Vés enrere 13/05/2021 Seminari del GLiF, a càrrec de Frank Sode (Universitat de Frankfurt)

13/05/2021 Seminari del GLiF, a càrrec de Frank Sode (Universitat de Frankfurt)

"On the conditional nature of embedded V2-clauses in counterfactual wish reports of German" a càrrec de Frank Sode (Universitat de Frankfurt)
11.05.2021

 

 

Data: dijous 13 de maig del 2021

Hora: 12.00 h

Accés: en línia, amb Collaborate (enllaç: eu.bbcollab.com/guest/cbd918ec0de7403f94ba44b0a67b7a2d)

Resum:

This talk addresses embedded V2-clauses under “preference predicates” that typically are marked by subjunctive mood (“Konjunktiv II”), cf. Frank (1998); Meinunger (2007).

 

a. Ich  {wollte / wünschte},            ich wäre        schon   zu Hause.
    I.     {want.SUBJ / wisht.SUBJ} I     be.SUBJ already at  home
    ‘I wish I was already at home.’


b. Ich wäre        froh,   ich wäre        schon   zu Hause.
    I     be.SUBJ happy I     be.SUBJ already at  home
    ‘I would be glad if I was already at home.’
 
c. Es wäre       gut,   ich wäre        schon   zu Hause.
    it.  be.SUBJ good I     be.SUBJ already at  home
    ‘It would be good if I was already at home.’
 
These embedded V2-clauses don't really fit into the classical picture of the licensing conditions of embedded V2-clauses since predicates like “wollen” (‘want’), “gut” (‘good’) and “froh” (‘happy’) are not assertive and don’t license embedded root phenomena. I argue that, first, the embedding environments form a natural class from a syntactic and semantic point of view – not only in German but cross-linguistically – and that, second, this class of embedded V2-clauses are a grammaticalized form of “complement fulfilling conditionals” and therefore fall out of the scope of the classical picture of embedded V2-clauses in German.
 

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