30.3790, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Romania

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Subject: 30.3790, Calls: Gen Ling, Ling Theories, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/Romania

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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 06:26:11
From: Silvio Cruschina [silvio.cruschina at helsinki.fi]
Subject: The Grammar of Thinking: Comparing Reported Thought and Reported Speech across Languages

Full Title: The Grammar of Thinking: Comparing Reported Thought and Reported Speech across Languages 

Date: 26-Aug-2020 - 29-Aug-2020
Location: Bucharest, Romania 
Contact Person: Daniela Casartelli
Meeting Email: daniela.casartelli at helsinki.fi
Web Site: https://silviocruschina.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/sle2020-reported-speech-and-reported-thoughts-4.pdf 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2019 

Meeting Description:

Speakers may resort to a variety of linguistic strategies to report
communicative acts (‘reported speech’ = RS) or mental states (‘reported
thought’ = RT). While RS has received relatively much attention, RT is not
often explicitly discussed. Authors either group RT together with RS as a type
of ‘inner speech’ (Vygotsky 1987; Vološinov 1973), or treat it as a completely
separate phenomenon. On the one hand, structures involving RS and RT are
roughly equivalent (Palmer 1986: 135; Spronck & Nikitina 2019). Both RS
predicates (e.g. say, tell) and RT predicates (e.g. think) behave as bridge
verbs allowing for a number of syntactic phenomena, including extraction
across wh-questions, embedded V2 in Germanic languages, and complementizer
deletion (Erteschik-Shir 1973; Vikner 1995; Salvesen & Walkden 2017). The
structural resemblance is even greater in languages that do not make a lexical
distinction between ‘say’ and ‘think’ at all (Güldemann 2008; Larson 1978;
Reesink 1993; Rumsey 1990; Saxena 1988; Spronck 2015).

On the other hand, predicates of RS and RT may select different
complementizers or verbal moods in the embedded clause, and behave differently
with respect to other phenomena such as negation raising Functional,
corpus-based analyses of RS/RT have revealed differences in preferred
syntactic patterns, e.g. with respect to word order, expression and omission
of arguments and complementizers (e.g., Posio & Pešková to appear). Formalist
accounts highlight differences in the syntactic structure of RS/RT complement
clauses, in that only RS predicates select for clauses with a full structure
licensing root phenomena (Heycock 2006; Hooper & Thompson 1973). Differences
also emerge in the grammaticalization or pragmaticalization processes out of
predicates of RS/RT that yield different types of evidential and epistemic
structures and markers such semi-grammaticalized constructions, parenthetical
expressions, evidential or epistemic adverb(ial)s (cf. English methinks,
Spanish dizque, Greek lei), discourse markers and modal particles, and
grammatical elements (e.g. complementizers) (Cruschina 2015; Cruschina &
Remberger 2008; Thompson & Mulac 1991; Posio 2014; Wiemer 2018, and references
therein).

The aims of the proposed workshop are to bring together linguists working on
the relationship between RS and RT and on their different linguistic
manifestations, and to foster debate across theoretical divides and
approaches. The questions addressed in the workshop include (but are not
limited to):

- Which morphosyntactic properties characterize RS and RT in individual
languages or in a crosslinguistic sample? Which tests and criteria can be used
to distinguish between the two domains both syntactically and semantically?
- Does complementation under RS/RT predicates involve different semantic and
syntactic units and objects? Do the differences that have been observed in
complement clauses align with RT/RS or rather with the distinction between
assertive and non-assertive predicates?
- What differences and similarities in the expression of RS and RT can be
found in corpus-based studies? 
- Semantically, how does RT relate to quotation on the one hand and
propositional attitudes on the other? Can RT be interpreted as ‘inner speech’?

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions that contribute to the description, discussion, and
analysis of these and other issues concerning RS and RT in any language or in
a typological/comparative perspective. We welcome contributions from all
frameworks and approaches, including synchronic, diachronic, data-driven,
corpora, discourse, typological, and theoretical analyses. Preliminary
abstracts (300 words, as DOC and/or PDF file) should be sent to the workshop
organizers (email address: daniela.casartelli at helsinki.fi) by 10 November
2019.

Important Dates:

10 November 2019: Deadline for submission of 300-word abstracts to organizers
20 November 2019: Submission of the workshop proposals to SLE
15 December 2019: Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals from SLE 
15 January 2020: Deadline for submission of all abstracts to SLE for review
26–29 August 2020: SLE conference, University of Bucharest

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