36.1846, Confs: Workshop on Modal Particle and Discourse (Italy)

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Subject: 36.1846, Confs: Workshop on Modal Particle and Discourse (Italy)

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Date: 13-Jun-2025
From: Roberto Graci [rgraci at unime.it]
Subject: Workshop on Modal Particle and Discourse


Workshop on Modal Particle and Discourse
Short Title: MPD

Date: 01-Jul-2025 - 02-Jul-2025
Location: Messina, Italy
Contact: Alessandro Capone
Contact Email: acapone at unime.it
Meeting URL:
https://pragmasophia2026.wordpress.com/workshop-on-modal-particles/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Semantics;
Syntax

Organizers: Alessandro Capone (University of Messina), Roberto Graci
(University of Messina)
Introduction: Alessandro Capone
Presentations:
Yael Sharvit - UCLA (Los Angeles, USA) - “Tenselessness and modal
particles”.
Michael Nelson - UC-Riverside (Riverside, USA) - “An Ockhamist theory
of the modal particle 'power’ in sentences of the form A has at t1 the
power to F at t2”
Nathan Salmon - UC-Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, USA) - “Modal
discourse”
Alessandra Giorgi - Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy) -
“Negative and positive particles in Italian as special answers”
Erika Petrocchi - Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy) - “Mica as
a Modal Particle in Italian: Evidence from a Multimodal Analysis”.
Jacopo Garzonio and Cecilia Poletto - University of Padua (Italy) -
“The interaction between negation and modal particles”.
Daniele Panizza - University of Messina (Italy) - “Excluded Middle: An
experimental study”
Alessandro Capone - University of Messina (Italy) - “Modal adverbs and
discourse”
Roberto Graci - University of Messina (Italy) - “Modality and
discourse”
Federica Longo - University of Messina (Italy) - “Acquiring Modality
and Modal Particles: A Corpus-Based Study on Child Language”.



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