Workshop 10: The role of language modality in variation and change
Malika Reetz, Barthe Bloom, Laura Gosemann & Isabell Jänich (U Potsdam)
Wednesday, March 05, 2025
| 13:45 – 14:45 |
Kasper Boye, Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (University of Copenhagen, University of Manchester) What qualifies a meaning or sign for grammaticalization? From discourse prominence to language modality |
| 14:45 – 15:15 |
Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam) On the role of iconicity in grammaticalization |
| 15:15 – 15:45 |
Johnatan Bonilla (HU Berlin) Lexicalization of non-standard phenomena in Spanish across modalities: A study of existential ‘haber’ pluralization and postposed possessives |
| 15:45 – 16:30 |
Coffee break |
| 16:30 – 17:00 |
Nico Lehmann (HU Berlin) Mode variation in clausal complexity in German and Persian |
| 17:00 – 17:30 |
Julia Hübner (University of Hamburg) The effects of modality on gender agreement conflicts in German |
| 17:30 – 18:00 |
Elena Riekhakaynen, Vladislav Zubov (Saint Petersburg State University) Towards more variation in written communication: Reduced words come into play |
Thursday, March 06, 2025
| 09:00 – 09:30 |
Désirée Kleineberg (University of Bielefeld) The role of discourse traditions in the spread and decline of Romance verbal periphrases |
| 09:30 – 10:00 |
Katerina Somers Vernacular literization as revolution: Linguistic innovation in communicative contexts of distance in early medieval East Francia |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Sonja Zeman (University of Augsburg) Language change between orality, dialogicity, and narration |