35.3523, Calls: Tense, Aspect and Modality en L2

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Subject: 35.3523, Calls: Tense, Aspect and Modality en L2

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Date: 09-Dec-2024
From: José Amenós Pons [jamenos at ucm.es]
Subject: Tense, Aspect and Modality en L2

Full Title: Tense, Aspect and Modality en L2
Short Title: TAML2

Date: 27-Nov-2025 - 29-Nov-2025
Location: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, Spain
Contact Person: José Amenós-Pons
Meeting Email: taml2ucm at gmail.com
Web Site:
https://eventos.ucm.es/122980/detail/tense-aspect-and-modality-in-l2-taml2.html

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Semantics

Call Deadline: 19-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

TAML2 brings together researchers from many different countries,
working on different aspects of the acquisition, learning and teaching
of TAM in second languages. The conference responds to a widely
recognised need for an updated knowledge base and innovative
methodological tools in the study of temporal and modal
representations in second / additional languages (L2).

The acquisition and learning of Tense, Aspect and Modality (TAM) in an
additional language is one of the most challenging tasks for second
language learners. As in the previous TAML2 editions, we expect the
outcome of this conference to lead to valuable contributions to
linguistic theory and to research into second language learning,
second language acquisition (SLA) and language teaching. Over the
years, and from different theoretical perspectives, a range of
hypotheses have emerged about the factors that affect the acquisition
of morphology, semantics and discourse use of tense, aspect and
modality expressions in an L2. One of the strengths of the TAML2
conferences is the opportunity to discuss different theoretical
approaches and empirical data in a friendly atmosphere. For us, this
is the true spirit of TAML2.

2nd Call for Papers:

The submission should include: author’s name, affiliation, e-mail
address, and presentation title. Additionally, anonymized abstracts of
400-500 words including references should also be submitted in a
separate Word document. Both abstracts (with and without author
identification) should be sent together by e-mail to
taml2ucm at gmail.com

In this edition, special attention will be paid to the expression of
evidentiality through TAM devices, and to the challenges of expressing
and interpreting evidential content in an L2. The term evidentiality
(Boas, 1911) refers, strictly speaking, to a set of grammatical
mechanisms, of obligatory use in some languages, whose primary
function is to indicate the origin of the information expressed in an
utterance. All languages have resources for marking the source of
information and, in relation to this, assessing the likelihood of
something, or expressing greater or lesser confidence regarding its
veracity (Aikhenvald, 2018). Languages differ, however, in the
resources available for this. So, in a more comprehensive use of the
term, evidentiality encompasses a range of morphosyntactic, lexical or
pragmatic mechanisms, of obligatory or optional use, which point to
the original source of information for the content expressed.

The nature of the resources available in different languages implies
that evidential notions are, in turn, related to other linguistic
notions: for example, and recurrently, to tense and aspect. Past and
future tenses are the ones that most often, in typologically different
languages, give way to evidentiality (Forker, 2018). Mood choices and
modal auxiliary verbs can also express evidentiality.

The ability to interpret evidential mechanisms brings general
cognitive skills into play and is thus situated at the
grammar/discourse interface. In studies of L2 acquisition, it has
often been pointed out that the phenomena at the grammar/discourse
interface, or syntax/semantics/pragmatics, tend to be particularly
complex (Sorace, 2011). This fact, together with the deep relationship
of the TAM categories to the expression of evidentiality in many
languages, is central to the attention given to the concept of
evidentiality at this conference. There will be a thematic panel on
the acquisition of evidential mechanisms in L2s, based on TAM
expressions. Nevertheless, proposals related to other relevant aspects
of L2 acquisition, teaching and learning of TAM are equally welcome.

Selected papers will be published in high-ranked journals and/or
monographic volumes.

Deadline: January 19, 2025, 5 a.m.

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