36.3122, Confs: Workshop at SLE 2026: ‘Turn Out Verbs’ or ‘Emergence-of-Knowledge’ Verbs Crosslinguistically: Properties and Category Boundaries (Germany)

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Date: 15-Oct-2025
From: Ana Stulic [ana.stulic at u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr]
Subject: Workshop at SLE 2026:‘Turn Out Verbs’ or ‘Emergence-of-Knowledge’ Verbs Crosslinguistically: Properties and Category Boundaries


Workshop at SLE 2026: ‘Turn Out Verbs’ or ‘Emergence-of-Knowledge’
Verbs Crosslinguistically: Properties and Category Boundaries
Short Title: SLE 2026

Date: 26-Aug-2026 - 29-Aug-2026
Location: Osnabrück, Germany
Contact: Ana Stulic
Contact Email: ana.stulic at u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr
Meeting URL: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Text/Corpus
Linguistics

Submission Deadline: 15-Nov-2025

Convenors: Ana Stulic (Bordeaux Montaigne University, AMERIBER-GRIAL)
and Patrick Dendale (University of Antwerp, GAP)
Abstracts (max 300 words, not counting the references) should be sent
to ana.stulic at u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr & patrick.dendale at uantwerpen.be
by 15 November 2025.
This is a shortened version of the CFP. Please check the full version
at:
https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/10/Workshop-Turn-out-or-emergence-of-knowledge-verbs-SLE2026.pdf
This workshop proposal builds on the achievements of the SLE2025
workshop on turn out verbs and constructions. It examined verbs, in a
large variety of languages, all translatable by English turn out in
sentences like in (1)-(3) for s’avérer (French), blijken (Dutch),
resultar (Spanish):
(1)     Ayant mystérieusement recouvré ses esprits, il regarda,
horrifié, si le bébé était intact, ce qui s’avéra être le cas. (ftt23)
’Having mysteriously regained consciousness, he looked around in
horror to see if the baby was unharmed, which turned out to be the
case.’
(2)     De storm was ruim van tevoren voorspeld en bleek zelfs iets
minder hevig dan was verwacht. (nltt20) ’The storm had been forecast
well in advance and turned out to be even less severe than expected. ’
(3)     Ahí te quiero yo ver cuando resulte que sale con otra persona
y tú todavía no lo hayas superado. (estt23)‘I want to see how you
handle it when it turns out he’s with someone else and you’re still
not over him.’
It has been shown that these verbs are vague as for the manner in
which the knowledge is acquired (by inference, hearsay, or direct
perception) and, therefore, cannot be considered evidential markers
(Dendale, Izquierdo & Stulic, SLE 2024), as they had been previously
classified. Further cross-linguistic semantic research has revealed
that these verbs indicate the 'emergence' of a piece of knowledge
(Dendale & Stulic, SLE 2025). We therefore propose to refer to them as
'emergence-of-knowledge' verbs, a term that more accurately captures
their semantic features, which can be summarized as follows:
- They have the status of verbs or verbal phrases
- They are monovalent
- Their sole argument consists in the semantic role of Theme (Gruber
1965) or Object (Fillmore 1971:376), never that of Agent, Experiencer,
or Patient
- This theme has the ontological status of ‘third-order entity’ (Lyons
1977): ‘proposition’ (P) and ‘knowledge / information’
- The proposition P has the alethic status of a ‘verified truth’
- Semantically, the verbs fundamentally denote an
emergence-of-knowledge event
- This event is taken as the result of two types of ‘preparatory
events’: events of collecting knowledge and events of verifying and
validating it
- Aspectually, emergence-of-knowledge verbs are achievements: dynamic,
telic and punctual
- Depending on the tense, emergence-of-knowledge verbs refer to a
past, a recent past, a future or a hypothetical emergence event, never
to an event taking place at the moment of speech.
The SLE 2026 workshop will further explore this recently identified
semantic verb category by examining alternative verbs that meet its
criteria and by analyzing degrees of prototypicality, meaning
differences, and pragmatic uses of emergence-of-knowledge verbs.
Contributions to the workshop can be both synchronic and diachronic,
single-language descriptive (corpus studies, experimental approaches)
or comparative studies (based on parallel corpora). We especially
welcome studies on emergence-of-knowledge verbs in languages not
studied previously. Theoretical and conceptual contributions are also
invited, including arguments for or against previous classifications
of these verbs as evidential, mirative, epistemic, or aspectual
markers, and critical assessments of their defining features.



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