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Languages display wide variation in how they express sentential (propositional) concepts, especially when those concepts are embedded in a larger clause. Other languages have even more variation in the grammar of subordination. The purpose of the investigation at hand, then, will be to:
survey the range of ways (i.e. clausal types) in which propositional concepts can be expressed intra- and cross-linguistically, looking at subordination (complements, modifiers, relative clauses, appositives, etc.) and at other “defective” clause types (imperatives, exclamatives, etc.);
examine the morphosyntax and semantics of properties traditionally associated with the broad notion “finiteness” (e.g. tense, aspect, subject-verb agreement, etc.); and
assess the relative adequacy of various theoretical approaches to the representation of finiteness and the structure of subordinate clauses.
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End of Semester Workshop
May 1, 2007
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