37.197, Confs: Workshop on Expressive Syntax: Exclamatives, Complementizers and Epistemic Modality (Spain)

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Subject: 37.197, Confs: Workshop on Expressive Syntax: Exclamatives, Complementizers and Epistemic Modality (Spain)

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Date: 14-Jan-2026
From: Sergio Monforte [sergio.monforte at ehu.eus]
Subject: Workshop on Expressive Syntax: Exclamatives, Complementizers and Epistemic Modality


Workshop on Expressive Syntax: Exclamatives, Complementizers and
Epistemic Modality
Short Title: ExpSyntax

Date: 18-Feb-2026 - 18-Feb-2026
Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/workshop-expsyntax

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics; Syntax

Workshop on Expressive Syntax: Exclamatives, Complementizers and
Epistemic Modality
Date: 18 February 2026
Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/workshop-expsyntax
Contact: vasfunproject at gmail.com
The workshop brings together researchers working on the syntactic and
interpretative properties of exclamatives—particularly those that
involve complementizers—as well as scholars investigating epistemic
modal adverbs, expressive particles, and other elements contributing
to exclamative meaning across languages. The event is part of the
research project The syntactic and interpretative properties of
certain modality expressions in Basque (Spanish Ministry of Science
and Innovation).
The full programme is available at:
https://sites.google.com/view/workshop-expsyntax/programme?authuser=0
Those interested in joining the workshop are welcome to contact the
organizers at vasfunproject at gmail.com.
Programme – 18 February 2026
08:45–09:00 — Reception
09:00–10:00 — [Invited speaker] Alessandra Giorgi (Ca’ Foscari
University of Venice) - A multimodal perspective on warning
expressions
10:00–10:30 — Nicola Munaro (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) - On
the (in)compatibility of modal particles with the exclamative reading
across Venetan dialects
10:30–11:00 — Daniel Dzienisiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poznań)
 - Mirativity and Expressive Particles in Exclamatives: A
Cross-linguistic Study of Polish, Russian and English
11:00–11:30 — Pause
11:30–12:00 — Ömer Faruk Demirok, Balkız Öztürk Basaran & Didar Akar
(Boğaziçi University) - Expressive Rejections in Turkish: The case of
nah
12:00–13:00 — [Invited speaker] Xavier Villalba (Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona) - Expletive complementizers and epistemicity in
exclamatives
13:00–13:30 — Nádia Canceiro (Universidade de Lisboa) - When Syntax
Speaks: Expressivity in Portuguese and Spanish Contrast Root Sentences
13:30–15:00 — Lunch
15:00–15:30 — Elizaveta Khakhalina (Université Paris Cité), Caterina
Donati (Université Paris Cité) & Raffaella Zanuttini (Yale University)
- New evidence from sign languages for an exclamative clause type
15:30–16:00 — Carlo Geraci (CNRS) & Charlotte Hauser (University of
Paris 8) - Ohlala! The case of exclamatory expressions in French Sign
Language (LSF)
16:00–16:20 — Pause
16:20–17:20 — [Invited speaker] Cristina Sánchez (Universidad
Complutense de Madrid) - A journey through the history of Spanish
que-exclamative sentences
17:20–17:50 — Ben Braham Nour (Eötvös Loránd University) - Según as a
Mirative Marker in Spanish from a cognitive pragmatic approach
17:50 — Last words



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