Linguistics Workshop
Evidentiality and its grammaticalization
4 Dec. 2021 – St Charles Institute
Rue du Professeur Henri Serre 34080 – Montpellier (tram Albert 1er)
Salle Acte 9 (St Charles 2)
9-10am Nicolas Tournadre (Aix-Marseille University, IUF, Lacito) Relationship between sensory and inferential markers: Examples from some Tibetic languages (videoconference)
10-10.30am: Coffee break
10.30-11.30am Jan Nuyts (University of Antwerp) On the link between grammaticalization and subjectification: The case of the Dutch modals
11.30-12.30pm Debra Ziegeler (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, EMMA) On the co-optation of according to as an evidential in English
12.30-2pm Lunch break (Les Vignes)
2-3pm Eric Mélac (Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, EMMA) Evidentiality as a universal grammaticalization catalyst: An assessment of obligatorification, backgrounding, and optimization
3-4pm Kasper Boye (University of Copenhagen) Evidentiality, discourse prominence and grammaticalization
4-4.30 Coffee break
4.30-5.30pm Björn Wiemer (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz) On linguists’ pets and sacrifices: Why do evidentiality markers raise challenges to grammaticalization theory? (videoconference)
Organized by Eric Mélac (EMMA)
