33.2119, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Subject: 33.2119, Calls: General Linguistics/France

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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 21:27:39
From: Ghanshyam SHARMA [paris.conditionals at gmail.com]
Subject: International Conference on Tense and Aspect in Conditionals

 
Full Title: International Conference on Tense and Aspect in Conditionals 
Short Title: ICTAC 

Date: 02-Nov-2022 - 04-Nov-2022
Location: INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris, France, France 
Contact Person: Ghanshyam SHARMA
Meeting Email: paris.conditionals at gmail.com
Web Site: https://condparis.sciencesconf.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2022 

Meeting Description:

It is a well-known fact that hypothetical conditional constructions – of the
form “If A, then B” – do not express factuality in the same way as do other
linguistic utterances, such as assertions: neither the antecedent nor the
consequent in a hypothetical statement can be thought of as being true in the
real world. Rather, hypothetical conditional statements are concerned with the
speaker’s “ability to reason about alternatives, uncertainties and unrealized
contingencies” (Traugott et al. 1986). But, what grammatical tools do natural
languages employ to express hypothetical uncertainties and unrealized
contingencies? And, are there any cross-linguistic patterns that can account
for the different ways of expressing hypotheticality in natural languages?

It is known that some languages make use of their sophisticated and
grammaticalized tense-aspect systems to mark the distinction between two,
three or even more categories of hypothetical constructions, whereas others
have recourse to simple morphological devices or clause ordering in a
conditional statement. This conference seeks to provide an international forum
for a fruitful discussion among researchers working on specific topics in this
field, such as the role of tense and aspect in conditional constructions, the
perfective/imperfective dichotomy in conditionals, time-branching models in
counterfactuals, fake tenses and aspects, truth-conditional accounts of tense
and aspect in conditionals, as well as other recent proposals such as
X-marking theory (von Fintel & Iatridou 2022).


Call for Papers:

We welcome abstracts for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes for
discussion). Submissions on any aspects (i.e. syntactic, semantic or
pragmatic) of tense and aspect in conditionals from any linguistic framework
(formal, functional, typological, cognitive, etc.) or any logical approach are
welcome. Abstracts should be in Word format, anonymous, and no more than 500
words in length. They should clearly state the research questions and the
method of analysis adopted, and be sent to: paris.conditionals at gmail.com as
soon as possible, and preferably no later than August 31, 2022. All
submissions will be reviewed anonymously and a decision on acceptance will be
communicated within a week of receipt of the abstract.




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