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MINICURSOS
MINICURSO 1
Investigating modality from a fieldwork perspective*
Ministrante: Jozina Vander Klok (University of Oslo)
Some of the references we will draw from include the following:
Burton, S. & Matthewson, L. 2015. Targeted construction storyboards in semantic fieldwork. In R. Bochnak & L. Matthewson (Eds.), Semantic Fieldwork Methodology (pp. 135-156). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cinque, G. (1999). Adverbs and Functional Heads. New York: Oxford University Press.
Condoravdi, C. (2002). Temporal interpretation of modals: Modals for the present and for the past. In D. Beaver, S. Kaufmann, B. Clark & L. Casillas (Eds.), The construction of meaning (pp. 59-88). Stanford: CSLI Publications.
Deal, A. R. (2011). Modals without scales. Language 87:559-585.
Hacquard, V. (2011). Modality. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger & P. Portner (Eds.), Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning (pp. 1484-1515). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kratzer, A. (1977). What ‘must’ and ‘can’ must and can mean. Linguistics and Philosophy 1:337-355.
Kratzer, A. (1981). The notional category of modality. In H.-J. Eikemeyer & H. Rieser (Eds.) Words, worlds, and contexts (pp. 38-74). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kratzer, A. (1991). Modality. In D. Wunderlich & A. von Stechow (Eds.), Semantics: An international handbook of contemporary research (pp. 639-650). Berlin: de Gruyter.
Palmer, F. R. (1986). Mood and modality: Cambridge textbooks in linguistics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Portner, P. (2009). Modality. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
Rullmann, H. & Matthewson, L. (2018). Towards a theory of modal-temporal interaction. Language.
Vander Klok, J. (2013). Pure possibility and pure necessity modals in Paciran Javanese. Oceanic Linguistics 52:341-374.
Vander Klok, J. (2014). On the use of questionnaires in semantic fieldwork: A case study on modality. In A. Belkadi, K. Chatsiou & K. Rowan (Eds.), Proceedings of Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 4. London: SOAS.
Vander Klok, J. (To appear.) ‘Exploring modality and temporality through the storyboard Bill vs. the weather.’ Semantic Fieldwork Methods.
Resumo: This mini-course investigates the syntax and semantics of modality from a fieldwork perspective. In the field, modality can be a challenging area of research given its three semantic dimensions: modal force (the expression of possibility or necessity, such as the necessity modal must in English); modal flavour (such as based on a body of rules (deontic) or based on the speaker or the agent’s knowledge or beliefs (epistemic)); and modal strength (such as weak necessity ought or should in English). In addition, the syntactic structure of the modal markers can differ and can play a role in determining its semantic scope.
We will explore a variety of methods with the goal of helping the fieldworker best uncover and analyze how modality is expressed in the language under study. We will cover four main themes on modality, each combined with a fieldwork component or method: (i) an introduction to modality and fieldwork; (ii) documenting and analyzing possibility and necessity modals through the modal questionnaire; (iii) documenting and analyzing modals with different strengths through storyboards and elicitation; (iv) investigating interactions of modality and temporality through storyboards and elicitation.
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*For this minicourse, we suggest the previous reading of the following paper:
Hacquard, Valentine (2011) 'Modality'. In C. Maienborn, K. von Heusinger, and P. Portner (eds.) Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. HSK 33.2 Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 1484-1515.
You can find it here: http://ling.umd.edu/~hacquard/papers/HoS_Modality_Hacquard.pdf
Ministrante: Eduardo Correa Soares (UFSC)
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Resumo: O objetivo deste curso será familiarizar os alunos com o uso da metodologia psicolinguística no trabalho de campo, dando ênfase a alguns aspectos do contato linguístico e do estudo da gramática nessa perspectiva. Mostra-se que a psicolinguística pode oferecer um conjunto de ferramentas crucial para estudar línguas em contato, que pode prover implicações para as teorias gramaticais. Argumenta-se também que trazer a psicolinguística para fora do laboratório contribui ecologicamente para a validação de sua natureza empírica. Discute-se algumas metodologias para estudar alguns fenômenos gramaticais, entre os quais a modalidade. Por fim, apresentamos duas das principais ferramentas para a criação de experimentos controlados, que incluem ferramentas sofisticadas de aleatorização, escalabilidade e apresentação de estímulos — o IbexFarm e o Psychopy.
MINICURSO 2
Psicolinguística Fora da Casinha — Métodos Experimentais na Linguística de Campo ​