Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

New Insights into the Syntax and Semantics of Complementation

Organizer(s) Łukasz Jędrzejowski, Mathias Schenner & Kerstin Schwabe
Workshop 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, U Oslo
Start of event 03.08.2013, 09.00 o'clock
End of event 03.08.2013, 18.00 o'clock
Venue Oslo
Workshop program & abstracts

The purpose of the workshop is to examine the diachronic origin and change of com- plementation structures within a language as well as across languages. In general, we would like to discuss how the emergence and change of different clause types/forms result in different clause-embedding predicate classes. Additionally, we would also like to pay closer attention to how semantic change of clause-embedding predicates may give rise to or prohibit (new) embedded complement types.