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/
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.’
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.