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<DIV>[Apologies for cross-posting] </DIV>
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<DIV>DEADLINE EXTENSION: to MARCH 31, 2012</DIV>
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<DIV>Final Call for Papers</DIV>
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<DIV>The Nature of Evidentiality (TNE2012), Leiden, The Netherlands, 14-16 JUNE 2012</DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://hum.leiden.edu/lucl/tne-2012">http://hum.leiden.edu/lucl/tne-2012</A></DIV>
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<DIV>MEETING DESCRIPTION:</DIV>
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<DIV>The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers working on various language families and from various subdisciplines of linguistics to discuss the linguistic nature of evidentiality. We welcome any descriptive, theoretical, comparative or historical perspective, as long as one or more of the following topics is addressed:</DIV>
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<DIV>Theory: the nature of the network of relationships between evidential categories, and the descriptors that are needed to accurately map these relationships.</DIV>
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<DIV>Description: fresh data or novel analyses that throw a new light on theoretical and typological assumptions about evidentiality.</DIV>
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<DIV>Criteria: rigorous syntactic, morphological, and semantic tests for describing the differences between evidential categories.</DIV>
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<DIV>Evidential systems: the nature of the interaction of various evidential markers within a given evidential system.</DIV>
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<DIV>Beyond evidentiality: the relationships of evidentials with other linguistic categories such as tense, aspect, and modality. </DIV>
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<DIV>INVITED SPEAKERS:</DIV>
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<DIV>Rose-Marie Déchaine (UBC)<BR>Ferdinand de Haan (Oracle)<BR>Daniel J. Hintz (SIL)<BR>Matthias Schenner (ZAS Berlin)<BR>Peggy Speas (UMass, Amherst)</DIV>
<DIV><BR>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS:</DIV>
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<DIV>We are accepting abstracts on any of the topics above only through the EasyChair abstract submission system, which can be found at:</DIV>
<DIV><A href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tne2012">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tne2012</A></DIV>
<DIV>Abstracts should not exceed two pages, including data and references, and have at least 11-point font on either A4 or letter paper with one-inch (2.5cm) margins. Abstracts must be anonymous and submissions are limited to 2 per author, at least one of which is co-authored. </DIV>
<DIV>Selected talks will be 30 minutes long: 20 min. for presentation and 10 min. for discussion. </DIV>
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<DIV>IMPORTANT DATES:</DIV>
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<DIV>Submission deadline: March 15, 2012 *EXTENDED TO MARCH 31, 2012*<BR>Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2012<BR>Registration deadline: May 15, 2012<BR>Conference: June 14 to June 16, 2012</DIV>
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<DIV>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:</DIV>
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<DIV>Johan Rooryck (LUCL)<BR>Tyler Peterson (LUCL)<BR>Monica Lau (LUCL)<BR>Willem Adelaar (LUCL) </DIV>
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<DIV>CONTACT INFORMATION:</DIV>
<DIV><BR><A href="mailto:evidentiality@gmail.com">evidentiality@gmail.com</A></DIV>
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<DIV>In addition to the main conference, we are also hosting a one-day workshop on June 13 dedicated to semantic fieldwork and evidentials. In the past 25 years research on evidentiality has greatly expanded its cross-linguistic scope, and we now have many fine-grained descriptions of evidentials in individual languages. This research has led to the development of many empirical, experimental, and theoretical tools for documenting evidentiality. These advances have also revealed the challenges in adequately describing evidentials. As such, the purpose of this workshop is to bring field researchers together who work on evidentiality, and to provide a forum for exchanging methodologies and experiences in probing evidential meaning. If you are interested in making a short presentation at the workshop, please include a one-paragraph abstract along with your main conference abstract. There are a
limited number of presentation slots, but we hope to accommodate as many people as possible.</DIV></td></tr></table>