Temporal adjunct clauses introduced by when are often used as examples of how long-distance dependencies create just the same kind of ambiguities in different domains. Specifically, when-clauses show the same kinds of ambiguities as are also found in wh-questions with embedded clauses, as in When did you say that she was planning to arrive? and I had already left when you said that she was planning to arrive. In this talk, though, I will present collaborative work with Rob Truswell and Elise Newman where we discuss cases where this type of ambiguity is surprisingly absent and argue that in these cases the adjunct clauses have both a different kind of interpretation and a different syntax.

Everyone is welcome.

The event is financed by Anne Mette Nyvad's Sapere Aude project.