Adverbial clauses and their dependency relationships

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 – 04/2026
• Number of workshops: 6 (University of Cologne x2, University of Göttingen x1, University of Tübingen x1, University of Konstanz x1, FU Berlin x1)
• Principal investigator: Łukasz Jędrzejowski, University of Cologne, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of German Language and Literature I – German Didactics

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

–TBA.

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)
• Fatima Hamlaoui (University of Toronto)
• Jet Hoek (Radboud University Nijmegen)
• Hasmik Jivanyan (University of Geneva)
• Sylvain Loiseau (Sorbonne Paris North University)
• 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 & Caroline Heycock: On the internal and external syntax of adverbial clauses in Faroese: Causal and temporal clauses. Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 109: 1–25 [Link].
• 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].
• Caponigro, Ivano & Anamaria Fălăuş: ‘Why’ without asking in Romanian, in: Non-interrogative Subordinate Wh-clauses ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Carla Umbach, 410–437. Oxford: Oxford University Press [DOI].
• Corver, Norbert: Decomposing adverbs and complementizers. A case study of Dutch how ‘how’, in: Non-interrogative Subordinate Wh-clauses ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Carla Umbach, 158–206. Oxford: Oxford University Press [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].
• Georgieva, Ekaterina: On adverbial clauses in Udmurt: Postpositional phrases and the case of the adverbial case. Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 68(1): 5–42 [DOI].
• Guz, Wojciech & Łukasz Jędrzejowski: Polish że ‘that’ as an elaboration marker: Language-internal and cross-linguistic perspectives, in: Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective [Studies in Language Companion Series 227] ed. by Alessandra Barotto & Simone Mattiola, 167–199. Amsterdam: John Benjamins [DOI].
• Hinterhölzl, Roland: Perceptive evidential wie-clauses in German. A situation-based approach, in: Non-interrogative Subordinate Wh-clauses ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Carla Umbach, 207–238. Oxford: Oxford University Pres [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: Speech act adverbial clauses: The case of conditional jeśli-clauses in Polish. Zeitschrift für Slawistik 68(2): 279–303 [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].
• Jędrzejowski, Łukasz & Constanze Fleczoreck: Adverbial clauses and their variation. The case of causal clauses in German, in: Micro- and Macro-variation of Causal Clauses. Synchronic and Diachronic Insights [Studies in Language Companion Series 231] ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Constanze Fleczoreck, 15–48. Amsterdam: John Benjamins [DOI].
• Jędrzejowski, Łukasz & Carla Umbach: Non-interrogative Subordinate Wh-clauses [Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 83]. Oxford: Oxford University Press [DOI].
• Jędrzejowski, Łukasz & Carla Umbach: Varieties of non-interrogative subordinate wh-clauses, in: Non-interrogative Subordinate Wh-clauses ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Carla Umbach, 1–23. Oxford: Oxford University Press [DOI].
• Pankau, Andreas: Comparative relatives in German, in: Non-interrogative Subordinate Wh-clauses ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Carla Umbach, 275–327. Oxford: Oxford University Pres [DOI].
• Pittner, Karin & Werner Frey: German wie-comment and reporting clauses. A comparison with so-parentheticals, in: Non-interrogative Subordinate Wh-clauses ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Carla Umbach, 328–364. Oxford: Oxford University Pres [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].
• Šimík, Radek & Jakub Sláma: Czech evidential relatives introduced by jak ‘how’, in: Non-interrogative Subordinate Wh-clauses ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Carla Umbach, 239–273. Oxford: Oxford University Pres [DOI].
• Umbach, Carla, Stefab Hinterwimmer & Cornelia Ebert: Depictive manner complements, in: Non-interrogative Subordinate Wh-clauses ed. by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Carla Umbach, 124–157. Oxford: Oxford University Press [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

• 4th April 2024: pre-workshop on mood alternation in adverbial clauses organized by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Andreas Pankau , FU Berlin [Call for Papers] [Call for Papers 2] [schedule], invited speakers (confirmed):
  • Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago)
  • Josep Quer (Pompeu Fabra University)

  	April 4 (Thursday)
  09:15-09:30:	Welcome and opening remarks Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Andreas Pankau (FU Berlin)
  Chair:	Łukasz Jędrzejowski
  09:30-10:30:	The limits of argument-fulfilling adverbial clauses and mood marking Josep Quer (ICREA-Pompeu Fabra University) – invited speaker	[slides]
  10:30-11:00:	Refreshment break
  Chair:	Marco Coniglio
  11:00-12:00:	Mood alternation in concessive clauses of Portuguese Rui Marques (University of Lisbon)	[slides]
  12:00-13:00:	On the diachronic evolution of concessive clauses in French and Spanish Martin Becker (University of Cologne)	[slides]
  13:00-14:30:	Lunch break
  Chair:	Rui Marques
  14:30-15:30:	Mood swings in West Germanic adverbial clauses: A diachronic comparative analysis Marco Coniglio (University of Göttingen), Chiara De Bastiani (University of Venice), Roland Hinterhölzl (University of Venice) & Svetlana Petrova (University of Wuppertal)	[slides]
  15:30-16:30:	Mood alternations in simulative clauses: The (minor) role of subjunctive in the expression of irrealis Marta Massaia (Utrecht University)	[slides]
  16:30-17:00:	Refreshment break
  Chair:	Andreas Pankau
  17:00-18:00:	Mood choice in complement clauses: Evidence for flexible attitude meanings Anastasia Giannakidou (University of Chicago) – invited speaker	[slides]
  18:00-18:30:	Concluding remarks and future plans Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Andreas Pankau (FU Berlin)
  20:00-	Conference dinner Alter Krug Königin-Luise-Str. 52 14195 Berlin

  – 5th and 6th April 2024: fourth international conference on adverbial clauses organized by Łukasz Jędrzejowski & Andreas Pankau, FU Berlin [Call for Papers] [Call for Papers 2] [schedule], invited speakers (confirmed):

  • Keir Moulton (University of Toronto)
  • David Pesetsky (MIT)
  • Susanne Wurmbrand (University of Salzburg)

  Th main topic of the conference is on ‘Adverbial Clauses in Argument Positions’.

  	April 5 (Friday)
  09:45-10:00:	Welcome and opening remarks Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Andreas Pankau (FU Berlin)
  Chair:	Andreas Pankau
  10:00-11:00:	A syntactic approach to tense in complementation and beyond Susanne Wurmbrand (University of Salzburg) – invited speaker	[slides]
  11:00-11:30:	Refreshment break
  Chair:	Frank Sode
  11:30-12:30:	Adjunct = External Merge of XP right after the argument Andreas Blümel (University of Göttingen) & Nobu Goto (Toyo University)	[handout]
  12:30-14:30:	Lunch break
  Chair:	Andreas Blümel
  14:30-15:30:	Cycles and reanalysis in inherent and contact induced changes: Against a declarative analysis of depictive manner complements Julia Bacskai-Atkari (University of Amsterdam & University of Potsdam)	[slides] / [handout]
  15:30-16:30:	Depictive manner complements Carla Umbach (University of Cologne)	[slides]
  16:30-17:00:	Refreshment break
  17:00-18:00:	What is it possible to extract? Clausal prolepsis and the DP shell hypothesis Keir Moulton (University of Toronto) – invited speaker	[handout]
  19:30-	Conference dinner Luise Königin-Luise-Straße 40-42 14195 Berlin
  	April 6 (Saturday)
  Chair:	Łukasz Jędrzejowski
  10:00-11:00:	A double life for complement ‘if’-clauses revisited: Preliminary remarks for a 21st century version David Pesetsky (MIT) – invited speaker	[handout]
  11:00-11:30:	Refreshment break
  Chair:	Julia Bacskai-Atkari
  11:30-12:30:	What German embedded V2-clauses can tell us about ‘if’-clauses as arguments of preference predicates Frank Sode (HU Berlin)	[slides]
  12:30-12:45:	Concluding remarks and future plans Łukasz Jędrzejowski (University of Cologne) & Andreas Pankau (FU Berlin)
  13:00:	Lunch

• 4th October 2023: pre-workshop on adverbial clauses in creole and pidgin languages organized by Łukasz Jędrzejowski, University of Göttingen [schedule]

• 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] [schedule]

• 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)

[CfP1] [schedule]

• 20th-21st May 2022: first international conference on adverbial clauses between subordination and coordination [CfP1] [CfP2] [schedule] [poster]

17th December 2021: online kickoff workshop of the project [slides]