[Lingtyp] Workshop at SLE 2026: The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction

[Wal, G.J. van der (Jenneke)]

Dear colleagues,
Karolina Grzech, Martina Wiltschko and I are planning to organise a workshop at the next meeting of the SLE. If you’re working on any aspect of the speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge in linguistics, please join us and send your abstract by the 5th of November!
A summary of the workshop is below, and the full proposal and further information can be found here: https://epistemicity.net/workshop/
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Jenneke

The morphosyntax of who knows what and how in interaction
The speaker’s and addressee’s knowledge can be(come) an essential aspect of a language’s grammar and languages differ in how it is realized. Some languages encode the source of the knowledge (evidentiality), other languages may indicate the speaker’s certainty (epistemic modality), or the relative newness of the information (information structure, mirativity); additionally languages may show how the knowledge is distributed across the interlocutors (engagement and egophoricity). While descriptive and typological research is making progress in acknowledging the grammar of interactionality and its variation, formal linguistic models are yet to catch up. This workshop aims at bringing together descriptivists, typologists and formalists to explore how epistemicity can be formally modelled.

Keywords: epistemicity, formal morphosyntax, typology, evidentiality, information structure, egophoricity, engagement, epistemic modality, mirativity


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Dr G.J. van der Wal | she/her

Senior Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics<https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/leiden-university-centre-for-linguistics>

Office: Reuvensplaats 1.25

https://jennekevanderwal.com/

MapLE project https://epistemicity.net/

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