37.1996, Confs: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Verum Under the Crosslinguistic Microscope (Germany)

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Date: 04-Jun-2026
From: Vera Hohaus [vera.hohaus at manchester.ac.uk]
Subject: Workshop at DGfS 2027: Verum Under the Crosslinguistic Microscope


Workshop at DGfS 2027: Verum Under the Crosslinguistic Microscope
Theme: 49th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS)

Date: 03-Mar-2027 - 05-Mar-2027
Location: Jena, Germany
Contact: Dr Vera Hohaus
Contact Email: vera.hohaus at manchester.ac.uk

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Documentation;
Typology

Submission Deadline: 31-Jul-2026

“Natural languages offer a variety of means not only to describe our
world by making a claim with specific truth conditions, but also to
address the validity of the claim and highlight its truth itself.”
(Müller 2024: 577) There is however only limited research on the means
that languages other than German and English use for such truth
highlighting, or verum marking (most notably, Gutzmann et al. 2020,
Kerr & van der Wal 2023, De Cia 2025). From this research, there
already emerges a variety of grammatical strategies for verum that may
not necessarily lend themselves to a unified compositional semantic
analysis.
The goal of this workshop is therefore to provide a forum at the 49th
Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society DGfS (3rd-5th March
2027, Universität Jena) for the discussion of the following three
research questions at the interfaces: First, what are the grammatical
means for marking verum across and within a language? Second, what
interpretative strategies underly them compositionally? Third, how can
we best address these theoretical questions in the fieldwork setting?
We invite contributions based on data from original fieldwork on
under-researched and under-represented languages, to inform a formal
typology of verum.
References:
De Cia, Simone (2025), “A Verum Focus Expletive: The Case of
Sovramontino LU”, Italian Journal of Linguistics 37(2): 99-130.
Gutzmann, Daniel; Katharina Hartmann & Lisa Matthewson (2020), “Verum
Focus is Verum, Not Focus: Crosslinguistic Evidence”, Glossa 5(1): 51.
Kerr, Elisabeth J. & Jenneke Van der Wal (2023), “Indirect Truth
Marking via Backgrounding: Evidence from Bantu”, Zeitschrift für
Sprachwissenschaft 42(3): 443-492.
Müller, Kalle (2025), “Getting the Facts Right: Focus on Adverbial
Verum Marking in German”, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 42(3):
577-609.
Organisers:
Dr Vera Hohaus & Dr Simone De Cia
The University of Manchester
Department of Linguistics and English Language
& Linguistic Diversity Collective
{vera.hohaus,simone.decia}@manchester.ac.uk



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