27.1574, Confs: Gen Ling/France

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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2016 11:29:09
From: myriam bouveret [myriam.bouveret at gmail.com]
Subject: Cognition verbs, Modality, Evidentiality and Constructions

Cognition verbs, Modality, Evidentiality and Constructions 
Short Title: CGLC 

Date: 15-Apr-2016 - 15-Apr-2016 
Location: paris, France 
Contact: eric melac 
Contact Email: eric.melac at montp3.fr 
Meeting URL: http://transfers.ens.fr/article535.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

The emergence of cognition verbs in a language might be one of the first
symptoms of meta-cognitive reasoning (Recanati 2000, Sperber 2000). These
verbs are involved in a variety of complex constructions, which partly mirror
the intricate interaction between language and thought. Investigating
cognition verbs from a scientific perspective enables us to understand how we
stage our own ideas, and how linguistic forms encode our attitudes toward the
conceptual worlds of others. Urmson (1952) reinvestigated the philosophical
and linguistic questions these verbs raise, and Nuyts (2001) proposed to
distinguish two types of meaning: the qualificational and non-qualificational
uses. The latter use refers to the mental state indicated by the verb, whereas
the former is an expression of the speaker’s stance. Phrases such as ''I
think'' are extremely common in English, but their subtle meaning can only be
fully understood if we take into account the pragmatic and discursive levels
of language. This has led scholars to adopt a variety of methods – parallel
corpus research, discourse analysis, statistical research – in order to shed
light on the ever-evolving behaviour of these verbs (Aijmer 1997, Kaltenböck
2009, Kärkäinnen 2003, Dehé & Wichmann 2010, and  Krawczak & Glynn 2011 inter
alia).

This workshop will delve into the intricacies of cognition verbs from a
cross-linguistic perspective. We will analyse the near-synonymity of phrases
such as ''I think'', ''I believe'', ''I guess'', ''I suppose'', ''I imagine''
and ''I assume''. We will explore the challenge they pose to semantic
analysis, and their ambiguous modal and evidential status (Gosselin 2014).  We
will try to explain what motivates this evolution pattern (Cappelli 2007 and
Melac 2014), and describe further the processes of grammaticalisation and
cooptation that are at stake (Heine 2013, Beijering 2015). Finally, we will
investigate whether the phenomena surrounding the use of cognition verbs in
English are relevant cross-linguistically by looking at the data from a sample
of languages.

Comités cientifique: Jacques Bres (Montpellier3), Michel Charolles (LaTTiCe),
Eric Corre (Paris3), Laure Sarda (LaTTiCe) et Debra Ziegeler (Paris3)

Programme:

LaTTiCe-ENS workshop
Friday, 15 April, 2016
Salle des Actes
École normale supérieure – 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris

Cognition Verbs:  Modality, Evidentiality and Constructions

9h-9h20 
Accueil – café

9h20-9h30 
Présentation du séminaire, Myriam Bouveret (LaTTiCe)

9h30-10h 
The Cognition Verbs Puzzle: What remains to be explored?
Eric Mélac (coord.) (Montpellier 3, EMMA)

10h-10h30 
Stance-Taking Devices in Ecuadorian Siona
Martine Bruil (DDL, UMR 5596)

10h30-10h45 Pause café

10h45-11h15 
An Enunciative Study of Think in Contrastive Linguistics (English/French)
Françoise Doro-Mégy (Paris Diderot, CLILLAC-ARP)

11h15-11h45
Constructions of Epistemicity in British and American English
Karolina Krawczak (Adam Mickievicz University in Poznan) & Dylan Glynn (Paris
8, LECSEL)

11h45-12h45 
Where do the Parenthetical Uses of the Mental State Verbs Come from?
Jan Nuyts (conférencier invité) (University of Antwerp (Belgium) 

12h45-13h00 
Conclusion

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