Happy to announce that our group participates in Searching for Semantic Universals in the Modal Domain project lead by Wataru Uegaki. The project is funded by NWO the programme Internationalisation in the Humanities which aim is to facilitate collaboration between Dutch humanities researchers and their foreign colleagues and to strengthen the formation of international networks. This collaboration extends the research on lexical-semantic universals into a less cultivated domain of modal words, like auxiliaries (e.g., may/must), attitudinal verbs (e.g., believe/know) and evidential particles (e.g., yooda/darou in Japanese). We will organize four workshops in Leiden, Konstanz, Berlin, and Amsterdam. Our group will mostly provide a modeling expertise along the framework outlined in the recent Semantics & Pragmatics paper.
Searching for semantic universals in the modal domain
