35.3453, Calls: Modality and Its Interfaces With Aspectuality, Temporality and Epistemicity (in Germanic and Beyond)

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Subject: 35.3453, Calls: Modality and Its Interfaces With Aspectuality, Temporality and Epistemicity (in Germanic and Beyond)

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Date: 01-Dec-2024
From: Pierre-Yves Modicom [pierre-yves.modicom at univ-lyon3.fr]
Subject: Modality and Its Interfaces With Aspectuality, Temporality and Epistemicity (in Germanic and Beyond)

Full Title: Modality and Its Interfaces With Aspectuality, Temporality
and Epistemicity (in Germanic and Beyond)

Date: 05-Jun-2025 - 06-Jun-2025
Location: Paris, France
Contact Person: Pierre-Yves Modicom
Meeting Email: pierre-yves.modicom at univ-lyon3.fr

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Linguistic Theories;
Semantics
Language Family(ies): Germanic

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

The informal International Working Group Modalität im Deutschen was
founded in 1992. Eleven meetings have been held since then, with the
focus of the conference gradually expanding to all Germanic languages
and to contrastive perspectives, especially within the Germanic family
and between German and other languages. The relationship between
epistemic modality and evidentiality, which are now often grouped into
one macro-category of epistemicity, has become a recurring topic. The
same holds for the interface of modality with aspectuality and
temporality.

The 12th meeting of the working group will take place in Paris, at
Sorbonne University, on June 5th-6th, 2025.

2nd Call for Papers:

The CfP for the conference on modality in Germanic and in contrast
(Paris, June 5-6, 2025) has been extend to December 15th, 2024.
Talks will last 20 to 25 minutes and will be followed by a discussion.
Abstracts should be between 1 and 2 pages long and should be sent to
pierre-yves.modicom (at) univ-lyon3.fr and olivier-duplatre (at)
wanadoo.fr
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The informal International Working Group Modalität im Deutschen was
founded in 1992. Eleven meetings have been held since then, with the
focus of the conference gradually expanding to all Germanic languages
and to contrastive perspectives, especially within the Germanic family
and between German and other languages. The relationship between
epistemic modality and evidentiality, which are now often grouped into
one macro-category of epistemicity, has become a recurring topic. The
same holds for the interface of modality with aspectuality and
temporality.

The 12th meeting of the working group will take place in Paris, at
Sorbonne University, on June 5th-6th, 2025.

The conference is open to any submission dealing with one of the
domains listed below, either from a contrastive perspective involving
a Germanic variety, or from the point of view of Germanic linguistics
per se. Contributions dealing with lesser-described or non-standard
languages and varieties are especially welcome.

Selected topics:
– The taxonomy of modal meanings, the subdivision of root modality and
the relationship between root and epistemic modality.
– The merits and limits of quantificational views on modality (e.g. in
possible worlds semantics) and the use of the concepts of possibility
and necessity as semantic primaries for the depiction of modality, in
contrast with traditions using the concept of modality as a cover term
for all kinds of propositional attitudes.
– Grammaticalization into and out of the domain of modality. This
includes, for instance, post-modal meanings such as diachronically
secondary uses as temporal or aspectual auxiliaries, or specialized
illocutionary values (e.g. in concessive contexts), but also
grammaticalization into the modal domain (e.g. GET verbs turning into
permissive modals)
– Secondary modal interpretations of non-modal expressions, especially
in the aspectual-temporal domain.
– Modality and negation, modality and polarity.
– Epistemic modality and its scope : non-propositional epistemicity,
the interaction between epistemics and sentence-mood, epistemicity as
illocutionary modification (or speech act specification), epistemicity
as a circumstance.
– Epistemic modality and speaker-orientation : logophoricity vs
egophoricity, interactional views on epistemicity, epistemicity as
deixis

Formal phenomena (indicative list):
– Modal verbs
– Modal modifiers (adverbs or adjectives)
– Modal discourse markers
– Grammatical or semi-grammatical modal items (mood markers,
particles)

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