35.54, Calls: International Congress of Linguists 2024

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Subject: 35.54, Calls: International Congress of Linguists 2024

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Date: 05-Jan-2024
From: Francesca Dell'Oro [francesca.delloro at unine.ch]
Subject: International Congress of Linguists 2024


Full Title: International Congress of Linguists 2024

Date: 12-Sep-2024 - 13-Sep-2024
Location: Poznan, Poland
Contact Person: Francesca Dell'Oro
Meeting Email: francesca.delloro at unine.ch

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Typology

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2024

Meeting Description:

Convenors: Francesca Dell'Oro (University of Neuchâtel) and Elisabetta
Magni (University of Bologna)

Description: Over the past few decades, the domain of modality has
been explored from a variety of perspectives: philosophical, logical,
formal, functional, and typological approaches have proposed different
labels, criteria, and taxonomies to carve out its categories and
describe their functions. However, both synchronic and diachronic
investigations depend crucially not only on the notions that are
assumed to form the core of modality but also on those placed at its
margins.
While there is a large consensus on the role of dynamic, deontic, and
epistemic meanings, broader accounts of  modality have instead given
rise to a lively debate about the relevance and inclusion of further
(bordering) categories and phenomena. Indeed, some scholars use the
term modality in a narrow sense, limiting the analysis to those
expressions that can be described by the concepts of possibility and
necessity (van der Auwera & Plungian 1998, Kratzer 1991), yet others
describe this domain as the grammatical encoding of modal (and
related) meanings on the verb (Givón 1984, Palmer 1986), as
encompassing basic sentence types (Bybee et al. 1994), as focusing on
the qualification of states of affairs (Nuyts 2005), the factuality of
events (Narrog 2005, 2012), or the speaker’s attitude (Le Querler
2022). As a result, the boundaries of this ‘supercategory’ (Nuyts
2006: 2) remain blurred and in a state of apparent expansion.
This workshop aims to take a fresh look at the debate about the limits
and definitions of modality by exploring its fringes and its
interactions with diverse linguistic categories, semantic notions, and
functional domains, such as:

-       tense, aspect and mood;
-       quasi-modal verbs and constructions;
-       speech acts, illocution, and pragmatic phenomena;
-       (ir)realisness and the realis-irrealis continuum;
-       evidentials and evidentiality;
-       desirability and evaluation;
-       subjectivity and intersubjectivity;
-       negation.

Starting from this (non-exhaustive) list, we would like to stimulate
discussion on (i) the role of overlaps at the boundaries of the modal
domain in both synchrony and diachrony; (ii) the contribution of
typology and other approaches in identifying core and marginal
concepts; and (iii) the specific terminological aspects and
theoretical motivations underlying broader approaches to modality.

Final Call for Papers:

The deadline for submitting a paper for the workshop "At the Fringes
of Modality: New Insights on its Definitions, Limits, and Categories"
has been extended to February 1. The workshop was previously announced
and all relevant information can be found here:
https://linguistlist.org/issues/34-3292/



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