Katja Hetterle - Adverbial Clauses in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Katja Hetterle

Adverbial Clauses in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs

Editor

Volker Gast

Editorial Board
Walter Bisang
Jan Terje Faarlund
Hans Henrich Hock
Natalia Levshina
Heiko Narrog
Matthias Schlesewsky
Amir Zeldes
Niina Ning Zhang

Editor Responsible for this volume
Volker Gast

Volume 289

ISBN 978-3-11-034260-4
e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-040985-7
e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-040996-3
ISSN 1861-4302

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To Marcus

This book is a slightly revised version of my PhD thesis, submitted to the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in 2012. It could not have been written without the constant support and encouragement of many people.

First of all, I would like to thank my thesis supervisor Holger Diessel. I had a crush on languages ever since I started to learn English, but it was Holger who, when we first met in a typology class in 2004, awakened in me the great enthusiasm to not just learn languages, but to study them scientifically, and I have been in love with language ever since. Holger accompanied me through the years, and although he constantly encouraged me to independently work my way through the linguistic jungle, he was always there to provide support, professional advice, and a great deal of encouragement. I am very grateful for having been able to be a PhD student under Holgers wings! I am also grateful to my second supervisor Volker Gast who functioned as an ad-hoc advisor on a variety of specific issues. Special thanks goes to Volker for his very generous and extremely valuable assistance and communication in the editing process of the book.

I am grateful to all the linguists with whom I discussed, at various stages in the writing process, questions via email or in person around the world: Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Suzanne Wash, Anna Martowicz, Asuka Matsumoto, Linda Konnerth, Ayten Babaliyeva, Misa Moroi, and Kyoto Maezono.

Thanks also to the people from the Institut fr Anglistik/Amerikanistik at FSU Jena for providing a great intellectual environment for developing the dissertation. In particular, I thank Karsten Schmidtke-Bode, who has been great company since the beginning of my academic career. Karsten and I spent countless days discussing subordinate clauses in the languages of the world, and I am enormously grateful for his ever-open ears and professional advice, for his comments and suggestions, and for the last-minute proof-readings of parts of the dissertation, all of which have been invaluable to me. Special thanks also goes to Martin Schfer for his patient and witty proof-reading of one of the longer chapters, as well as a number of experts in statistics with whom I discussed various statistical challenges: Daniel Wiechmann, Jens Schumacher, Wolfhard Kaus, and Gerald Lackner. Organizational support was provided by Simone Bahlmann-Schulze, and Julia McMillan and Erica Haas helped me with the intricacies of the English language.

I would also like to thank Julie Miess and Nancy Christ from De Gruyter for their patient assistance and help.

Furthermore, I would like to thank the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes for financial and moral support. Specifically, I am indebted to Dr. Pascal Pilgram and Dr. Peter Antes for leading me through the organizational labyrinth and to my liaison professor Prof. Dr. James Beck for accompanying me all this time.

Research prior to the dissertation project was carried out on the typology of causal clauses at the University of California at Berkeley. I am thankful to the University of Jena for the grant that allowed me to undertake a one-year program as a visiting student researcher and to the lecturers of Dwinelle Hall and beyond, who took part in shaping this young linguists ideas about the nature of language: George Lakoff, Johanna Nichols, Lynn Nichols, Sharon Inkelas, Andrew Garrett, and many others. Thanks also to Beln Flores for making my stay organizationally possible to begin with and for welcoming me so kindly and warm-heartedly.

My greatest gratitude, however, is for my husband: Marcus, without you at my side, I could never have completed this enormous project! Thanks to my kids Moritz and Matheo for being just the way they are, and to my parents and parents-in-law, who I could always count on in difficult times. And finally, to Susi: Susi, once again, I have no words

The following abbreviations are used in the interlinear glosses of the examples. They are standardized based of the Leipzig Glossing Rules (Comrie et al. 2008). Slight modifications to the notational conventions were undertaken in some cases to suit the particular needs of this study. The degree of detail chosen is dependent on the conventions in the source.