29.3410, Calls: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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Subject: 29.3410, Calls: Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:14:05
From: Natasha Korotkova [n.korotkova at ucla.edu]
Subject: Expressing Evidence

 
Full Title: Expressing Evidence 

Date: 06-Jun-2019 - 08-Jun-2019
Location: Konstanz, Germany 
Contact Person: Natasha Korotkova
Meeting Email: expressing-evidence at uni-konstanz.de
Web Site: http://semantics.uni-konstanz.de/workshops/evidence-2019/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics 

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2018 

Meeting Description:

Evidential restrictions cross-cut grammars in varied ways. Traditionally,
evidentiality has been understood as a linguistic category that encodes the
information source for an utterance (Aikhenvald 2004). A lot of current
research within formal semantics and pragmatics follows the typological suit
and focuses on evidential paradigms in e.g. Cuzco Quechua (Faller 2002),
Lillouet Salish (Matthewson et al. 2007) and Cheyenne (Murray 2010). However,
despite their paradigmatic status, not all evidentials even in those languages
function identically from a semantic standpoint (AnderBois 2014, Korotkova
2017). Furthermore, there are evidentials that do not form a dedicated
morphosyntactic category, such as Tagalog daw (Schwager 2010) and German wohl
(Zimmerman 2004, Eckardt and Beltrama forth.), or evidentials that are part of
another category, such as the tense and aspect system in Bulgarian (Izvorski
1997; Koev 2016). Finally, many constructions that are not strictly speaking
evidentials have been argued to have an evidential flavor: from epistemic
modals (von Fintel and Gillies 2010) over hedges (Simons 2007, McCready 2015),
copy-raising constructions (Asudeh and Toivonen 2012) and quotational
indefinites (Sudo 2008, Cieschinger and Ebert 2011, Koev 2016) to predicates
of personal taste (Anand and Korotkova 2018).

In this workshop, we want to bring together researchers working from different
angles on how natural language expresses evidence. We are especially
interested in (but not limited to) submissions that straddle the divide
between linguistics and philosophy and address the following issues:

1. Evidentiality across syntactic categories
2. Speech acts conveyed by evidentials
3. Evidentiality in a broader context of attitude ascriptions and subjective
expressions
4. Types of reasoning and knowledge involved in statements with different
evidentials
5. Formal tools for modelling evidence

Invited speakers:

Corien Bary (Nijmegen)
Lisa Matthewson (British Columbia)
Elin McCready (Aoyama)
Dilip Ninan (Tufts)


Call for Papers:

We invite submission of abstracts for 30-minute oral presentations (with
additional time for discussion) on any topic related to the aims and scope of
the workshop. We are especially interested in (but not limited to)
contributions that straddle the line between disciplines dealing with the
linguistic expression of evidence, such as linguistics, philosophy, and
psychology.

Abstracts must be in PDF format, with 1 inch / 2.5 cm margins, in a 12pt font
(normal interline spacing). The text of the abstract, including all examples,
figures and tables must be no longer than three pages. A fourth page may
contain cited references.

Please note that the limitation to three (rather than two) pages is especially
intended to aid authors of abstract that need extra space for data (especially
glossed examples). If you don’t need this accommodation, feel free to submit a
“normal” abstract that only uses two pages for content, plus one page for
references.

All abstracts must be submitted at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ee19




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