Modalumas ir evidencialumas lietuvių kalboje

TAM-E 2016: Tense, aspect, modality, evidentiality: comparative, cognitive, theoretical, applied perspectives

 

 

 

Paryžius, 2016 m. lapkričio 17-18 d.d.

Konferencijoje pranešimą skaitys: 

• Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Erika. On the development of modal meanings in Lithuanian: the case of reikėti ‘need’ and turėti ‘have to’ 
  Abstract

   The diachronic development of modal verbs has been investigated in a number of works during the last few decades (Traugott 1989, Krug 2000, Fischer 2004, Hansen 2004, Traugott & Dasher 2005, Narrog 2012 and others). However, this research has been largely dominated by the study of Germanic languages: with the exception of some observations made by Holvoet (2007) and Jasionytė-Mikučionienė (2014), the realizations of modality in Lithuanian have not been thoroughly examined from the point of view of their historical development. Thus, the paper aims at filling this gap and providing a thorough account of the diachronic evolution of modal meanings of the two Lithuanian verbs reikėti ‘need’ and turėti ‘have to’ that function as one of the main means for expressing non-epistemic modality in Lithuanian. The data for this research is drawn from corpora comprising texts of Old Lithuanian (16th-17th c.c.) and Modern Lithuanian. In the analysed texts of Old Lithuanian, reikėti ‘need’ and turėti ‘have to’ predominantly convey participant-external and deontic necessity. However, in the earliest period of the language turėti ‘have to’ already shows ambiguity between the meanings of participant-external and epistemic necessity, – it is hypothesized that participant-external necessity may be the basis for the development of the epistemic meaning (cf. the discussion on the issue in van der Auwera & Plungian 1998, Narrog 2012). In Modern Lithuanian, turėti ‘have to’ has acquired potential to convey epistemic values, while reikėti‘need’ is less polyfunctional and mostly marks participant-external necessity. It is assumed that the types of the constructions the verbs appear in (personal vs impersonal) play a crucial role for the emergence of their modal meanings. The development of modal meanings of the verbs is analysed within the framework of subjectification proposed by Traugott (1989).  

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Neapolis, 2016 m. rugpjūčio 31 – rugsėjo 3 d.d.

Konferencijoje pranešimą skaitys: 

• Ruskan, Anna. 2016. Epistemic qualifications of the English marker likely and its equivalents in Lithuanian
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Honkongas, 2016 m. gegužės 25-29 d.d.

Konferencijoje pranešimą skaitys:

• Audronė Šolienė. (Non)epistemic modality: English must, have to and have got to and their correspondences in Lithuanian.

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Leidenas, 2015 m. rugsėjo 2-5 d.d.

SLE meetings provide a forum for high-quality linguistic research from all (sub)domains of linguistics. The upcoming edition of the SLE meeting will also host a round table of experts to discuss topics of special linguistic interest. The SLE 2015 round table bears the title ‘Interaction and Linguistic Structure’.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

• Marianne Mithun (University of California at Santa Barbara, presidential address)
• Marian Klamer (Leiden University)
• Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge)

Round Table ‘Interaction and Linguistic Structure’:

• Mira Ariel (Tel Aviv University)
• Asli Ozyurek (Radboud University Nijmegen and MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)

Konferencijoje pranešimą skaitys:

• Jolanta Šinkūnienė. Engagement in Research Writing: Modal Verbs of Obligation in a Cross-linguistic and Cross-disciplinary Perspective.

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Antverpenas, 2015 m. liepos 26-31

The special theme of this edition of the International Pragmatics Conferences is Language and adaptability.

Pragmatics studies language as a variable and dynamic resource for human communicative behavior. The notion of adaptability is meant to capture this perspective. As a special theme for this conference, it may be used to highlight two dimensions of language use and pragmatic research:
1.      The dynamic interplay between structural choices and context in the everyday practice of interactional language use, conversational or otherwise, private or public, informal or institutional.
2.      The societal functioning of everyday language use in the wider context of linguistic diversity and change.
Both dimensions may be addressed at the same time:,societal multilingualism may be studied as a resource for structural choices in face-to-face interactional contexts. They may be approached developmentally, diachronically, neuro/psychologically, or even in evolutionary terms. Finally, how is the practice of linguistic pragmatics itself affected by changes in available research tools and technologies?

Konferencijoje pranešimą skaitys:

• Anna Ruskan. Argumentative contexts of use of inferential markers in Lithuanian.

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Tryras, 2015 m. gegužės 27-31

The University of Trier has the honour of organizing the 36th Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English in Trier, Germany.

The theme chosen for the conference is: Words, Words, Words – Corpora and Lexis.
The programme will consist of full papers, work-in-progress reports, a poster session, software demonstrations, as well as invited plenary talks. The following speakers have agreed to give plenaries at the conference:

Kate Burridge, Monash University
Thomas Herbst, Erlangen University
Graeme Trousdale, Edinburgh University
Edmund Weiner, Oxford University / OED

Konferencijoje pranešimą skaitys:

• Aurelija Usonienė ir Audronė Šolienė. Reportive evidentials in English and Lithuanian: what kind of correspondence?

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Madridas,  2014 m. spalio 6 – 8

The International Conference on Evidentiality and Modality in European Languages 2014 (EMEL’14) is organised by the Department of English Philology I (English Language and Linguistics) of the Complutense University of Madrid and the research project EUROEVIDMOD (FFI2011-23181).
The conference aims to cover a broad range of research concerned with the domains of evidentiality and modality, with special interest in empirical work and crosslinguistic studies. Some proposed research areas include:
- Epistemicity: relation between evidentiality and epistemic modality
- Cross-linguistic and typological studies on evidentiality
- Evidential lexical units and constructions and their relation to evidential grammatical markers
- Types of evidentiality: Direct vs. Indirect
- Reported speech and reportative evidentiality
- Epistemic stance and inter/subjectivity in discourse
- Interactional approaches to evidentiality and/or epistemic modality
- Corpus-based studies on evidentiality and/or epistemic modality

Konferencijoje pranešimus skaitys:

• Anna Ruskan. On inferential and reportative evidential markers in Lithuanian newspaper discourse
• Aurelija Usonienė ir Jolanta Šinkūnienė. Potential vs use: revisiting evidential participial constructions in Lithuanian

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Lankasteris, 2014 m. liepos 24 – 26

UCCTS is a biennial international conference which was launched by Richard Xiao in 2008 to provide an international forum for the exploration of the theoretical and practical issues pertaining to the creation and use of corpora in contrastive and translation studies. The conference is hosted by the UCREL research centre, which brings together the Department of Linguistics and English Language with the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster.

Konferencijoje pranešimą skaitys:

• Audronė Šolienė. Modal and post-modal uses of Lithuanian adverbials: evidence from a parallel corpus

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Viena, 2014 m. liepos 4 – 5

The aim of the workshop is twofold: To bring together descriptions of specific constructions used as ECCs and theoretical perspectives on how ECCs can be accounted for in a linguistic model. The assumption is that both theoretical and descriptive approaches will benefit from each other and are necessary for deepening our understanding of ECCs.

Specific topics
- Formal properties of (specific) ECCs: their external and internal syntax, position in the host construction, prosodic realisation
- Functional properties and use of (specific) ECCs in language corpora
- The link of ECCs to their host construction and their interaction with the level of sentence grammar
- Criteria for determining whether a linguistic unit can be identified as extra-clausal
- Distinction of different subtypes
- Historical genesis and possible developmental pathways of ECCs
- Analysis and representation in linguistic models

Konferencijoje pranešimą skaitys:

• Aurelija Usonienė ir Anna Ruskan. On the semantic and functional variation of as-parentheticals in English and Lithuanian

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Notingemas, 2014 m. balandžio 30 – gegužės 4

The theme of the conference is “Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture”. It aims to explore English corpus linguistics and its intersections with other fields, as well as its applications in a range of contexts of language use.

Focus of the conference: corpus and discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and its theoretical implications, diachronic corpus studies, corpora and new media, varieties of English, contrastive linguistics, sociolinguistics, mixed methods approaches in corpus linguistics, corpus stylistics, and corpora in English language education.

Konferencijoje pranešimą skaitys:

• Anna Ruskan. Evidential passive constructions in English and their equivalents in Lithuanian