Evidentiality, Modality and Corpus Linguistics
Theme session - Madrid 7 October 2014
The theme session will take place during the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EVIDENTIALITY AND MODALITY IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES 2014 (EMEL’14)
Madrid 6-8 October 2014
Convenors
Dylan Glynn: dglynn (at) univ-pari8.fr
Paola Pietrandrea: paolapietrandrea (at) gmail.com
Programme 7 October
12.00-12.30
Introduction to the workshop. Dylan Glynn and Paola Pietrandrea
12.30-13.00
Annotating modality cross-linguistically: theory, practice, problems. Elisa Ghia, Caterina Mauri, Malvina Nissim, Paola Pietrandrea, Andrea Sanso'.
13.00-13.30
Sources of modality and ‘need to’. Ilse Depraetere and Rafael Salkie.
13.30 ---- LUNCH ----
15.00-15.30
Towards a usage-based categorization of modality in Slavic. Dagmar Divjak, Nina Szymor, Steven Clancy, Ol’ga Lyashevskaya, Maria Ovsjannikova, Mateusz-Milan Stanojević and Anita Peti-Stantić.
15.30-16.00
The annotation of modality and evidentiality in English-Spanish comparable and parallel texts. Juan Rafael Zamorano, Marta Carretero & Julia Lavid.
16.00-16.30
Epistemic Stance in Journalistic Discourse Genres: A cross-linguistic study. Juana Marin Arrese.
16.30-17.00 ---- COFFEE BREAK ----
17.00-17.30
Analysing perspective in polyphonic texts in English: The problems of annotating viewpoint in popularization article. Izaskun Elorza and Miriam Pérez-Veneros.
17.30-18.00
Evidentiality and communicative purpose – the Spanish hearsay marker dizque and its link to epistemic modality. Philipp Dankel.
18.00-18.30
Operationalisation and robust manual annotation of non-observable usage-features. An exploratory study in English and Polish. Dylan Glynn & Karolina Krawczak.