungarian Research Center for Linguistics, Budapest)
- Ekaterina Georgieva (Hungarian Research Center for Linguistics, Budapest)
- Wojciech Guz (Catholic University of Lublin)
- Jet Hoek (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Hasmik Jivanyan (University of Geneva)
- Marta Massaia (Utrecht University)
- Lidia Federica Mazzitelli (University of Cologne)
- Moreno Mitrović (Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin)
- David Müller (University of Geneva)
- Kalle Müller (University of Tübingen)
- Gianluca Porta (Ulster University)
- Radek Šimík (Charles University)
- Wellington Souza (State University of Campinas)
- Hana Strachoňová (Masaryk University & Charles University)
- Jirayu Tharincharoen (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg)
- Lex Tavenier (Utrecht University)
- Qiuhao Charles Yan (Queen Mary University of London)
- Regina Zieleke (University of Tübingen)
Guests (in alphabetical order)
- Hans-Martin Gärtner (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics): visiting scholar in April 2023
- Jakob Maché (University of Lisbon): visiting scholar in May 2022
- Pierre-Ives Modicom (University of Bordeaux): visiting scholar in June 2022
- Ken Safir (Rutgers University): visiting scholar in May 2022
- Qiuhao Charles Yan (Queen Mary University of London): visiting scholar in January 2023
Members’ publications
2023
- Ángantýsson, Ásgrímur & Łukasz Jędrzejowski: Layers of subordinate clauses: A view from causal af-því-að-clauses in Icelandic, in: Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses. Synchronic and Diachronic Insights ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Constanze Fleczoreck, 184–220. Amsterdam: John Benjamins [DOI].
- Frey, Werner: Types of German causal clauses and their syntactic-semantic layers, in: Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses. Synchronic and Diachronic Insights ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Constanze Fleczoreck, 51–100. Amsterdam: John Benjamins [DOI].
- Hoek, Jet & Merel C. J. Scholman: Expressing non-volitional causality in English, in: Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses. Synchronic and Diachronic Insights ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Constanze Fleczoreck, 167–183. Amsterdam: John Benjamins [DOI].
- Jędrzejowski, Łukasz & Constanze Fleczoreck: Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses. Synchronic and Diachronic Insights (Studies in Language Companion Series 231). Amsterdam: John Benjamins [DOI].
- Schönenberger, Manuela & Liliane Haegeman: English rationale since and a reassessment of the typology of adverbial clauses, in: Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses. Synchronic and Diachronic Insights ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Constanze Fleczoreck, 129–166. Amsterdam: John Benjamins [DOI].
2022
- Badan, Linda & Liliane Haegeman: The syntax of peripheral adverbial clauses. Journal of Linguistics 58(4): 697–738 [DOI].
- Chen, Yuqiu / Maik Thalmann & Mailin Antomo: Presupposition triggers and (not-)at-issueness: Insights from language acquisition into the soft-hard distinction. Journal of Pragmatics 199: 21–46; [DOI].
- Jędrzejowski, Łukasz: On the synchrony, variation and diachrony of adverbial exceptive clauses in Polish, in: Glossa. A Journal of General Linguistics 6(1): 1–41; [pdf], [DOI].
- Jędrzejowski, Łukasz: Zu Entstehungsumständen von mirativen um-zu-Sätzen im Deutschen, in: Paths through meaning and form. Festschrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday ed. by Chiara Gianollo / Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Sofiana I. Lindemann, 134–137. Köln: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln [pdf], [DOI].
- Lahousse, Karen: Is focus a root phenomenon? In: When Data Challenges Theory. Unexpected and Paradoxical Evidence in Information Structure (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today 273) ed. by Davide Garassino & Daniel Jacob, 147–182. Amsterdam: John Benjamins [DOI].
- Šimík, Radek, Petr Biskup, Kateřina Bartasová, Markéta Dančová, Eliška Dostálková, Kateřina Hrdinková, Gabriela Kosková, Jaromír Kozák, Klára Lupoměská, Albert Maršík, Edita Schejbalová, and Illia Yekimov. 2022. Extraction from clausal adjuncts in Czech: A rating study. In Özge Bakay, Breanna Pratley, Eva Neu, and Peyton Deal (eds.), NELS 52: Proceedings of the Fifty-Second Annual Meeting of the Norht East Linguistic Society, Volume Three, 109–123. Amherst, MA: GLSA Publications [Link].
- von Wietersheim, Sophie: The Syntactic Integration of Adverbial Clauses. Experimental Evidence from Anaphoric Relations [Studien zur deutschen Grammatik 101]. Tübingen: Stauffenburg [book website].
- Yan, Qiuhao Charles: The structure of SAY verbs and temporal modification. Snippets 43: 7–9.
- Zieleke, Regina & Łukasz Jędrzejowski: Dennochs Reise in die linke Peripherie, in: Paths through meaning and form. Festschrift offered to Klaus von Heusinger on the occasion of his 60th birthday ed. by Chiara Gianollo / Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Sofiana I. Lindemann, 274–279. Köln: Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln [pdf], [DOI].
2021
- Antomo, Mailin / Yuqiu Chen & Maik Thalmann: (Un)Selbstständigkeit von Sätzen und Main Point of Utterance: Appositive Relativsätze und deren Erwerb. In: Neues zur Selbstständigkeit von Sätzen (Linguistische Berichte Sonderheft 30) ed. by Robert Külpmann & Rita Finkbeiner, 257–279 [abstract].
- Bücking, Sebastian: The grammar of PP-like free relatives: Evidence from subordinate wo-clauses in German. Linguistic Inquiry [Link].
- Umbach, Carla / Stefan Hinterwimmer & Helmar Gust: German wie-complements. Manners, methods and events in progress. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory [DOI].
Past events
- 21st April 2023: workshop On the Syntax of Adverbial Clauses in Insular Scandinavian and Övdalian organized by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Ásgrímur Angantýsson, University of Cologne, invited speakers (all confirmed):Piotr Garbacz (University of Oslo)
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh)
Heimir Freyr Viðarsson (University of Iceland)
[CfP1] [CfP2] [schedule] [poster] -
April 21 (Friday)
09:45–10:00:
Adverbial clauses in Insular Scandinavian and Övdalian
Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) &
Ásgrímur Angantýsson (University of Iceland)10:00–10:45: The typology of Övdalian adverbial clauses: Are they embedded?
Piotr Garbacz (University of Oslo)10:45–11:30: Agreeing ‘how’ in Övdalian and beyond
Andreas Pankau (Free University of Berlin)11:30–12:00: Refreshment break
12:00–12:45: Going soft on adverbial clauses in Early Modern Icelandic: Theory meets data
Heimir Freyr Viðarsson (University of Iceland)12:45–14:30: Lunch break 14:30–15:15: Moods, reflexives and adverbial clauses in Icelandic
Anna Bliß (Leipzig University)15:15–16:00: On two types of mood shift in Icelandic conditionals
Hans-Martin Gärtner (Hungarian Research Center for Linguistics) &
Thórhallur Eythórsson (University of Iceland)16:00–16:30: Refreshment break 16:30–17:15: On the internal and external syntax of adverbial clauses in Faroese.
With particular reference to causal and temporal clauses
Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh) &
Ásgrímur Angantýsson (University of Iceland)17:15–18:00: On exceptive uttan-clauses in Faroese
Ásgrímur Angantýsson (University of Iceland),
Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne),
Annika Simonsen (University of Iceland) &
Oddur Snorrason (Queen Mary University of London)18:00–18:10 Concluding remarks
Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) &
Ásgrímur Angantýsson (University of Iceland)20:00– Conference dinner - 27th and 28th January 2023: second international conference on adverbial clauses: On the Diachrony of Adverbial Clauses organized by Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Sam Featherston, University of Tübingen, invited speakers: Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge) & Augustin Speyer (Saarland University)
January 27 (Friday) |
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10:00–10:30: |
Opening remarks Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne, Germany) |
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Chair: | Gianluca Porta (Ulster University, UK) | |
10:30–11:30: | Reinforcing edges: adverbial developments in Afrikaans Theresa Biberauer (University of Cambridge, UK / Stellenbosch University, SA) |
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11:30–12:00: | Refreshment break |
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12:00–13:00: | On different types of adverbial clauses appearing outside of their hosts Werner Frey (formerly at Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin, Germany) |
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13:00–15:00: | Lunch break | |
Chair: | Qiuhao Charles Yan (Queen Mary University of London, UK) | |
15:00–16:00: | On similative clauses in Germanic Marta Massaia (Utrecht University, Netherlands) |
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16:00–17:00: | Some observations on ‘how’ in Lower Sorbian Andreas Pankau (Free University of Berlin, Germany) |
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January 28 (Saturday) |
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Chair: | Constanze Fleczoreck (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany) | |
10:00–11:00 | Boring integration, exciting independence. On the role of informativity for integration of adverbial clauses Augustin Speyer (Saarland University, Germany) |
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11:00–12:00: | Then and now: three relic functions of że ‘that’ in present-day spoken Polish Wojciech Guz (University of Lublin, Poland) |
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12:00–12:30: | Concluding remarks and future plans Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne, Germany) |
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12:30–14:30: | Lunch break | |
14:30–18:00: | Round-table discussions / individual meetings of network members |
- 20th-21st May 2022: first international conference on adverbial clauses between subordination and coordination [CfP1] [CfP2] [schedule] [poster]
May 20 (Friday) |
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09:00–09:10: |
Opening remarks and introduction Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) |
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Chair: | Giuseppina di Bartolo (University of Cologne) | |
09:10–10:10: | The typology of adverbial clauses and the role of discourse syntax Liliane Haegeman (Ghent University, Belgium) |
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10:40–11:10: | A bi-dimensional account for adverbial clauses between discourse and grammar: Constructional-illocutionary taxonomy and discourse-communicative information structure Hasmik Jivanyan (University of Geneva, Switzerland) |
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11:10–11:30: | Refreshment break | |
Chair: | Timo Buchholz (University of Cologne) | |
11:30–12:00 | Remarks on adnominal conditional clauses and beyond Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen, Germany) |
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12:00–12:30: | Free adjunction and the distribution of Japanese -to adverbial clauses (online talk via Zoom) Takashi Munakata (Yokoahama National University, Japan) |
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12:30–14:30: | Lunch break | |
Chair: | Jakob Maché (University of Lisbon) | |
14:30–15:00: | Central adverbial clauses are integrated in the structure right above vP Wellington Souza de Paula (State University of Campinas, Brazil) |
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15:00–15:30: | Merge vs. Move in central and peripheral adverbial clauses in Chinese. Evidence from intervention effect Marco Casentini (University of Rome, Italy) / Giorgio Carella (University of Roma Tre, Italy) & Mara Frascarelli (University of Roma Tre, Italy) |
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15:30–16:00: | Subject vs object binding as evidence for degrees of clausal subordination Sophie von Wietersheim (Unversity of Göttingen, Germany) & Sam Featherston (University of Tübingen, Germany): |
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16:00–16:20: | Refreshment break | |
Chair: | Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) | |
16:20–16:50: | On the interpretability of epistemic modal operators in event-related adverbial clauses Jakob Maché (University of Lisbon, Portugal) |
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16:50–17:20: | P or not P – not really a question: A fresh view on the complement/adjunct distinction Hagen Pitsch (University of Göttingen, Germany) |
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17:20–18:20: | Just Pair–merge: Are adjuncts syntactically defined by operations or representations? (also as an online talk via Zoom) Ken Safir (Rutgers University, USA) |
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May 21 (Saturday) |
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Chair |
Sophie von Wietersheim (Unversity of Göttingen) | |
09:00–10:00: |
Parataxis to Hypotaxis – (How) does it ever happen? Regine Eckardt (University of Konstanz, Germany) |
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10:00–10:30: | Times and events in temporal clauses Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) |
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10:30–10:50: | Refreshment break | |
Chair: | Andreas Pankau (Free University of Berlin) | |
10:50–11:20: | On exceptive nema-clauses in Icelandic Oddur Snorrason (University of Cambridge, UK) / Ásgrímur Angantýsson (University of Iceland, Iceland) & Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne, Germany) |
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11:20–11:50 | On coordinate converbs Ekaterina Georgieva (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary) |
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11:50–13:30: | Lunch break | |
Chair: | Oddur Snorrason (University of Cambridge) | |
13:30–14:00: | Left-right asymmetries in conditional clause attachment and multiple complementizers Nicola Munaro (University of Venice, Italy) |
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14:00–14:30: | Extraction from clausal adjuncts in Czech: A rating study Radek Šimík / Petr Biskup / Kateřina Bartasová / Markéta Dančová / Eliška Dostálková / Kateřina Hrdinková / Gabriela Kosková / Jaromír Kozák / Klára Lupoměská / Albert Maršík / Edita Schejbalová & Illia Yekimov (Charles University, Czech Republic) |
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14:30–15:00: | A copy-raising analysis of proleptic wie-clauses in German Andreas Pankau (Free University of Berlin, Germany) |
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15:00–15:20: | Refreshment break | |
Chair: | Ekaterina Georgieva (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) | |
15:20–15:50: | Adverbial clauses: Not that much of an issue? Jet Hoek (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) |
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15:50–16:20: | Depictive manner complements Carla Umbach (University of Cologne, Germany) |
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16:20–16:50: | Resisting the adverbial temptation: On Hingeh-und-structures in German Sebastian Bücking (University of Siegen, Germany) |
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16:50–17:10: | Refreshment break | |
Chair: | Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) | |
17:10–18:10: | What adverbials and adverbial clauses may teach us about quantification (online talk via Zoom) Richard K. Larson (Stony Brook University, USA) |
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18:10–18:20: | Concluding remarks and future plans Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) |
- 17th December 2021: online kickoff workshop of the project [slides]