6-8 Jun 2019
Konstanz, Germany
The new deadline for submitting abstracts to the workshop ?Expressing evidence?, to take place in Konstanz, Germany, in June 2019, is December 20, 2019. Full information about the conference is below. *** Workshop "Expressing Evidence" Konstanz, Germany, June 6-8, 2019 Abstract submssion: December 20, 2018 Workshop website: http://semantics.uni-konstanz.de/workshops/evidence-2019/ Invited speakers: Corien Bary (Nijmegen) Lisa Matthewson (British Columbia) Elin McCready (Aoyama) Dilip Ninan (Tufts) Evidential restrictions cross-cut grammars in varied ways. Traditionally, evidentiality has been understood as a linguistic category that encodes the information source for an utterance (Aikhenvald 2004). A lot of current research within formal semantics and pragmatics follows the typological suit and focuses on evidential paradigms in e.g. Cuzco Quechua (Faller 2002), Lillouet Salish (Matthewson et al. 2007) and Cheyenne (Murray 2010). However, despite their paradigmatic status, not all evidentials even in those languages function identically from a semantic standpoint (AnderBois 2014, Korotkova 2017). Furthermore, there are evidentials that do not form a dedicated morphosyntactic category, such as Tagalog daw (Schwager 2010) and German wohl(Zimmerman 2004, Eckardt and Beltrama forth.), or evidentials that are part of another category, such as the tense and aspect system in Bulgarian (Izvorski 1997; Koev 2016). Finally, many constructions that are not strictly speaking evidentials have been argued to have an evidential flavor: from epistemic modals (von Fintel and Gillies 2010) over hedges (Simons 2007, McCready 2015), copy-raising constructions (Asudeh and Toivonen 2012) and quotational indefinites (Sudo 2008, Cieschinger and Ebert 2011, Koev 2016) to predicates of personal taste (Anand and Korotkova 2018). In this workshop, we want to bring together researchers working from different angles on how natural language expresses evidence. We are especially interested in (but not limited to) submissions that straddle the divide between linguistics and philosophy and address the following issues: 1. Evidentiality across syntactic categories 2. Speech acts conveyed by evidentials 3. Evidentiality in a broader context of attitude ascriptions and subjective expressions 4. Types of reasoning and knowledge involved in statements with different evidentials 5. Formal tools for modelling evidence -- natasha korotkova university of konstanz / university of tübingen nkorotkova.net -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam