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Conference-Review: Project A01 organised Workshop on “Cross-clausal Dependencies”
The workshop “Cross-clausal Dependencies (CCD)” aimed to shed light on questions regarding the syntactic configuration of clauses involving long-distance dependencies, the properties of domains involved in long- distance dependencies, as well as the role of pragmatic and semantic context for the acceptability of long-distance dependencies. During the three-day workshop, 14 presentations addressed these questions and provided insights based on different phenomena, theoretical backgrounds, and languages.
The workshop contained three keynote presentations. Krisztina Valeria Szécsényi (University of Deusto) discussed „Long-distance agreement in Basque and Hungarian“. Lutz Gunkel (IDS Mannheim) presented collaborative work on German prepositional object clauses together with Jutta M. Hartmann (see below). Renuka Ozarkar (University of Mumbai), a former visiting scholar of the CRC (see for her report), investigated interactions of „Clausality and long distance agreement in Marathi“ and Stefan Keine (UCLA) presented an analysis on long-distance dependencies as „Collateral movement“.
Prior to the workshop, members of A01 presented the project and current work. András Bárány and Jutta M. Hartmann introduced the project in their talk „The Role of Analogy in Generative Grammar“. In his talk „Reanalysis by Analogy: Extraction from German wenn-clauses“, Fabian Zöfelt discussed experimental data and an analysis on long-distance dependencies into complement- like wenn ‘when’-clauses in German. Szilvia Daczó presented (new) data on the controversial topic of long-distance agreement with intransitives in Hungarian. Her talk was entitled „Annual review on long-distance object-verb agreement with intransitive matrix verbs in Hungarian“. Jutta M. Hartmann and Lutz Gunkel discussed potential reanalyses of prepositional object clauses without an overtly realized preposition in their contribution „Extraction from prepositional object clauses: cross-linguistic, empirical and theoretical insights“. Anke Himmelreich spoke about a theoretical puzzle in Mabia languages in her talk „When long-distance dependencies are actually short: The case of Mabia languages“.
Submitted papers were presented by Klaus Abels (University College London), Dawhah Alruayni (University of York), Daniel Aremu (Goethe University, Frankfurt), Shin-Sook Kim (University of York) & Gereon Müller (Leipzig University), Irina Stoica (University of Bucharest), and Qiuhao Charles Yan (Queen Mary University of London).
The workshop was very helpful for us because it gave us a broader overview of current empirical and theoretical research dealing with the phenomena of long-distance dependencies and cross-clausal relations, which are relevant to our work. The CCD also helped us advance our own research, above all by providing us with helpful comments and insights from colleagues who are working on similar phenomena or have expertise in the theory. We would like to mention in particular our invited speakers, Krisztina Szécsényi and Stefan Keine, but also Gereon Müller, who recently referred to our work in his lecture at the Linguistics Colloquium in Bielefeld.
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