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be held in Zhuhai/online on 8-10 November, 2024. The purpose of the workshop is to enhance research on phasal polarity focusing on the lesser studied aspects of this onomasiolocal domain, see more detailed description below. If you are interested in participating
in the workshop, please send your name and affiliation to </span><a href="mailto:ljuba@ling.su.se" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent">ljuba@ling.su.se</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">
and </span><a href="mailto:anastasia.b.panova@gmail.com" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent">anastasia.b.panova@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">The onomasiological domain of phasal polarity (PhP), i.e. a system of concepts ALREADY, STILL, NOT YET and NO LONGER, first came to the attention of typologists in the
late 1990s (van der Auwera 1998; van Baar 1997). After a gap of about 20 years, we now observe a renewed interest in this topic. Recent works have studied phasal polarity systems or their sub-parts in a broad typological perspective (e.g. Dahl & Wälchli 2016
on ALREADY), in an areal context (e.g. Kramer (ed.) 2021 on PhP in African languages), in particular language groups or families (e.g. Veselinova & Devos 2021 on NOT YET in Bantu, Veselinova et al. Forth. on PhP in Malayo-Polynesian), not to mention papers
describing PhP expressions in individual languages (e.g. Zahran & Ström 2022, Fischer et al. 2023). Situated at the intersection of polarity, aspect and, in many instances, other functional domains (see below), studying phasal polarity from a cross-linguistic
perspective allows many insights into how human language construes meaning and how different semantic domains relate to each other diachronically.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">Probably the biggest gap in the literature on PhP is the typology of NO LONGER expressions. Although studies describing PhP systems include information on the encoding
of NO LONGER, no systematic investigation of the diversity of NO LONGER expressions, comparable to studies of ALREADY (Dahl & Wälchli 2016), NOT YET (Veselinova 2015, 2017) and STILL (Panova Forth.; Persohn Forth. [a]), has been conducted so far. Additionally,
since NO LONGER expressions are often based on expressions denoting AGAIN (van Baar 1997), it is important to consider the discussion of the same phenomenon in the literature on AGAIN expressions (Stoynova 2013: 221-223), which is often overlooked in works
focusing on the internal structure of PhP systems (such as Kramer 2018). </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">Speaking of relationships between PhP expressions, it has been shown that in some contexts, e.g. with less-than-finite predicates or in the absence of an overt predicate,
STILL expressions can mean NOT YET without negation marking (Veselinova & Devos 2021; Veselinova et al. Forthcoming; Persohn Forth. [b]). Another interesting context is combinations with temporal phrases where STILL and ALREADY expressions can acquire similar,
although not identical meanings ‘even at a time as far removed as’ and ‘even at a time as early as’ respectively (e.g. Boguslavsky 1996, Persohn forth. [a]), cf. the Russian sentence
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic">Èta problema suščestvovala
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:italic">eščё</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">[STILL]</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic">/</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:italic">uže</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">[ALREADY]
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:italic">dva goda nazad</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent"> ‘This problem
existed </span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700">at a time as far removed as/as early as two years ago</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">’.
These examples suggest that PhP expressions in general may exhibit peculiar behavior when modifying elements other than finite verbal predicates. Besides, diachronic data from Slavic languages highlight the fact that one and the same lexical item can be polysemous
with the senses STILL and ALREADY for extended periods of time. Further research is needed to explore how the syntactic and actional properties of the head constituent impact the semantics of PhP expressions. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">As regards the co-lexification of PhP and non-PhP meanings, it has not only become a subject of research (cf. Mazzitelli 2022 on non-phasal functions of ALREADY expressions
in Austronesian, Veselinova et al. Forth., Persohn Forth. [a] on the multifunctionality of STILL expressions), but has also led to theoretical discussions on the interpretation of expressions that share several functions. For example, Olsson (2013) and Krajinović
et al. (2023) present different views on whether a special 'iamitive' category should be postulated for expressions combining the meanings of ALREADY and (English) perfect. Furthermore, multifunctional STILL expressions are sometimes referred to as not 'true'
or not 'dedicated', but there seem to be no commonly accepted criteria determining what exactly a 'true' or 'dedicated' PhP expression is supposed to be (cf. the use of these terms in Guérois 2021, Kießling 2021 and Mitchell 2021).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">In terms of areal coverage, the existing literature on PhP is strongly biased towards the languages of Europe, Africa and Papunesia, while, for example, PhP systems in
the languages of the Americas seem to be described rather poorly, especially from a typological perspective. In addition, cross-linguistic studies of the entire PhP domain require a more balanced and representative expansion of the current empirical database.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">The aim of this workshop is to bring together work on understudied aspects of PhP such as, but not limited to, those described above. We particularly welcome abstracts
that consider PhP expressions in lesser-studied languages and from the indigenous languages of the American continents.</span></p>
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