Evidentiality and modality
At the crossroads of grammar and lexicon
Published on Thursday, June 03, 2021
Abstract
The international conference ‘Evidentiality and modality : At the crossroads of grammar and lexicon’ will be held online June 10-11th 2021.
Announcement
Registration
The international conference ‘Evidentiality and modality : At the crossroads of grammar and lexicon’ will be held online June 10-11th 2021.
If you are interested in attending the event (free of charge), you are welcome to fill in the registration form on our website.
https://evidentialite.sciencesconf.org/
Keynote speakers
- Bernd Heine (Köln University)
- Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp)
- Nicolas Tournadre (Université Aix-Marseille, Lacito, IUF)
Programme
10 June 2021
- 8:30-9:00 Opening (Sandrine Sorlin)
- 9:00-10:00 Alexandra Aikhenvald, The Web of knowledge
Room 1: Grammaticalization 1
(convenor: F. Rose)
- 10h-10h30 Rhee, S., Seeing and thinking in inferential evidentiality: The Case in Korean
- 10h30-11h BREAK
- 11:00-11:30 Wiemer, B., Polish jakoby: How to make it the whole way from comparison to reportivity
Room 2: Corpus and experimentation
(convenor: P. Leclercq)
- 10h-10h30 Smirnova, A., Evidentiality in abductive reasoning: Experimental approach
- 10h30-11h BREAK
- 11:00-11:30 Arslan, S., Selvi Balo, S., Mavis, I. & Meunier, F., Event witnessability and evidentiality: A preliminary study on healthy aging Turkish adults
Room 3: Discourse
(convenor: A. Méry)
- 10h-10h30 Arthuis Blanco, M. E., The grammaticalization of quotatives in evidentiality: Exploring the pragmatic link between illocutionary force modulation and quotative readings of hearsay evidentials
- 10h30-11h BREAK
- 11:00-11:30 Míguez, V., Epistemic modality and discourse strategy: A corpus-based study of Galician adverbs
11:30-12:30 POSTER SESSION
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
- 13:30-14:30 Bernd Heine, The grammar of interactives: The challenge of discourse
R1: Typology and language documentation 1
(convenor: N. Tournadre)
- 14:45-15:15 Lessan Pezhechki, H., Le paradigme évidentiel du persan: un nouvel angle d’analyse
- 15:15-15:45 Oisel, G., Les évidentiels de la langue Shipibo- Konibo : sémantique,morphosyntaxe et pragmatique
- 15 :45-16:15 BREAK
- 16:15-16:45 Nowakowska, M., La construction polonaise « mieć (avoir) + infinitif » : valeur médiative, modale et aspectuelle
- 16 :45-17:15 Izquierdo Alegría, D. & Treikelder, A., À la croisée de l'évidentialité indirecte, l'engagement et le désengagement : analyse du marqueur espagnol "por lo visto" face à ses équivalents en français et en estonien dans un corpus parallèle
R2: Romance languages
(convenor: E. Corre)
- 14:45-15:15 Dendale, P., Can modal adverbs be genuine evidentials? The case of French adverb certainement
- 15:15-15:45 Sentí, A., Evidentiality in spoken Catalan: the reportative marker diu que
- 16:15-16:45 Lo Baido, M. C., Disentangling epistemic modality from evidentiality in spoken discourse: a focus on the comment clause in Present-day Italian
- 16 :45-17:15 Bres, J., Description d'un emploi de devoir comme marqueur évidentiel d'information rapportée en français
R3: Grammaticalization 2
(convenor: A. Edmonds)
- 14:45-15:15 Ziegeler, D., On the grammaticalization of an attributive in English: The case of according to NP
- 15:15-15:45 Lara Bermejo, V., The development of evidential grammatical markers in Ibero-Romance
- 16:15-16:45 Caudal, P. & Mailhammer, R. Tensed periphrastic vs. synthetic modal inflections in Iwaidja – a novel insight into grammaticalization cycles for modality in Northern Australia?
- 16 :45-17:15 Tarpomanova, E. & Mihaylova, B., Evidentiality in Bulgarian: What I (don't) know or what I (don't) trust
11 June 2021
- 9:00-10:00 Nicolas Tournadre, The status of egophoric markers within the Tibetic evidential-epistemic systems
Room 1: Theory and evidential categories
(convenor: E. Corre)
- 10:00-10:30 Mélac, E., The grammaticalization of evidentiality: What do we know so far?
- 10:30-11:00 BREAK
- 11:00-11:30 Mortelmans, T., The “exceptionality” of reportative evidentiality Revisited
- 11:30-12:00 Bergqvist, H. & Grzech K., What's theoretical about evidentiality?
Room 2: Egophoricity and evidentiality 1
(convenor: A. Méry)
- 10:00-10:30 Miyashita, H., Evidentiality and egophoricity in Japanese: A typological perspective and a model for evidentiality
- 10:30-11:00 BREAK
- 11:00-11:30 Suzuki, H., Sensory access in the evidential system of Choswateng Tibetan (rGyalthang, Yunnan)
- 11:30-12:00 Vokurkova, Z., Lexical and Grammatical expression of evidential meanings demonstrated on the example of Czech and TibetanBergqvist, H. & Grzech K., What's theoretical about evidentiality?
12:00-12:45 POSTER SESSION
12:45-13:30 LUNCH
- 13:30-14:30 Jan Nuyts, On the relations between modality and evidentiality
R1: Evidentiality and its interaction with other grammatical categories
(convenor: P. Dendale)
- 14:45-15:15 Verhees, S., Perfects, evidentiality and narrative in the eastern Caucasus
- 15:15-15:45 Bundschuch, J., From Perfect Auxiliary to Epistemic Modal Sentence-final Particle: A History of Japanese -kke
- 15:45-16:15 BREAK
- 16:15-16:45 Gruzdeva, E., Evidentiality in Nivkh: a "hidden" semantic category
R2: Typology and language documentation 2
(convenor: P. Caudal)
- 14:45-15:15 Sakhatova, G., Evidentiality in Turkmen
- 15:15-15:45 Khan, G., The perfect and evidentiality in Neo-Arameic dialects
- 15:45-16:15 BREAK
- 16:15-16:45 Rose, F., Epistemicity in Mojeño demonstratives
R3: Egophoricity and evidentiality 2
(convenor: N. Tournadre)
- 14:45-15:15 Watters, S., Egophoricity in Dzongkha: Speaker representation of knowledge and interlocutor accessibility
- 15:15-15:45 Hyslop, G., Lexical source of Kurtöp evidential, mirative, and egophoric markers
- 15:45-16:15 BREAK
- 16:15-16:45 Simon, C., Egophoricity: Between involvement and claim of epistemic authority
16:45-17:15 Final discussion
Posters
- Bogáta, T., Lexical markers of inferentiality, epistemic modality and evidentiality in Meadow Mari Kalnaca, A. & Lokmane, I., Evidentiality and reported imperative in Latvian
- Huber, C., Evidentiality and modality in Shumcho/Humcho
- Kittilä, S, The unspecified external evidence particle vissiin of Finnish
- Kaiser, E., Expressing doubt in the evidence, or expressing pretense? The Finnish dubitative particle muka Müller, K., Evidence vs evident
- Simeonova, V., Evidentiality in embedded clauses
- Szábo, D., Evidentiality in Udmurt. Results of a linguistic fieldwork
- Tosun, S., Source vs stance: interpreting evidentials and modal expressions in Turkish and English
- Tokac, S., Arslan, S., Nickels, L., Auditory Processing Differences of Bilingual Speakers: Heritage Language vs Emigrant Speakers
- Tsiouris, M., Elfdalian modals: a semantic study on a non-standard variety
- Wang, S., L'évidentialité en bake
- Zhou, S., Confirmation/agreement Seeking Marker in the perspective of Epistemic Gradients: with special reference to the interrogative particle “HAO”(嚎)in northeastern Mandarin Chinese
Organizing Committee
- Eric Mélac (Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3, EMMA)
- Pascale Leclercq (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, EMMA)
- Jacques Brès (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, Praxiling)
- Eric Corre (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Prismes)
- Nicolas Tournadre (Université d'Aix-Marseille, Lacito et IUF)
Subjects
- Language (Main category)
- Mind and language > Language > Linguistics
Date(s)
- Thursday, June 10, 2021
- Friday, June 11, 2021
Keywords
- evidentiality, modality, grammaticalization
Contact(s)
- Eric Mélac
courriel : eric [dot] melac [at] univ-montp3 [dot] fr
Reference Urls
Information source
- Eric Mélac
courriel : eric [dot] melac [at] univ-montp3 [dot] fr
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To cite this announcement
« Evidentiality and modality », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on Thursday, June 03, 2021, https://doi.org/10.58079/16qa