25.4513, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Italy

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Subject: 25.4513, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Italy

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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:26:40
From: Silvio Cruschina [silvio.cruschina at univie.ac.at]
Subject: Grammaticalization of Evidential and Epistemic Marker

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Full Title: Grammaticalization of Evidential and Epistemic Markers 

Date: 31-Jul-2015 - 31-Jul-2015
Location: Naples, Italy 
Contact Person: Silvio Cruschina
Meeting Email: silvio.cruschina at univie.ac.at
Web Site: http://www.ichl22.unina.it/materiali/workshop/WS-The-grammaticalization.pdf 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jan-2015 

Meeting Description:

Studies on evidential and epistemic markers, as well as on their relationship
to each other, continue to abound in several areas of current linguistic
research, including typology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. This workshop
aims to bring together scholars working on the rise and development of these
markers, with contributions on individual case studies or on comparative
analyses able to shed light on analogies and differences in the historical
linguistic processes that lead to the emergence of evidential and epistemic
markers. The focus of the workshop will be on the grammaticalization and
development of such markers from various sources and constructions, such as
verbs belonging to specific categories, periphrastic constructions,
adverbials, but also the grammaticalization or diachronic restructuring of
evidential and epistemic grammatical systems.

Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes discussion). They should be no longer than two pages, including examples and references (1 inch margin all around, font 12 pt, notes and references 10 pt). Please use Unicode fonts, and send your submission as a Word, Open Office or Word Perfect file to: infoichl22 at unina.it.

The deadline for submissions is 30 January 2015. Notifications will be sent by 30 March 2015.

The following questions will be addressed in the workshop:

- Can we identify different degrees or stages of grammaticalization for evidential and epistemic markers? Do they (always) follow the traditionally recognized clines or cycles for linguistic change?
- Do these paths of grammaticalization start from a delimited set of potential sources? Are they subject to specific restrictions determined by the general system in which evidentiality and epistemicity are encoded in a given language or language family?
- Does a diachronic reconstruction of the relevant sources and paths of grammaticalization help us understand the relationship between evidentiality and epistemicity?
- Can the possible evidential semantic overtones or extensions of epistemic markers be imputed to a given historical cause or source? Do they only concern certain types or specific developments of epistemic markers?
- How ‘strong’ is, from a diachronic perspective, Aikhenvald’s (2004) distinction between lexical evidential strategies and grammatical evidentials? Does grammaticalization uniquely lead to the rise of either type (lexical vs. grammatical) of evidential markers? Can a similar distinction be applied to the epistemic domain?
- The rise of evidential or epistemic markers may be attributed to a process of lexicalization, rather than grammaticalization (cf. Olbertz 2007 on Mexican Spanish dizque). Which are then the most relevant characteristics and criteria that would allow us to distinguish between the two processes?
- What is the relationship between evidentiality and (in)direct reportative or quotative strategies (cf. Aikhenvald 2004, Demonte & Fernández Soriano 2014, a.o.)? Do they belong to the same functional domain or do we need to tell them apart in some cases? 
- What is the role of subjectification (Traugott 1995, 1996) in the grammatical changes involving evidential and epistemic meanings? Is it a common and necessary condition to the rise of both kinds of markers?
- How can the newly acquired speaker-oriented meanings be handled and explained within theoretical approaches? Do diachronic changes of this type always involve reanalysis or movement targeting higher functional projections in the generative models (Roberts & Roussou 2003, Speas & Tenny 2003, Hill 2007, Roberts 2010, Cruschina in press, a.o)?

We invite submissions dealing with, but not limited to aspects concerning epistemicity and evidentiality in relation to these questions, both from Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages. We welcome contributions from all frameworks and approaches, including data-driven, corpora, discourse, typological and/or theoretical analyses.

The full description of the workshop can be found here:

http://www.ichl22.unina.it/materiali/workshop/WS-The-grammaticalization.pdf

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