Workshop: Beyond the clause (2022)

On Friday 24th June 2022, the research group hosted a hybrid workshop representing the four work packages led by the doctoral candidates (W1, W2, W4, and W5). In total, eight presentations were given at this workshop: for each work package, one presentation was given by the doctoral candidate, and one was given from an invited guest speaker. The full schedule is reproduced below.

[book of abstracts]

[WP5]

  • Charlotte Bourgoin (KU Leuven / Cardiff U). The grammaticalisation of information structure: The case of cohesive clefts.

  • Andreas Dufter (LMU Munich). The cline of biclausal and monoclausal syntax and semantics in Spanish cleft(-like) structures.

[WP2]

  • Virginia Calabria (KU Leuven / Uni Neuchâtel). Collaborative grammar: The temporality and emergence of clause combination in Italian talk-in-interaction.

  • Jan Lindström (U Helsinki). Clause combining in turn-transitional space: Intersections between grammar and embodied action.

[WP1]

  • Ellison Luk (KU Leuven). Multifunctional converbs in Australian languages: A typological study.

  • Jesús Olguín Martínez (U California, Santa Barbara). Expletive negation in ‘before’ clauses: A typological study.

[WP4]

  • Giulia Mazzola (KU Leuven). Syndetic and asyndetic complementation in the history of Spanish.

  • Rena Torres Cacoullos (Penn State). Spanish-English clause combining: choosing the language of the conjunction.