Date: 14-Nov-2022 – 15-Nov-2022
Location: University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Contact Person: Francesca Dell’Oro
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: https://www.unine.ch/isla/home/colloques/modality-in-historical-stages-me.html

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories; Typology

Call Deadline: 30-Aug-2022

Meeting Description:

The international conference Modality in historical stages: methods and resources for investigating modality aims at bringing together researchers working with different methodologies and resources on modality in historical stages. In recent years, there has been an exponential increase in the number of resources and methods that can be used to answer a research question. The colloquium aims to take stock of the choices related to both resources and methods, addressing questions such as:

How is methodology shaped by extant resources?

How are resources selected, adapted or set up in light of research questions?

Which tools can be useful in exploring resources such as corpora and databases?

The conference will thus provide a better understanding of the issues related to the choice of resources and methods for a research question as well as a less fragmented view of these, given the abundance of tools and corpora currently available to researchers.

Call for Papers:

Papers concerning modality in any language and in any theoretical framework are welcome. The addressed research questions can have both a diachronic and a synchronic perspective and focus on one or more historical stages of one or more languages. In view of the openness of the call we ask authors to define in brief how they use the term ‘modality’.

Anonymous abstracts (maximum 500 words, excluded bibliographical references) should be sent to modhista2022 – at – gmail.com