36.2260, Calls: Studia Germanica Gedanensia - "Modality and its interfaces with aspectuality, temporality and epistemicity" (Jrnl)

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Date: 25-Jul-2025
From: Pierre-Yves Modicom [pierre-yves.modicom at univ-lyon3.fr]
Subject: Studia Germanica Gedanensia - "Modality and its interfaces with aspectuality, temporality and epistemicity" (Jrnl)


Journal: Studia Germanica Gedanensia
Issue: Modality and its interfaces with aspectuality, temporality and
epistemicity
Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2025

The volume 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)
Languages of publication are German and English. The manuscript should
be approximately 40,000 characters in length (including footnotes and
bibliography).
Please submit your contribution, which must not have been previously
published elsewhere, by December 1, 2025 via Submissions | Studia
Germanica Gedanensia.
https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/SGG/about/submissions

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics

Language Family(ies): Germanic



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