35.3482, Calls: Modality in Bantu: Variation & Change

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LINGUIST List: Vol-35-3482. Sat Dec 07 2024. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 35.3482, Calls: Modality in Bantu: Variation & Change

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Date: 04-Dec-2024
From: Rasmus Bernander [rasmus.bernander at sprak.gu.se]
Subject: Modality in Bantu: Variation & Change

Full Title: Modality in Bantu: Variation & Change

Date: 06-Nov-2025 - 07-Nov-2025
Location: Iringa, Tanzania
Contact Person: Rasmus Bernander
Meeting Email: rasmus.bernander at sprak.gu.se
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/modality-in-bantu/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Semantics; Syntax; Typology
Language Family(ies): Narrow Bantu

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2025

Meeting Description:

Call for contributions to workshop: Modality in Bantu: Variation &
change

We invite contributions to the upcoming workshop on expressions of
modality in Bantu with a special focus on the role of variation and
change in this domain.
This workshop aims to bring together linguistic scholars from
different areas to explore variation and change in the expression of
modality in Bantu languages. We welcome submissions from a wide set of
research designs and theoretical and methodological perspectives,
provided they address modal expressions in Bantu and any associated
variation and change. Submissions that address modality and
contact-induced variation and change are especially encouraged.

Submissions may include but are not limited to the following topics:
 - Synchronically or diachronically oriented investigations (or a
combination of both).
 - Studies on any formal categories of modal construction and formal
processes of change.
 - Analyses of specific functional subcategories of modality or
investigations examining the origin and development of a single
marker.
 - Investigations of either an individual language (variety) or
comparative studies at any level (from language-internal repertories
or lects, to small set of languages, large-scale family-based studies,
or areally confined studies).
 - Studies on Bantu modality that explore contact phenomena at any
level of analysis and from any part of the Bantu speaking region.

We also welcome submissions that primarily address evidentiality,
mood, aspect, or other closely related concepts, provided they can be
shown to interact with modality, e.g., by originating from or becoming
increasingly associated with a modal function".

For the full call including all the necessary practical information,
as well as a questionnaire in English and Swahili for eliciting modal
expressions, see https://sites.google.com/view/modality-in-bantu/

Presentations will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions
and comments. Each author may participate in a maximum of 2 abstracts.

Interested participants should submit an anonymous abstract + cover
letter of no more than 300 words (excluding references) either in
English or Swahili to BantuMods at gmail.com

The deadline for all abstract submissions is March 31, 2025.

Call for Papers:

Call for contributions to workshop: Modality in Bantu: Variation &
change

November 6-7 2025
Mkwawa University of Education (MUCE), Iringa, Tanzania

We invite contributions to the upcoming workshop on expressions of
modality in Bantu with a special focus on the role of variation and
change in this domain.
This workshop aims to bring together linguistic scholars from
different areas to explore variation and change in the expression of
modality in Bantu languages. We welcome submissions from a wide set of
research designs and theoretical and methodological perspectives,
provided they address modal expressions in Bantu and any associated
variation and change. Submissions that address modality and
contact-induced variation and change are especially encouraged.
Submissions may include but are not limited to the following topics:
-       Synchronically or diachronically oriented investigations (or a
combination of both).

-       Studies on any formal categories of modal construction and
formal processes of change.

-       Analyses of specific functional subcategories of modality or
investigations examining the origin and development of a single
marker.

-       Investigations of either an individual language (variety) or
comparative studies at any level (from language-internal repertories
or lects, to small set of languages, large-scale family-based studies,
or areally confined studies).

-       Studies on Bantu modality that explore contact phenomena at
any level of analysis and from any part of the Bantu speaking region.

We also welcome submissions that primarily address evidentiality,
mood, aspect, or other closely related concepts, provided they can be
shown to interact with modality, e.g., by originating from or becoming
increasingly associated with a modal function".

For the full call including all the necessary practical information,
as well as a questionnaire in English and Swahili for eliciting modal
expressions, see https://sites.google.com/view/modality-in-bantu/

Presentations will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions
and comments. Each author may participate in a maximum of 2 abstracts.

Interested participants should submit an anonymous abstract + cover
letter of no more than 300 words (excluding references) either in
English or Swahili to BantuMods at gmail.com
The deadline for all abstract submissions is March 31, 2025.

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