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Date: April 25-26, 2024<br>
Place: Tübingen, Germany, Wilhelmstr. 21, Room B004<br>
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Meeting description:<br>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="line-height:14.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">Evidentiality
is commonly described as the marking of <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">source</i> of information
(firsthand vs. non-firsthand) or also as the discrimination
between direct knowledge through sense perception, on the one
hand, and indirect knowledge, namely hearsay <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">and</i> inference, on the
other.</span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="line-height:14.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">The
modern Tibetic languages are known to have developed quite a
particular type of ‘evidential’ marking. One of the key features
is the subjective involvement of the epistemic <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">origo</i> (the speaker in
statements and the addressee in questions plus the original
speaker in reported speech) in the events reported. The ‘system’
is thus also known under the key terms of ‘egophoricity’ and
‘conjunct/disjunct’, both concepts often mistaken for a somewhat
weird syntactic person category (ego vs. non-ego). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="line-height:14.0pt;mso-line-height-rule:exactly"><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB">However,
the ‘system’ is extremely flexible, allowing, in principle, most
if not all forms for all persons, albeit in different
frequencies and for different motivations. It further does not
only deal with the source of information or the access channels
(self-centred knowledge, perception, and inferences), but also
or even predominantly with the subjective assessment of the
situation and/or the socio-pragmatic situation. The pragmatic
factors appear to be related to a speaker’s rights to treat a
particular piece of knowledge as belonging to his or her
‘territory of information’, this also means that speaker-hearer
(a)symmetries may play a crucial role. </span><span
style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt"
lang="EN-GB">The workshop aims at discussing the ‘unsystematic’
aspects of ‘ego’-evidentiality or participatory knowledge marking.<br>
<br>
Invited speakers: Ilana Mushin, Professor of Linguistics, Deputy
Head of<br>
School, Linguistics Major Convener, School of Languages and
Cultures,<br>
University of Queensland, Australia.<br>
Nicolas Tournadre, Professor emeritus, Department of Linguistics
and Aix-<br>
Marseille University and CNRS, France.<br>
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Program<br>
<br>
<b>Thursday, 25.04.2024 – Tibetic languages</b><b><br>
</b><br>
09:30-10:00 Address of welcome and introduction<br>
10:00-10:30 <b>Nicola Tournadre & Dickey Tsang Tsering
Wangdue</b><br>
<i>The grammatical expressions of access to personal knowledge and
personal experience. An illustration of the flexibility of the
Tibetic evidential systems.</i><br>
break<br>
10:45-11:30 <b>Hiroyuki Suzuki</b><br>
<i>Towards shaping the egophoric category in Tibetic languages:
Suggestions from the factual evidential expression emerging in
Japanese</i><br>
11:30-12:15 <b>Rtamgrin Lhamo</b> <br>
<i>Egophoricity of Minyag</i><i><br>
</i>lunch break<br>
14:15-15:00 <b>Wang Jiahong</b> <br>
<i>Distribution of egophoricity in Golog: An investigation of
flexibility and inflexibility</i><i><br>
</i>15:00-15:45 <b>Juha Yiliniemi</b> <br>
<i>Flexibility of personal and neutral forms in Denjongke</i><i><br>
</i>break<br>
16:00-17:30 Discussion<br>
<br>
<b>Friday, 26.04.2024 – Tibetic and beyond</b><b><br>
</b><br>
09:45-10:00 Introduction to the second part<br>
10:00-10:30 <b>Ilana Mushin</b><br>
<i>Managing knowledge asymmetry in grammar and interaction</i><i><br>
</i>break<br>
10:45-11:30 <b>Henrik Bergqvist</b> <br>
<i>Revisiting the origo: a view from the Andes</i><br>
11:30-12:15 <b>Christian Huber</b><br>
<i>Egophoricity, evidentiality and modality in Shumcho/ Humcho</i><i><br>
</i>lunch break<br>
14:15-15:00 <b>Zoe Tribur, Sangsrgyas Tshering & Rtamdrin
Lhamo</b><br>
<i>A preliminary account of “non-canonical” occurrences of
epistemic markers in spontaneous speech data of Amdo Tibetan</i><i><br>
</i>15:00-15:45 <b>Bettina Zeisler</b><br>
<i>A paradigm of pragmatic flexibility: the case of the Ladakhi
dialects</i><i><br>
</i>break<br>
16:00-17:30 Discussion<br>
<br>
We warmly welcome guests. Please register with Bettina Zeisler
before April 17. Registration is free of costs. For further
questions, please contact Bettina Zeisler. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:zeis@uni-tuebingen.de">zeis@uni-tuebingen.de</a><br>
DfG Projekt<br>
Evidentialität, epistemische Modalität und Sprecherhaltung im
Ladakischen - Modalität und die<br>
Semantik-Pragmatik-Grammatik-Schnittstelle / Evidentiality,
epistemic modality, and speaker<br>
attitude in Ladakhi - Modality and the interface for semantics,
pragmatics, and grammar<br>
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