33.3463, Calls: Romance; Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Greece

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Subject: 33.3463, Calls: Romance; Gen Ling, Historical Ling, Pragmatics, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling/Greece

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Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2022 02:47:18
From: Susana Rodríguez Rosique [susana.rodriguez at ua.es]
Subject: Expressing surprise at the crossroads: Mirativity, exclamativity and (in)subordination in Romance languages

 
Full Title: Expressing surprise at the crossroads: Mirativity, exclamativity and (in)subordination in Romance languages 

Date: 29-Aug-2023 - 01-Sep-2023
Location: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 
Contact Person: Susana Rodríguez Rosique
Meeting Email: susana.rodriguez at ua.es
Web Site: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2023/workshop-proposals/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Since DeLancey (1997), mirativity is defined as the linguistic category that
apprehends the natural trend in languages to distinguish between information
that forms part of the speaker’s integrated picture about the world and
information that does not belong to that picture. This linguistic category
initially emerges inside the field of evidentiality (Aksu-Koç and Slobin
1986).  
Following the path opened by DeLancey, Aikhenvald (2012) details the range of
mirative meaning, among which she includes sudden discovery; surprise of the
speaker; unprepared mind of the speaker; counter-expectation; and information
new to the speaker, addressee or main character. 
If the origins of mirativity are related to evidentiality, its consolidation
as a category requires setting the boundaries with exclamativity, especially
in Indo-European languages (Olbertz 2009; Hengeveld & Olbertz 2012; Rett 2011;
Rett & Murray 2013). 
>From an empirical point of view, many of the structures that count as mirative
come from some other constructions which have been truncated, eroded and
ultimately fixed, and that have expanded their contexts of use in order to
play several interactive functions (Evans 2007; Mithun 2008; Gras 2011). In
this way, different insubordinated clauses are placed in an intermediate space
between mirativity and exclamativity (Mithun 2016; Cristofaro 2016; Gras &
Sansiñena 2017). 
All these facts lead us to ask whether all these phenomena can enter into
grammar and, if so, what conception of grammar do we need –for instance, a
discourse grammar running parallel to sentence grammar (Kaltenböck, Heine &
Kuteva 2011). 

The aim of this workshop is to determine the place of mirativity in Romance
languages. Specifically, it means to answer the question whether mirativity
can enter into grammar and, if so, what notion of grammar do we need. This
premise leads us to explore the linguistic mechanisms triggering mirative
expressions and the role that the symbiosis synchrony / diachrony plays in
their development. More specifically, the following research questions are
posed: 

- What is the linguistic status of surprise in Romance? What place does
mirativity occupies in Romance languages?
- To what extent does interactional contexts influence the development of
mirative structures –those conveying surprise– in Romance?
- Is mirativity in Romance languages an example reflecting the solidarity
synchrony / diachrony?


Call for Papers:

Call deadline:  15 November 2022
Notification of abstract acceptance / rejection from the workshop convenor: 20
November 2022
Notification of acceptance / rejection of the workshop proposal: 15 December
2022
If accepted,
Full abstract submission deadline: 15 January 2023
Notification of acceptance / rejection: 31 March 2023

References:

Aikhenvald, A. (2012): “The essence of mirativity”. Linguistic Typology 16.
Cristofaro, S. (2016): “Routes to insubordination. A crosslinguistic
perspective”, in N. Evans and H. Watanabe (eds.): Insubordination. Amsterdam /
Philadelphia: JB
DeLancey, S. (1997): “Mirativity: the grammatical marking of unexpected
information”. Linguistic Typology 1 (1).
Evans, N. (2007): “Insubordination and its uses”, in I. Nikolaeva (ed.):
Finiteness. Theoretical and Empirical Foundations. Oxford: OUP.
Gras, P. (2011): Gramática de Construcciones en Interacción. Doctoral thesis.
University of Barcelona.
Gras, P. and M. S. Sansiñena (2017): “Exclamatives in the functional typology
of insubordination: Evidence from complement insubordinate constructions in
Spanish”. Journal of Pragmatics 115.
Hengeveld, K. and H. Olbertz (2012): “Didn’t you know? Mirativity does
exist!”. Linguistic Typology 16 (3).
Kaltenböck, G., B. Heine and T. Kuteva (2011): “On thetical grammar”. Studies
in Language 35 (4).
Mithun, M. (2008): “The extension of dependency beyond the sentence”. Language
84 (1).
Mithun, M. (2016): “How fascinating! Insubordinate exclamations”, in N. Evans
and H. Watanabe (eds.): Insubordination. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: J.B.
Olbertz, H. (2009): “Mirativity and exclamatives in functional discourse
grammar: evidence from Spanish”. Web Papers in FDG.
Rett, J. (2011): “Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts”. Linguistics and
Philosophy 34.
Rett, J. and S. Murray (2012): “A semantic account of mirative evidentials”.
Proceedings of SALT 23




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