35.878, Calls: Workshop Habituals and Habitual Auxiliaries

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Date: 12-Mar-2024
From: Patricia Cabredo Hofherr [patricia.cabredo-hofherr at cnrs.fr]
Subject: Workshop Habituals and Habitual Auxiliaries


Full Title: Workshop Habituals and habitual auxiliaries
Short Title: Habituals Paris 2024

Date: 07-Oct-2024 - 08-Oct-2024
Location: Paris, France
Contact Person: Patricia Cabredo
Meeting Email: wshabitualsparis2024 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/synsem-colloque-habituals-and-habitu
al-auxiliaries

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology; Semantics; Syntax; Typology

Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2024

Meeting Description:

The Syntax and Semantics group of the UMR 7023 Structures Formelles du
Langage and the Research Group Habituals of the ACLC, U. v. Amsterdam
will hold a Workshop on Habituals and habitual auxiliaries on Mon 7
and Tue 8 Oct 2024.

The workshop will be held in hybrid format at UPS Pouchet, 59 rue
Pouchet 75017 Paris (access) and on zoom.

Invited speakers
Nora Boneh              (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Sune Gregersen  (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Frisian
Institute)
Iva Kovač               (U. Wien)

Deadline for submissions        1 June 2024

We gratefully acknowledge the sponsors of the workshop
- U. Paris 8 (AAP événement 2024)
- Research group Structures formelles du langage (UMR 7023 - SFL CNRS
& U. Paris 8)
- Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (U. van Amsterdam)
- IRN Typology across modalities (CNRS)

Background
Habitual aspect has been defined in various ways in the literature. A
widely used definition is that of Comrie (1976: 27–28), who defines
habituals as forms which “describe a situation which is characteristic
of an extended period of time”. Similar characterizations of habituals
are given e.g. by Dahl (1985: Ch. 3) and Carlson (2012), while other
scholars have defined habituality with explicit reference to
repetition (pluractionality, iterativity, etc.); see e.g. Brinton
(1987), Xrakovskij (1997), and Bertinetto & Lenci (2012). More
recently Gregersen & Hengeveld (forthc.) define habitual aspect as
‘unbounded repetition of an event or situation that typically occurs’.
There are three ingredients to this definition:
- Repetition: a habit manifests itself as a repetition of a certain
situation over time (cf. multiplicativity).
- Unboundedness (Fortuin 2023): repetition involved in habitual series
is unbounded, distinct from bounded iterative expressions as in, e.g.
He did it twice.
- Typicality (Comrie 1976; Dik 1997, Gregersen & van Lier forthc.):
habitual aspect expresses that a situation is characteristic for
someone or something (different from simple repetition).
Expressions of habituality are often also used for related categories:
- West Greenlandic -tar: habitual and multiplicative (Fortescue 1984:
279, Trondjem 2012: 67, 70), which share repetition.
- Coptic habitual auxiliary šare: habitual and generic statements (Van
der Vliet & Zakrzewska forthc.), which share unboundedness.
- English used to: past habitual and discontinuous past (The temple of
Diana used to stand at Ephesus, Comrie 1976, Plungian & van der Auwera
2006), which share typicality.

Workshop topics
We invite contributions on any aspect of the grammar of habituals and
habitual auxiliaries, including but not limited to the following
questions:
(i) Is habitual aspect a unified category or can it be split up into
different subcategories? (Boneh & Doron 2008, 2013)
(ii) what are the relations in terms of formal expression with
genericity, multiplicativity, and other categories of event
quantification?
(iii) what is the source and destination of habitual markers in
grammaticalization?
(iv) what are the restrictions on habitual aspect with respect to
tense?
(v) what explains the connection between (past) habitual and
discontinuous past reference?
(vi) does habitual aspect belong to the realis or the irrealis domain
or both?
(vii) how does habitual marking interact with nominal arguments
(singular indefinites, bare plurals)?

Abstracts We invite submissions for 25 minute talks (+10min
discussion) in English. Abstracts should not be longer than two pages
(Times New Roman 12 pt, single space, 2,4 cm margins). Abstracts have
to be anonymous. Please submit your abstract in pdf format by email to
wshabitualsparis2024 at gmail.com and make sure the text and the name of
the pdf do not contain the name(s) of the author(s).
Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts, only one of which may
be single-authored.

Important dates
Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2024
Notification of authors: 15 July 2024
Workshop: 7-8 Oct 2024

Website https://www.sfl.cnrs.fr/synsem-colloque-habituals-and-habitual
-auxiliaries
Contact @ wshabitualsparis2024 at gmail.com.



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