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<p>--Apologies for cross-posting--</p>

<p>Dear Colleagues,</p>

<p><span>For those of you who are interested in evidentiality and grammaticalization, you are welcome to join the on-site/online workshop "Evidentiality and its grammaticalization" on December 4th. </span></p>

<p>To receive the Zoom link for the event, please send an email to<span> </span><a href="mailto:eric.melac@univ-montp3.fr">eric.melac@univ-montp3.fr</a> </p>

<p>Programme (Paris Local time):</p>

<p>8.45am Introduction</p>

<p>9-10am <strong>Nicolas Tournadre</strong><span> </span>(Aix-Marseille, IUF, Lacito)<span> </span><em>Relationship between sensory and inferential markers: Examples from some Tibetic languages</em> </p>

<p>10.30-11.30am <strong>Jan Nuyts</strong> (University of Antwerp)<span> </span><em>On the link between grammaticalization and subjectification: The case of the Dutch modals</em> </p>

<p>11.30-12.30pm <strong>Debra Ziegeler</strong> (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, EMMA)<span> </span><em>On the co-optation of </em>according to<em> as an evidential in English</em></p>

<p>2-3pm <strong>Eric<span> </span></strong><strong>Mélac</strong> (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, EMMA)<span> </span><em>Evidentiality as a universal grammaticalization catalyst: An assessment of obligatorification, backgrounding, and optimization</em></p>

<p>3-4pm <strong>Kasper Boye</strong><span> </span>(University of Copenhagen)<span> </span><em>Evidentiality, discourse prominence and grammaticalization</em></p>

<p>4.30-5.30pm <strong>Björn Wiemer</strong><span> </span>(Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)<span> </span><em>On linguists’ pets and sacrifices: Why do evidentiality markers raise challenges to grammaticalization theory?</em><span> </span>(videoconference)</p>

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<p> Best wishes,</p>

<p>Eric Mélac</p>

<p>Associate professor (Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier 3)</p>

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