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SUMMARY:Speculations on the syntax of adverbial clauses - Prof. Liliane Ha
 egeman (Université Charles de Gaulle\, Lille III/ STL - UMR 8163 CNRS)
DTSTART:20070518T090000Z
DTEND:20070518T110000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Theresa Biberauer
DESCRIPTION:*Speculations on the syntax of adverbial clauses*\n\nEnglish (
 'central') adverbial clauses are incompatible with argument fronting (1a) 
 (Haegeman 2006) and with markers of epistemic modality (1b) (Nilsen 2004)\
 , while initial adjuncts are allowed (1c). \n\n#1. When this book I find\,
  I will buy it. (bad)\n\n#2. I will come when it may be warmer. (bad)\n\n#
 3. When next week he's not here\, I'll call him. (okay) \n\nI will first r
 eview an earlier analysis (Haegeman 2003 etc.) of these data in which I re
 lated the absence of topicalisation in adverbial clauses directly to the a
 bsence of illocutionary force\, as encoded by a specialised functional hea
 d\, 'Force' (Rizzi 1997). I will show that this analysis poses a range of 
 theoretical and empirical problems. \n\nIn the presentation I will propose
  an alternative analysis according to which the absence of topicalisation 
 in adverbial clauses such as (1a) is accounted for by assuming that such c
 lauses are derived by movement of a (possibly null) operator to the left p
 eriphery. (For movement analyses of adverbial clauses cf. Geis 1975\, Lars
 on 1987\, 1990\, Dubinsky & Williams 1995\, Penner & Bader 1995\, Demirdac
 he & Etxebarria 2004\, Bhatt & Pancheva 2002\, 2006.) Some suggestive cros
 s linguistic and diachronic evidence will be provided in support of this a
 nalysis.\nA movement analysis of adverbial clauses allows us to account fo
 r the patterns displayed in (1) as well as for a number of other phenomena
  such as:\n\n(i) the fact that a specific set of adverbial clauses in Engl
 ish ('peripheral adverbial clauses') are compatible with topicalisation an
 d with markers of epistemic modality (Haegeman 2006)\;\n(ii) the fact that
  adverbial clauses are more easily compatible with clitic left dislocation
  in Romance\;\n(iii) the fact that among adverbial clauses in French a dis
 tinction is to be found between those that licence stylistic inversion of 
 the subject without requiring any additional trigger and those that requir
 e a specific trigger for stylistic inversion (Lahousse 2003\, 2005).\n\nTi
 me permitting I will speculate whether the movement analysis may also acco
 unt for the difference in the distribution of epistemic and evidential mod
 al markers in central and peripheral adverbial clauses.
LOCATION:G-R06\, English Faculty
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