Modality and its interfaces with aspectuality, temporality and epistemicity
The informal International Working Group Modalität im Deutschen was founded in 1992. Eleven meetings have been held since then, with the focus of the conference gradually expanding to all Germanic languages and to contrastive perspectives, especially within the Germanic family and between German and other languages. The relationship between epistemic modality and evidentiality, which are now often grouped into one macro-category of epistemicity, has become a recurring topic. The same holds for the interface of modality with aspectuality and temporality.
The 12th meeting of the working group will take place in Paris, at Sorbonne University, on June 5th-6th, 2025.
Paris, Sorbonne Université
5-6 juin 2025
Organisation : Olivier Duplatre (SU, Paris) et Pierre-Yves Modicom (U. Jean Moulin Lyon III, Lyon)
| THURSDAY AM | Modality in the adverbial and adjectival domain |
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9 : 00 Tanja Mortelmans University of Antwerp, Belgium |
Modaladverbien der epistemischen Möglichkeit im Vergleich: ENG perhaps/maybe, DE vielleicht/womöglich/möglicherweise, NDL misschien |
| 9 : 30 Olivier Duplâtre
Sorbonne University, France |
Is unbedingt a modal word? |
| Coffee Break | |
| 10: 30 Eva Schultze Berndt & Martina Faller
University of Manchester, Great-Britain |
An apprehensive use of German nachher |
| 11 : 00 Carolin Reinert, Cecile Meier & Helmut Weiß
University of Frankfurt, Germany |
Force variability and aspect in German adjectival suffixes |
| Lunch | |
| THURSDAY PM | 1. Variationist perspectives |
| 14: 30 Topias Aalto
University of Turku, Finland |
Daz die engele niht liehter dorften sín. Epistemisch deutbare Belege des mittelhochdeutschen Modalverbs durfen |
| 15: 00 Philipp Pfeifer & Elisabeth Scherr
University of Graz, Austria |
Gründe für Vermutungen. Die Ausbildung epistemischer Bedeutungsvarianten von dürfen |
| 15 : 30 Caterina Saracco
University of Milan, Italy |
Germanic-Romance language contact in the Western Alps: modal verbs and modality in the titsch language of Gressoney between purism and current usage |
| Coffee break | |
| 2. Specialized discourse | |
| 16: 30 Lejla Zejnilovic
University Mediterranean Podgorica. Montenegro |
Context-induced certainty: an empirical study of lexical exponents of propositional modality in juridical setting |
| 17 : 00 Irina Schipowa (online)
Moscow Pedagogical State University, Russia |
Diskursmodalität der Bundestagsreden |
| FRIDAY AM | Testing modality |
| 9: 30 Nadine Dietrich
University of Edinburgh, Great-Britain |
Using dynamic modality as a stress test for the standard conception of modality |
| Coffee break | |
| 10: 30 Patrick Duffley
University Laval, Canada |
Subjective vs. objective modality: a perfectly non-linguistic distinction in English |
| 11 : 00 Jiqiang Lu & Kristin Davidse
KU Leuven, Belgium |
Modal values and NEG-raising in I think, I’m sure and there is a/some chance |
| Lunch | |
| FRIDAY PM | Temporality, modality, subordination |
| 15: 00 Anna Socka
University of Gdansk, Poland |
Zum Schicksalsfutur im Deutschen und Polnischen |
| 15: 30 Giuliano Armenante
University of Potsdam, Germany |
(Non-)Sequence of Tense in West Germanic: Case reopened |
| Coffee break | |
| 16: 30 Anna Averina (online)
Moscow Region State University, Russia |
Мodale Interpretation der Tempusformen im Deutschen und im Russischen |
| 17: 00 Olga Kostrova (online)
Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, Russia |
Modalität der Äußerungen mit reduzierten Nebensätzen im Deutschen und im Russischen |
| Conclusion |