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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Call for
abstracts: Tense,
aspect and mood categories across languages</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Convenors: Kilu von Prince, Ana Krajinović,
Jozina Vander
Klok</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Abstract
submission
guidelines</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">We
are inviting contributions of short abstracts for the workshop </span><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Tense, aspect and mood
categories across
languages</i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman""> to be
proposed to the </span><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-style:italic" lang="EN-US">52<sup>nd</sup>
Annual
Meeting of</span><span
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lang="EN-US">
</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman"">Societas
Linguistica Europaea (SLE) 2019 to be held at Leipzig University
in Germany
from August 21-24, 2019. Interested participants should write a
provisional
abstract (max. 300 words) with their name and affiliation and
send to </span><a href="mailto:tamcalsle2019@gmail.com"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:blue">tamcalsle2019@gmail.com</span></a><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> by
November 9th, 2018. We
will then submit a provisional list of workshop participants
along with your
abstracts by Nov. 20th to SLE for consideration, and let you
know about the
outcome. More information about the conference can be found
here: <</span><a href="http://sle2019.eu/call-for-papers"
target="_blank"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";color:blue">http://sle2019.eu/call-for-papers</span></a><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Please
share and spread the word to others who might be interested! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Workshop
description</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is a proliferation of terms in the study
of tense,
aspect and modality (TAM). But it is not always clear what the
relation between
those terms is.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In some cases, several terms appear to refer to
phenomena
that are functionally very similar. This might be the case with
continuous and
progressive aspect, or irrealis, potential and hypothetical mood.
In other
cases, one category might be a special case of another category,
for example
habitual sentences are sometimes described as a special case of
generic
statements (Krifka et al. 1995) or, more generally, of
imperfective aspect
(Comrie 1976). We would like to bring together perspectives from
language documentation
and language-specific description, typology, formal and functional
approaches
to semantics and pragmatics, as well as syntax and morphology to
discuss
relations between TAM terms cross-linguistically.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We also welcome contributions that specifically
address
discrepancies between linguistic subdisciplines, or to state it
from another
perspective, how different linguistic frameworks might constrain
or create more
freedom in their approach to accounting for TAM semantic
properties.<span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman""> </span>For instance, typologists
often come to different conclusions from formal semanticists when
it comes to
the classification of TAM categories. Typologists tend to assume
that
cross-linguistic differences in the distribution of particular TAM
expressions
are based on their lexical semantic definition. By contrast, in
formal semantics
some of these differences can be derived from various
language-internal
structures and processes, such as paradigmatic effects.<span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Examples for this include:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* English simple past has a discontinuous
implicature in
connection with stative verbs as in "Rose is in the hospital. She
had
trouble breathing" -- such an utterance implicates that Rose is
now better
able to breathe. Altshuler & Schwarzschild (2012) argue that
this implicature
is a result of the contrast of English simple past and simple
present.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In some languages, such discontinuous
interpretations are
however not restricted to stative verbs. This has led Plungian
& van der
Auwera (2006) to diagnose a specific typological category of
"discontinuous
past". By contrast, Cable (2016) and von Prince (2017) have argued
that in
those languages, too, the discontinuous interpretation is a result
of the
paradigm in which the past markers find themselves, rather than a
function of
their lexical meaning.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* The category of "iamitive aspect" has been
introduced by Olsson (2013) and Dahl & Wälchli (2016) as
similar to, but
separate from, both perfect aspect and "already". One of its
defining
features is the change-of-state interpretation that iamitives show
in
connection with stative verbs, unlike Indo-European perfects. But
more recent
research argues that these interpretations may equally be
expressed by perfect
aspect (Krajinović 2018 for Nafsan) because of language-specific
processes
(also compare the analysis of "already" by Vander Klok &
Matthewson (2015) for Javanese). This poses a general question of
whether the
different functions of perfect attested cross-linguistically can
be explained
by language-specific effects, and how different would these
functions need to
be to justify establishing a new typological gram.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Languages that do not have obligatory tense
marking are
commonly categorized as tenseless. But Matthewson (2006) has
argued that<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>St’a´t’imcets
has a zero tense morpheme,
which restricts the temporal reference of a clause to non-future
tense. By contrast, Mucha (2012) argues for Hausa that it is
genuinely tenseless and that temporal reference is determined by
pragmatic
defaults.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* This divide between sub-disciplines is also
reflected in
how modal meanings are categorized. Thus, the distinction between
participant-internal
and participant-external modalities, which is fundamental to
typological
studies of modality (e.g. Bybee et al. 1994, van der Auwera &
Plungian
1998), is not reflected in the formal semantics discourse on
modality (e.g.
Portner 2009). </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Independent from<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>particular theoretical perspectives, there are many<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>cases in which the relation
between
categories it not entirely clear, for example: How does
iterativity relate to
pluractionality? What is the relation between sequentiality,
prospective aspect
and perfect aspect, frequentatives and habituals, progressive and
continuous
aspect? What is the relation between "timitive",
"avertive", "apprehensive" modality, also called
"volitive of fear" (Vuillermet 2018)?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How many modal distinctions such as "deontic"
and
"circumstantial" do languages mark grammatically? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We invite contributions from a variety of
backgrounds and
perspectives, including language documentation and description,
typology,
semantics and pragmatics, syntax, and morphology. We particularly
welcome
submissions on understudied or underdocumented languages.<span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span>Possible
topics for
submission include:<span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Descriptive case studies of a specific TAM
marker or
paradigm;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Typological studies of the distribution of
certain
categories;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Formal and functional approaches to specific
TAM
categories;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Formal and functional approaches to the
grammaticalization/diachrony of specific TAM categories;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Interdisciplinary studies that compare
different
approaches.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">References</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Altshuler, Daniel<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>and
Roger Schwarzschild. 2012. Moment of change, cessation
implicatures and
simultaneous readings. In Emmanuel Chemla, Vincent Homer, and Gr
́egoire
Winterstein, editors, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Proceedings
of Sinn
und Bedeutung</i> 17, Paris.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bybee, Joan L., Revere D. Perkins & William
Pagliuca.
1994. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Evolution of
Grammar: Tense,
aspect, and modality in the languages of the world.</i> Chicago:
University of
Chicago Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
New Roman";
color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dahl, Östen &
Bernhard
Wälchli. 2016. Perfects and iamitives: two gram types in one
grammatical space<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">. Letras
de Hoje</i> 51(3). 325–348.
doi:<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2016.3.25454">http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2016.3.25454</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">van der Auwera Johan and Vladimir A. Plungian.
1998. Modality’s
semantic map. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Linguistic
typology</i>,
2(1):79–124.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cable, Seth. 2016. The implicatures of optional
past tense
in Tlingit and the implications for ’discontinuous past’. <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Natural Language & Linguistic Theory</i>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Comrie, Bernard. 1976. <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Aspect</i>.
Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Krajinović, Ana. The semantics of perfect in
Nafsan. Paper
presented at The Semantics of African, Asian, and Austronesian
Languages
(Triple A) 5, 27–29 June 2018, Konstanz, 2018. https:
//semanticsofaaa2018.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/krajinovic_slides.pdf.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Krifka, Manfred, Francis J Pelletier, Gregory N
Carlson, Gennaro
Chierchia, Godehard Link, and Alice Ter Meulen. 1995. Introduction
to
genericity. In Gregory N Carlson and Francis J Pelletier, editors,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Generic Book</i>, pages
1–124. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Matthewson, Lisa. 2006. Temporal semantics in a
supposedly
tenseless language<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">.
Linguistics and
Philosophy</i>, 29:673–713.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mucha, Anne. 2012. Temporal reference in a
genuinely
tenseless language: the case of Hausa. <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Proceedings
of SALT</i>, 22:188–207.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Olsson, Bruno. 2013. Iamitives: <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Perfects in Southeast Asia and beyond.</i> Stockholm
University. MA
thesis.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Plungian, Vladimir A.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>and Johan van der Auwera. 2006. Towards a typology of
discontinuous past
marking. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Sprachtypologische
Universalienforschung</i>
59:317–349.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Portner, Paul. 2009. <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Modality</i>.
Oxford University Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vander Klok, Jozina and Lisa Matthewson.
Distinguishing
already from perfect aspect: A case study of javanese <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">wis</i>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Oceanic
Linguistics</i> 54(1):172–205,
2015.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">von Prince, Kilu. Paradigm-induced implicatures
in
TAM-expression: A view from the Daakaka distal. In <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung</i> 21, Edinburgh,
2017.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vuillermet, Marine. 2018. Grammatical fear
morphemes in Ese
Ejja: Making the case for a morphosemantic apprehensional domain.
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Studies in Language</i>
42(1), 2018.</p>
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