eScApeS ─ Scope-based Approaches to Syntax: adjuncts, control, and small clauses
eScApeS ─ Scope-based Approaches to Syntax: adjuncts, control, and small clauses
Our research group is interested in scope-based approaches to syntax within Chomsky’s Minimalist Programme. Focusing primarily on (often corpus-based) data from German, Norwegian and English, we explore the interplay between syntax and semantics in non-finite adjunct clauses, or adjunct small clauses. This involves topics such as the syntactic (or non-syntactic) mechanisms behind control, possible correlations between adverbial interpretations, control relations and adjunction height and the internal structure of adverbial small clauses. We are also interested in syntactic topics such as Agree, adjunction, predication, binding, phase and island theory more generally.
Publications and presentations
In prep.
Brodahl, Kristin Klubbo, Silke Fischer & Inghild Flaate Høyem. Implicit adjunct control.
Brodahl, Kristin Klubbo, Silke Fischer & Inghild Flaate Høyem. Adjuncts in control theory: a scope-based approach. Submitted/under review.
2022
Brodahl, Kristin Klubbo. 2022. Being as big as small clauses get: The syntax of participial adjuncts in German and English. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
Fischer, Silke & Inghild Flaate Høyem. 2022. Adjunct Control. Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics.
2021
Fischer, Silke & Inghild Flaate Høyem. 2021. Event Control. In: Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective, Anne Mucha, Jutta Hartmann & Beata Trawiński (eds.), John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 197-222.
2020
Brodahl, Kristin Klubbo. 2020. Partizipialkonstruktionen im Deutschen: eine syntaktisch-semantische Typologie. Deutsche Sprache. vol. 48 (3), 249-279.
2019
Høyem, Inghild Flaate. 2019b. Ereigniskontrolle. Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 47 (3), 507-534.
Høyem, Inghild Flaate & Kristin Klubbo Brodahl. 2019. Über den Kontrollstatus deutscher Partizipialkonstruktionen mit dem Partizip 2 als Kern. Deutsche Sprache 2/19, 98-124.
2018
Brodahl, Kristin Klubbo. 2018. Zur Syntax und Semantik adverbialer Partizipialkonstruktionen mit dem Partizip 1 im Deutschen. Deutsche Sprache. vol. 46 (4).
Fischer, Silke. 2018. Locality, control, and non-adjoined islands. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3(1): 82. 1-40, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.182
Høyem, Inghild Flaate. 2018a. Adjunktkontrolle im Deutschen. Linguistische Berichte 255, 92-141.
2017
Pitteroff, Marcel, Artemis Alexiadou, Jeannique Darby & Silke Fischer. 2017. On Partial Control in German. Journal of Comparative Germanic Lingustics 20.2: 139-185. doi:10.1007/s10828-017-9088-y.
Pitteroff, Marcel, Artemis Alexiadou & Silke Fischer. 2017. Two Mechanisms to Derive Partial Control - Evidence from German. In: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 23.1: 201-210.
Selected recent presentations
2022
Brodahl, Kristin Klubbo. “Syntactic and semantic flexibility among adverbials: evidence from underspecified adjuncts”, poster presentation at Adverbs and adverbials at the form-meaning interface (AAFMI 2022), University of Göttingen, May 18 - 20.
Brodahl, Kristin Klubbo, Silke Fischer & Inghild Flaate Høyem. “Participial adjunct control: a scope-based approach”, Research colloquium of the Department of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, May 10 (presented by Silke Fischer and Inghild Flaate Høyem).
2021
Brodahl, Kristin Klubbo, Silke Fischer & Inghild Flaate Høyem. “Participial adjunct control: a scope-based approach”, Research colloquium Skogselskapet/The ForEST Society at the Department of Language and Literature, NTNU, November 2 (presented by Kristin Klubbo Brodahl).
Brodahl, Kristin Klubbo. “Studying structural variation cross-linguistically: Participial adjuncts in German and English”, 5th Norwegian Graduate Student Conference in Linguistics and Philology (NoSLiP), University of Bergen; Bergen/Online, November 3 - 4.
2020
Brodahl, Kristin Klubbo. “Korpusdaten und Akzeptabilitätsurteile als empirische Grundlage einer kontrastiven Untersuchung von Partizipialkonstruktionen“, 16. STaPs (Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende), University of Vienna; Vienna/Online. September, 25 - 26.
2019
Fischer, Silke & Inghild Flaate Høyem. “Event control”, IGRA lecture series, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig, July 2019 (presented by Silke Fischer).
Fischer, Silke & Inghild Flaate Høyem. “Event control”, 41. Jahrestagung of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) in the section ‘Cross-linguistic variation control phenomena’, University of Bremen, March 6 - 8, 2019.
Fischer, Silke & Inghild Flaate Høyem. “Event control”, Research colloquium of the Department of Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, February 5, 2019.
2018
Fischer, Silke. “Non-Obligatory Control and the Role of Perspectivization”, Workshop "Logophoricity and Perspectivization in Wackershofen", University of Stuttgart, October 2018.
2017
Eide, Kristin Melum & Inghild Flaate Høyem. “German vs. Norwegian small clauses headed by als/som”, Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 32 (CGSW 32), NTNU Trondheim, September 15, 2017.
Fischer, Silke & Inghild Flaate Høyem. “Adjunct control”, Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 32 (CGSW 32) NTNU Trondheim, September 14, 2017.
