[Corpora-List] CFP workshop on Evidentiality, Mirativity and Modality

[Celle Agnes]

A workshop on Evidentiality, Mirativity and Modality is to be submitted 
for consideration within the International Conference on Evidentiality 
and Modality in European Languages 2014, to be held at the

Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Contact persons:

Agnès Celle & Anastasios Tsangalidis

agnes.celle at univ-paris-diderot.fr & atsangal at auth.gr

Paper submissions are invited for 20 minutes talks - + 10 min. 
discussion -- including a 300 word abstract and a title. Data from any 
European language(s) can be presented. Note, however, that the working 
language of the workshop will be English. All papers will be circulated 
beforehand in order to facilitate roundtable discussion.

Subject Language(s): any European language

The language of the workshop will be English.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2014

Notification of acceptance by the workshop convenors: 30 March 2014

Notification of acceptance by the conference organisers: 26 April 2014

Papers accepted for oral presentation due by 5 September 2014

Registration for the workshop is done as part of the normal conference 
registration process:

Early bird registration opens: 1 June 2014

Registration (full fee): 1 July 2014

Registration closes: 7 October 2014

Conference Fees (including coffee breaks, Wi-Fi access, and a conference 
pack):

Early Bird Registration (from 1 June to 30 June 2014):

- Regular participants: 120 Euros

- Students (with valid ID): 70 Euros

Late Registration:

- Regular participants: 150 Euros

- Students (with valid ID): 100 Euros

CALL INFORMATION

The aim of this workshop is to focus on the relation between mirativity 
and evidentiality. Ever since DeLancey's work on Lhasa Tibetan, 
mirativity has been promoted as a cross-linguistic category which 
encodes information that is "new or surprising to the speaker". However, 
there has been much debate on whether such a category is relevant to 
cross-linguistic analysis and even to Tibetan. Lazard, for instance, 
challenges DeLancey's theory on the grounds that inference, hearsay and 
unexpected observation are all facets of the mediative category. Hill 
rejects both the category of mirativity and DeLancey's analysis of 
Tibetan data, claiming that the particle h.dug encodes sensory evidence, 
not new information. It seems, then, that the category of mirativity 
cannot be taken for granted. The goal of this workshop will be:

(i) to reassess the relation between mirative meaning and evidentiality 
as well as modality in European languages. More specifically, we wish to 
explore the question whether mirativity can be seen as a legitimate 
semantic category on its own or whether it is always a possible 
extension of evidential meaning.

(ii) to determine whether mirativity is a valid concept in languages 
which encode surprise not in a separate morphosyntactic category, but in 
specific constructions.

We welcome proposals for 20 minute papers on topics including (but not 
limited to) the following areas:

- (ad-)mirative mood and meaning in European languages: to what extent 
are all individual markers the exponents of a single, cross-linguistic, 
category? For example, what various analysts call 'mirative' in 
different Balkan languages involves quite distinct properties -- both 
formally and notionally. Assuming that mirativity is a valid 
cross-linguistic category, is it prototypically organized? To what 
extent can different mirativity markers deviate from the prototype?

- The connection between unexpectedness, direct / indirect evidence, 
sensory evidence and modality, especially in terms of speaker's 
responsibility

- Further possible questions concerning mirativity: are there 
well-attested paths of development out of particular lexical/grammatical 
sources? Is mirativity located in the Tense-Aspect-Mood area? Is it a 
property of sentences or utterances? Does it involve a specific sentence 
form or focus construction reflecting information structure? Can 
mirativity be subsumed under the broad category of "noncanonicity 
judgement" (Fillmore & Kay & O'Connor) and how is it related to 
constructions such as "Mad Magazine sentences" (Akmajian), "Incredulity 
Response Constructions" (Fillmore & Kay & O'Connor), "What's X doing Y?" 
(Kay & Fillmore)?

Selected References

Akmajian, Adrian, 1984. Sentence types and the form-function fit, in 
NLLT 2, 1, 1-23.

Chafe, Wallace & Johanna Nichols (eds.). 1986. Evidentiality. The 
linguistic coding of epistemology. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

DeLancey, Scott, 1997. Mirativity: The grammatical marking of unexpected 
information. Linguistic Typology 1. 33-52.

Fillmore, Charles & Kay, Paul & O'Connor, Mary. 1988. Regularity and 
idiomaticity in grammatical constructions: the case of "Let alone". 
Language 64: 501-538.

Hill, Nathan. 2012. "Mirativity" does not exist: h.dug in "Lhasa" 
Tibetan and other suspects. Linguistic Typology 16, 389-433.

Kay, Paul and Fillmore Charles J. 1999. Grammatical Constructions and 
Linguistic Generalizations: The What's X Doing Y? Construction, 
Language, Vol. 75, No. 1, 1-33.

-- 
Agnès CELLE
Professeur de linguistique anglaise
Directrice adjointe de l'EA 3967 CLILLAC-ARP

Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7
UFR d'Etudes Anglophones
Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges
bureau 753
8 rue Albert Einstein
75 013 Paris

tel: 01 57 27 58 67


Adresse postale:
5 rue Thomas Mann, case 7046
75205 Paris Cedex 13

agnes.celle at univ-paris-diderot.fr
http://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/EtudesAnglophones/pg.php?bc=CHVRENG&page=MembreUFR&g=sm&uid=acelleka

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