29.3737, Confs: General Linguistics, Language Documentation, Pragmatics, Semantics, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 29.3737, Confs: General Linguistics, Language Documentation, Pragmatics, Semantics, Typology/Germany

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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 02:21:33
From: Ana Krajinovic [krajinoa at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Tense, Aspect and Mood Categories across Languages

 
Tense, Aspect and Mood Categories across Languages 
Short Title: TAMCAL 

Date: 21-Aug-2019 - 24-Aug-2019 
Location: Leipzig, Germany 
Contact: Ana Krajinovic 
Contact Email: tamcalsle2019 at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Pragmatics; Semantics; Typology 

Meeting Description: 

(Session of 52nd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea)

Convenors: Kilu von Prince, Ana Krajinović, Jozina Vander Klok

Interested participants should write a provisional abstract (max. 300 words)
with their name and affiliation and send to tamcalsle2019 at gmail.com by
November 9, 2018.
For a full workshop description, please visit
https://wikis.hu-berlin.de/melatamp/SLE_workshop#Workshop_description.

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.  
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.

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. 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.

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. Possible topics for submission
include:

- Descriptive case studies of a specific TAM marker or paradigm;
- Typological studies of the distribution of certain categories;
- Formal and functional approaches to specific TAM categories;
- Formal and functional approaches to the grammaticalization/diachrony of
specific TAM categories;
- Interdisciplinary studies that compare different approaches.
 






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