37.2178, Confs: Emerging Grammatical Categories 2026 (France)

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Date: 22-Jun-2026
From: Patrick Caudal [patrick.caudal at cnrs.fr]
Subject: Emerging Grammatical Categories 2026


Emerging Grammatical Categories 2026
Short Title: EmGraCa 2026
Theme: Workshop on the typology, semantics/pragmatics, morphosyntax
and diachrony of newly recognized grammatical categories

Date: 02-Nov-2026 - 04-Nov-2026
Location: Fontainebleau, France
Contact: Patrick Caudal
Contact Email: patrick.caudal at cnrs.fr
Meeting URL: https://emgraca2026.sciencesconf.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Linguistic Theories; Typology

Submission Deadline: 10-Aug-2026

Invited speaker: Kilu von Prince (U. Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Düsseldorf)
We invite submissions for EmGraCa 2026, a workshop dedicated to the
investigation of emerging grammatical categories, with a particular
focus on categories that have only relatively recently been
identified, theorized, or systematically compared across languages.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers working on
underexplored or newly conceptualized domains of grammar, especially
those grounded in semantic distinctions that challenge or refine
traditional typologies. As the title of the workshop suggests, we hope
that it will be the first occurrence in a future series of events.
Recent decades have seen the recognition and growing study of several
such categories, and raise important questions about their delineation
and interplay. More generally, this research has focused on their
semantic, pragmatic, morphosyntactic, and discursive properties, as
well as about pathways of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic
comparability.
Topics of Interest:
Categories of interest can relate to any (relatively) recently
identified, major semantically-based grammatical category, such as
 - Apprehensives / apprehensionals / evitatives / frustratives
(Lichtenberk 1995, Vuillermet 2018, Fuentes 2022, AnderBois &
Dąbkowski, 2021, 2025, Faller, Vuillermet & Schultze-Berndt, to
appear)
 - Avertives (Kuteva 1998, Overall 2007, Kuteva et al. 2019, Caudal
2023)
 - Miratives (DeLancey 2001, AnderBois 2018, Petersen 2019)
 - Markers of mistaken belief, false inference, or misperception
(Caudal 2023, McGregor 2024)
 - Iamitives (Olsson 2013, Dahl 2022)
 - Epistemic stance/commitment (Mansfield 2019)
 - Egophoricity (San Roque, Floyd & Norcliffe 2018)
 - Language-specific categories broadly relating to expressivity (in
the sense of e.g. Potts 2007, Gutzman 2015, 2019, Bross 2021, Caso et
al. 2021…) and subjectivity (especially of a modal/evidential nature)
We welcome contributions addressing (but not limited to) the following
themes:
 - Descriptive and typological studies of emerging grammatical
categories
 - Diachronic pathways and grammaticalization processes leading to
these categories
 - Areal and genealogical distribution of emerging categories
 - Formal modeling (semantic, syntactic, or computational) of these
categories, especially at the morphosyntax/semantics and
semantics/pragmatics interface
 - Interaction with modality, evidentiality, tense-aspect, and
polarity
 - Corpus-based and experimental approaches
 - Methodological and theoretical issues in identifying and defining
new grammatical categories
 - Comparisons with more established categories and implications for
linguistic theory
Submission Guidelines:
Abstracts should be anonymous and no longer than 2 pages (including
examples and references)
Please use a 12-point font, with reasonable margins.
Submissions must be in PDF format and written in English, and should
be sent to emgraca2026@ and patrick.caudal at cnrs.fr and
rozenn.guerois at cnrs.fr
Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by the scientific committee.
Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: 10. August. 2026
Notification of acceptance: 1. September 2026
Workshop dates: 02 to 04. November 2026
Venue : Forest Ecology Station/Station d’écologie forestière,
Université Paris-Cité, Fontainebleau
Format
The workshop will welcome up to 15 oral presentations (20 minutes + 10
minutes discussion), plus two plenary talks given by our invited
speakers.
Aims:
EmGraCa seeks to:
Foster dialogue across subfields (typology, semantics, pragmatics,
historical linguistics)
Clarify the status and boundaries of emerging grammatical categories
Encourage cross-linguistic comparison and theoretical integration
Provide a platform for new empirical findings and conceptual advances
– if the workshop is successful, we hope it will be reiterated in
future years.
For inquiries, please contact: patrick.caudal at cnrs.fr
We look forward to your contributions and to advancing the study of
emerging grammatical categories together.
Organization committee: Patrick Caudal (LLF, CNRS & U. Paris-Cité),
Rozenn Guérois (LLACAN, CNRS), Anton Granvik (University of Helsinki)
Scientific Committee :
Daniel Altshuler (Oxford University)
Scott AnderBois (Brown University)
James Bednall (A.N.U. / the Charles Darwin University)
Patrick Caudal (LLF, UMR CNRS 7110, CNRS & Université Paris-Cité)
Agnès Celle (ALTAE, Université Paris-Cité)
Anton Granvik (the University of Helsinki)
Rozenn Guérois (LLACAN, UMR CNRS 8135)
David-Felipe Guerrero-Beltran (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
Alexandre François (LATTICE, UMR CNRS 8094, ENS & U. Sorbonne
Nouvelle)
Stefan Kaufmann (University of Connecticut)
Rob Mailhammer (the University of Western Sydney)
Maïa Ponsonnet (DDL, UMR CNRS 5596, CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Kilu von Prince (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Louis de Saussure (Université de Neuchâtel)
Eva Schultze-Berndt (the University of Manchester)
Beatrice Serafino-Pahonțu (SEDYL & LLF, UMR CNRS 8202 & 7110, INALCO)
EmGraCa 2026 gratefully acknowledges the financial support of its
sponsors: the inIdEx project Empirical Foundations of Linguistics
(ANR-18-IDEX-0001), the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (UMR CNRS
7110), the University of Helsinki, and the Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Düsseldorf.



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