Date: April 13-14, 2012
Venue: Room 403, ZAS, Schützenstr. 18, Berlin (centre)
Invited speakers:
Catherine Fabricius Hansen (Oslo)
Shin Ishihara (Frankfurt)
Maria Polinsky (Harvard)
Marga Reis (Tübingen)
Meeting description
Several kinds of mismatches in clause linkage have been observed in the literature:
Behind the question of mismatches is a question of matches: Which sentence form canonically comes with which degree of integration (±peripheral in the sense of Haegeman 2006, ±dependent/±integrated in the sense of Reis 1997, mono- or biclausal in the sense of Cinque 2004)? What degree of integration canonically corresponds to what syntactic (Reis 1997), prosodic (Selkirk 2005), or semantic configuration (Portner 2007)?
If matches are economical, why do language systems develop mismatches? What do the mismatch cases show about the proper formulation of mapping regularities? What role do lexical restrictions play in the licensing of mismatches?
We invite submissions to a workshop on mismatches in clause linkage that take up such questions from both a language-specific and a cross-linguistic point of view, and we look forward to contributions from typologically diverse languages.
References
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Cinque, G. 2008. Two types of nonrestrictive relatives. In O. Bonami & P. Cabredo Hofherr (eds.), Empirical issues in Syntax and Semantics 7. 99-137.
Culicover, P.W. & Ray Jackendoff. 1997. Semantic subordination despite syntactic coordination. Linguistic Inquiry 28. 195-217.
Dehé, N. 2009. Clausal parentheticals, intonational phrasing, and prosodic theory. Journal of Linguistics 45. 569-615.
Fabricius-Hansen, C. 1980. Sogenannte ergänzende wenn-Sätze. Ein Beispiel syntaktisch-semantischer Argumentation. In M. Dyher et al. (eds.), Festschrift für Gunnar Bech. Kopenhagener Beiträge zur germanistischen Linguistik, Sonderband 1, 61-83.
Haegeman, L. 2006. Argument Fronting in English, Romance CLLD and the Left Periphery. In R. Zanuttini, H. Campos, E. Herburger, & P. Portner (eds.), Negation, tense and clausal architecture: Cross-linguistic investigations. Georgetown University Press, 27-52.
Legate, J.A. 2010. On how is used instead of that. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28. 121-134.
Portner, P. 2007. Instructions for interpretation as separate performatives. In K. Schwabe & S. Winkler (eds.), On Information Structure, Meaning and Form, 407-426. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Reis, M. 1997. Zum syntaktischen Status unselbständiger Verbzweit-Sätze. In C. Dürscheid & K.-J. Ramers (eds.), Sprache im Fokus, 121-144. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Selkirk, E. 2005. Comments on intonational phrasing in English. In S. Frota, M. Vigário & M.J. Freitas (eds.), Prosodies, 11-58. Berlin: Mouton.
Organizers: Laura Downing, Werner Frey, André Meinunger, Kerstin Schwabe, Barbara Stiebels, Hubert Truckenbrodt, Tonjes Veenstra