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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Slavic Linguistics Colloquium<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The first talk of the Slavic Linguistics Colloquium will take place next Wednesday, November 11 at 12:15.
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<p><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Radek Šimík & Jakub Sláma
</span></strong><span lang="EN-US">(Prague) will talk about the following topic: <strong>
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On evidential relative clauses: The case of Czech
</span></strong><em><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">jak</span></b></em><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">-relatives
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<p><span lang="EN-US">The zoom-link for this talk is the following: </span><a href="https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/64846185582?pwd=K1kyMGI5WVhjd1ZXNWFJbWc4T0U2Zz09"><span lang="EN-US">https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/64846185582?pwd=K1kyMGI5WVhjd1ZXNWFJbWc4T0U2Zz09</span></a><span lang="EN-US">
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<p><span lang="EN-US">You find an abstract for this talk below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-US">The full programme for the colloquium can be found here: </span>
<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/slavlingcoll/"><span lang="EN-US">https://sites.google.com/view/slavlingcoll/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN-US">Abstract</span></b><span lang="EN-US">: Czech has a range of strategies of forming headed relative clauses – relying either on the use of relative pronouns (<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">který, jaký, jenž</span></em>)
or on the use of a complementizer (<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">co, jak</span></em>) and an (optional) resumptive. In this talk, we focus on the least studied and understood species – the
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">jak-</span></em>relatives, e.g.
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Honil toho medvěda, jak furt utíkal na ten sever</span></em> ‘He chased the bear that kept running away to the north’. Building on and revising the somewhat isolated observation of Poldauf (1955), namely that
a nominal referent modified by <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">jak-</span></em>relatives needs to be sensorily or mnemonically “accesssible” to both the speaker and the hearer, we argue that a
<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">jak-</span></em>relative does not semantically intersect with its nominal head, but rather denotes an “identifying property” which helps identify a referent whose existence is presupposed. The property has
a hearer-oriented evidential component – the speaker assumes that the hearer has evidence (direct or indirect) that the property (<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">jak-</span></em>relative denotation) holds of the nominal referent (head of
the relative clause). We discuss the empirical consequences of the analysis and present relevant corpus evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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