30.2783, Calls: Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/France

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Subject: 30.2783, Calls: Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling Theories, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/France

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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 23:59:36
From: Eric Mélac [eric.melac at gmail.com]
Subject: Evidentiality and Modality: At the Crossroads of Grammar and Lexicon

Full Title: Evidentiality and Modality: At the Crossroads of Grammar and Lexicon 

Date: 11-Jun-2020 - 12-Jun-2020
Location: Montpellier, France 
Contact Person: Eric Mélac
Meeting Email: eric.melac at gmail.com
Web Site: http://evidentialite.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controller=index&lang=en 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Linguistic Theories; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 30-Oct-2019 

Meeting Description:

Evidentiality is a linguistic notion that is of particular interest when
exploring the interaction between language and cognition. Competing
conceptions of the term exist, but one of its simplest definitions is the
linguistic encoding of the source of information (Chafe & Nichols eds. 1986,
Aikhenvald 2004 inter alia).  

According to Aikhenvald, evidentiality is first and foremost a grammatical
category that can be found in some of the world’s languages, whereas other
researchers consider evidentiality a universal semantic or pragmatic concept
(Boye & Harder 2009, Cornillie, Arrese & Wiemer 2015 inter alia). There is no
denying that some languages have a distinctly more grammaticalized evidential
system than others, but the research on grammaticalization has also
established that drawing a line between what is grammatical and what is
lexical in a language depends on several criteria that are open to discussion.
Grammaticalisation theory has shed light on the non-discreteness and
non-binarity of the grammar/lexicon distinction, and on the fact that
languages around the world tend to develop grammatical forms from lexical
sources which gradually travel comparable paths (Heine & Kuteva 2002 inter
alia). More crosslinguistic research is necessary in order to place the
evidential and modal markers of the world’s languages on the lexicon-grammar
continuum, and therefore reveal the recurrent patterns that can be observed in
languages with emerging evidential or modal systems.

We welcome proposals for talks that will present data on the evidential or
modal markers of one or several languages, and contribute to this
international conference, whose objectives are to:

- develop a fruitful dialogue between the typological research on
evidentiality and modality as grammatical categories and the functional
approaches which focus on the semantic and pragmatic properties of these
domains

- bring together a large sample of languages, either featuring a fully
grammatical evidential or modal system or not

- connect the field of evidentiality and modality research with other fields
such as grammaticalisation theory

- present investigations into the L1 and L2 acquisition of evidentiality and
modality

- study how discourse particles and constructions can express evidential and
modal meanings

- explore the lexicon-grammar continuum through typological, acquisitional and
diachronic studies on evidential and modal markers

Keynote speakers:

Alexandra Aikhenvald (James Cook University)

Bernd Heine (Köln University)

Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp)

Nicolas Tournadre (Université Aix-Marseille, Lacito, IUF)

Call for Papers:

We welcome proposals for talks or posters that will present data on the
evidential or modal markers of one or several languages for this international
conference that is to take place in Montpellier on 11-12 June 2020.

For more information, please visit our website:
https://evidentialite.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controlle
r=index&lang=en

Key Dates and Registration:

July 20, 2019: Abstract submission starts
October 30, 2019: Abstract submission closes
February 2020: Notification of acceptance
April 2020: Registration (80 euro; 50 euro for graduate students)
June 11-12, 2020: Conference at University Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3 (site
St Charles)
Registration fees include lunch breaks, coffee breaks and a cocktail. 

Abstract Submission:

Abstracts should be anonymous and sent via sciencesconf.org before October 30,
2019.

https://evidentialite.sciencesconf.org/?forward-action=index&forward-controlle
r=index&lang=en

It should correspond to the themes of the conference (evidentiality, modality
and/or the lexicon-grammar continuum), be 300-450 words, in English or French
and specify the methodology and expected results of the study.

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