29.3081, Calls: Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Typology/China

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Subject: 29.3081, Calls: Disc Analysis, Gen Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Typology/China

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Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:50:00
From: Dámaso Izquierdo Alegría [dizquierdo at alumni.unav.es]
Subject: Evidentials Versus Non-evidentials: In Search for Identification Criteria of Markers of Evidentiality

 Full Title: Evidentials Versus Non-evidentials: In Search for Identification Criteria of Markers of Evidentiality 

Date: 09-Jun-2019 - 14-Jun-2019
Location: Hong Kong, China 
Contact Person: Dámaso Izquierdo Alegría
Meeting Email: dizquierdo at alumni.unav.es

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2018 

Meeting Description:

Evidentiality is a rapidly expanding field of research since Chafe & Nichols’
seminal volume (1986), and subsequent highly cited publications (Willett 1988;
Dendale & Tasmowski 2001; Aikhenvald 2004, i.a.).

Substantial progress has been made in the understanding of the NOTION of
evidentiality – defined as “the marking of the way the speaker had access to
the information in the utterance” – as opposed to its main neighbouring
notion, epistemic modality.

There is however one important theoretical and methodological issue that has
not received enough attention: the formulation of criteria, tests and a
procedure to identify MARKERS OF evidentiality, especially distinctive
criteria (against markers of epistemic modality and other notions). The
solution of this problem is crucial to systematically establish reliable
inventories of evidential markers in different languages (cf. Marín-Arrese’s
EUROEVIDMOD-project; Wiemer & Stathi 2010).

In this panel we will specifically focus on the “identification problem of
evidentials” and on how evidentials should be opposed to what can be called
“non-evidential markers”, i.e. (grammatical - lexical) items that somehow
express “how the information was acquired by the speaker” but should not be
included in an inventory of evidential markers. For instance:

- Conclusion markers like donc (FR), therefore, así que (ES): non-evidentials
or inferential evidentials?
- The conjectural future: a marker of inferential evidentiality?
- Adverbs certainly, vast (NL), certainement, peut-être (que) (FR);
supuestamente, presumiblemente (ES): are they modal markers, evidentials, or
both?
- Are the low certainty “modal” expressions pourrait (FR), might evidentials,
modals, or both?
- Are visiblement/visiblemente/visibly (FR/ES/EN) evidentials when they are
constituent adverbs?
- Is the opinion verb je trouve que (FR) (versus je crois que) a direct
evidential because it implies the speaker had direct experience of what he/she
is talking about?

Organizers:

Patrick Dendale (University of Antwerp, GaP, Belgium) & 
Dámaso Izquierdo Alegría (University of Navarra, GRADUN-ICS, Spain)


Call for Papers:

We welcome empirical, theoretical, epistemological contributions that clearly
address some of the following topics/questions:

- Criteria, tests and procedures to identify items as (grammatical-lexical)
evidentials or exclude them as “non-evidentials”;
- Can an expression belong both to the class of evidential markers and of that
of modal markers, rather than saying that it is an evidential with modal
overtones, features, stance… (or vice versa)?
- When is an item a “MARKER” of evidentiality (instead of simply an expression
“with an evidential function or feature”)?
- When is something an evidential extension/overtone/strategy (Aikhenvald
2004) or a feature?
- What is the influence of the type of notional definition of evidentiality or
the theoretical framework (e.g. formal semantics) on the identification of
evidentials (against modals)?
- What is the influence of the “level of expression” of the notional criterion
of evidentiality (lexical, sub-lexical, sentential, pragmatic (implicature,
illocutionary)) for its identification as evidential or not?
- Critical assessments of supposed or “recognized” evidential markers.
- Concrete analyses of items that clearly show problems regarding their
identification as evidentials/non-evidentials.

Please note that this is NOT a general panel on evidentiality and evidentials.
The focus of the contribution should fit in the above list of problems.

If you wish to contribute to our panel, please send your abstracts (min. 250,
max 500 words) by October 15, 2018 via the conference website: 
https://pragmatics.international/general/custom.asp?page=CfP



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