36.400, Confs: General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics / Germany

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Subject: 36.400, Confs: General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics / Germany

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Date: 31-Jan-2025
From: Fabio Del Prete [fabio.del-prete at univ-tlse2.fr]
Subject: Time and Events between Language and Cognition: A View from Romance


Time and Events between Language and Cognition: A View from Romance

Date: 20-Mar-2025 - 21-Mar-2025
Location: IU Europe Gateway, Berlin, Germany
Contact: Fabio Del Prete
Contact Email: fabio.del-prete at univ-tlse2.fr
Meeting URL:
https://events.iu.edu/spanish-portuguese/event/a-view-from-romance

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Pragmatics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): French (fra)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Occitan (post 1500) (oci)
                     Portuguese (por)
                     Spanish (spa)
Language Family(ies): Romance

Human beings exist in time, and their experiences unfold in time. Not
surprisingly, all natural languages have expressions of some kind or
other that convey temporal notions: some situate events in the past,
present or future (tenses and time adverbials), others indicate an
event’s inception, duration or end (aspectual constructions), and yet
others present an event as imminent, in progress or accomplished from
the perspective of the moment of speech (verbal periphrases). The way
in which we talk about time shapes our thought and actions. If we are
told that a disaster is going to happen, this might prompt us to take
actions to prevent it (in the hope that the disaster is not bound to
happen), if the news are that the disaster is now inevitable, or has
already happened, this would more likely incline us to mourn the
victims and to look for ways to reduce the disaster impact.
Co-organized by Dr. Patrícia Amaral (Department of Spanish and
Portuguese, IU Bloomington) and Dr. Fabio Del Prete (Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique Toulouse), this workshop brings together
scholars from several universities in Europe who work on the language
of time in connection with thought and culture. It focuses on adverbs
with complex meanings relating to time but also, interestingly, to our
expectations and attitudes concerning the development of events in
time. Examples of such adverbs are English "still" and "already", with
notorious and well-studied temporal interpretations (e.g., “There is
still no news about the hostages” / “As I have already mentioned, I
doubt that we will be able to raise all the money we need”), but also
displaying comparatively less known and not as well formally
understood modal and attitudinal values (e.g., “I’ve given God a
million reasons not to love me, and still He is so kind!” / “What was
your name already?”). One outstanding problem in theoretical
linguistics is to account for the relation between the aspectual
meanings of such adverbs (event continuation / completion, …) and
their modal meanings (surprise/concessivity, old discourse-status, …).
The focus on Romance languages is motivated by the fact that in this
language family this kind of adverbs displays distinctively
interesting and underexplored connections between their temporal
meanings and modal, evidential and interactional meanings.



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